15 of the Most Useful Phrasal Verbs in English
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i’m going to cover 15 phrasal verbs
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15 phrasal verbs that i want to
introduce
and my goal for today’s lesson is to
look at the
prepositions that we use with phrasal
verbs i know a lot of learners struggle
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there’s a lot of text we’re going to go
through
the meaning of each verb we’re going to
look at the
prepositions that are used and we’re
going to look at some example sentences
so please send me your examples in
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take a look the first one here let’s
begin with this first one
catch on to catch on you can use this
at work or at school to catch on
means to become aware of something
so we use this when we’re talking about
like secrets
or when we’re talking about things that
we are learning
gradually that are a little bit
difficult for us
for example this example sentence here
when i was a kid
i stayed up late to use the computer
my parents caught on quickly so this
caught on this is the past tense form of
catch-on my parents caught on quickly
means
my parents quickly realized or my
parents quickly
became aware i was staying up late
to use the computer so to catch on
to something you might also see in this
case
caught on refers to the previous
sentence
you may also see it used with catch on
to catch on to something catch on to
a topic means to become aware of
a topic or to gradually learn how to do
something related to that topic
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next one is figure out figure out is
very useful i use figure out
all the time to figure out
means to solve a difficult problem
or like a mysterious situation you don’t
know
what’s happening in that situation and
uh you need like to get details so this
is good when you are
trying to understand like how people
work together
or you’re trying to understand some kind
of
complex relationship you can use figure
out to describe that
some examples i finally figured out
the answer to my problem i finally
figured out the answer to my problem
so figure out in past tense is figured
figured i finally figured out
the answer to my problem
so please be careful uh some
some learners a common mistake i see
with this
figure out does not mean find it does
not mean
find it does not mean discover
to figure out is used when we
think about something for a long time
we try to solve a problem we try to
solve a puzzle
and after thinking about it for a while
then we’d like learn the answer or we
gradually understand something we solve
a problem
so you cannot use figure out to mean
find okay
uh what does aware mean so to become
aware of something means to like to
realize
something usually gradually uh glorious
on facebook says we need to figure out a
solution for this problem
perfect perfect khan maljeet says i’ve
just figured out how to solve this error
in
my app christian on youtube says like
figure it out yes figure it out
with like this expression figure it out
is used as a
command sometimes which means solve it
so please figure it out
figure it out means please solve it okay
uh all right good let’s go to the next
one then
uh let’s go to bring up to bring up
this use of bring up uh the one
i want to focus on in this lesson is
to introduce a topic of conversation
to introduce a topic of conversation so
to
bring something up means
to start talking about something
in a conversation for example
don’t bring up any difficult
topics in the meeting don’t bring up any
difficult topics in the meeting
this means don’t introduce anything
that’s difficult or maybe that’s
sensitive
in the meeting so bring up
can be used to mean this yes you may
have heard
bring up used to mean raised like
raising kids like i was brought
up in this country we can also use
bring up in work and in school and in
conversation
uh related situations to mean
introducing
a topic of conversation to bring up one
more example
my best friend brought up an
awful memory my best friend brought up
an
awful memory so past tense here
bring up becomes brought up in past
tense
my my best friend brought up an awful
memory this means in the conversation in
a conversation
my best friend talked about uh
something that was a bad memory for me
okay fantastic uh i don’t see any other
questions so let’s continue on
the next one is go through go through
to go through for this first use
i want to focus on to go through means
to work on something
step by step to work on something step
by step
so we use go through a lot
for large projects for example
an essay so a paper your writing
or maybe a big project proposal
something with many details we need to
go through each part so that means we
need to look at each part
step by step until we finish to go
through
so for example let’s go through your
proposal
after lunch let’s go through your
proposal after lunch that means let’s
look at all the details step by step
of your proposal okay one more
past tense example i went through
my report with my manager
i went through my report with my
manager so with this one i want to talk
about a common
versus issue so uh sometimes some
learners ask what is the difference
between
go through and
work through so we can use these two
go through versus work through that’s
what i’m writing here in this board go
through
versus work through this is maybe a
point to consider
go through versus work through we can
use them both of them
can be used to have this meaning to work
on something
step by step we can use go through and
work through to do this
however go through has another meaning
it means to experience struggles
emotional struggles usually and
to overcome those emotional struggles so
to go through a difficult experience you
might hear
go through used in that way work
through has somewhat of a similar
meaning but to work through
something means to actively
try to improve a difficult situation
like he worked through
some difficult things so there are some
nuances there are some little
differences in how we use
go through and work through in terms of
emotional or like difficult situations
okay uh like likas sorry on youtube says
can we use
go through like going inside of
something yes absolutely there is
another use of go through which means
like to pass through like to go through
a tunnel
for example yes absolutely absolutely
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let’s look at the last one here
read up on to read up on you’ll notice i
have this on
here we often see this used with on read
up
on topic to read up on something
means to refresh your memory or
like to gain knowledge about something
by reading so what’s the difference
between
read and read up on when you
read it’s like um it’s kind of just very
neutral it’s just a
an everyday activity to read a book or
to read
about a topic but when we
when we use the expression read up on
it’s like
a quick refresher or we’re just quickly
getting some
key information that’s the feeling with
read up on
maybe we do it to prepare for a
presentation
we would use read up on topic to express
that
just to refresh something okay
uh so some examples kind of hard to see
sorry let me
fix that it’s a limited space here i’ll
move this up okay
so uh to read up on my example you
should read up
on forest safety before
you take a long hiking trip you should
read up on forest
safety before you take a long hiking
trip
so this read up on
followed by your topic in this case
forest safety forest safety
so please read up on forest safety
before you take
a long hiking trip on facebook raquel
says i read up
on english books every week okay that’s
a situation where
read is the best i read english books
every week
you use read up on to talk about a
topic not about the thing you are
reading
so we do not say i read up on magazines
nope or i read up on books
nope we would say i read up on
english grammar every week you can use a
topic
but not the type of thing you read
something you are
refreshing your brain about
khanwaljit says you should read up on
the basics
of the programming language before you
start a project
good uh read up on your presentation
topic okay very nice
janab says does read up have the same
meaning of
brush up ah they can be
used yes so the question uh is
read up versus brush up to read up
on something versus to brush up on
something
to read has a pretty good hint in it
yeah
to read up on something means to refresh
your knowledge of something
by reading yeah to brush up on something
means you can refresh your knowledge by
doing an activity so not just
reading but for example ah i need to
brush up on my cooking skills
means to refresh your knowledge by
cooking
chris solitty sorry if i said your name
wrong on youtube can you use
reading up yes you can use it to talk
about a
current uh progressing action so like
right now
i’m reading up on i’m reading up on
uh english grammar or i’m reading up on
this topic
yes to talk about something you are
doing now
okay so again choose the topic with
read up read it all right fantastic so
that’s group one
let’s finish there uh
raquel nice yes i read up on
superlatives you got it you got it very
nice job very nice job
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today’s topic is 15 phrasal verbs for
work
and school if you missed part of the
lesson it is being recorded
okay um someone asked a question pavel
on youtube says can you separate phrasal
verbs sorry
can you separate phrasal verbs and put
pronouns in between them
sometimes yes sometimes i will try to
uh talk about when you can do that
okay so let’s continue to part two i
will show you
today’s vocabulary list again you can
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um so let’s continue to group two i just
talked about group one
these words here now we’re going to talk
about
group two group two the second uh
group of vocabulary words so let’s go
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one
let’s go to keep up keep up to keep
up with and you might also hear to keep
up
on something usually with
but some people use on here what does
keep up
mean to keep up means to make progress
at a desired pace so we can use this
at work or at school to mean
we are continuing our work or we are
continuing our studies
at the at the pace we want so our
teacher wants
this pace or our boss wants this pace
for our work
and we can keep up means we can
continue at that pace so
some examples he’s not keeping up
with his work he’s not keeping up with
his work
means now he’s not continuing
his work at the pace or at the speed
we want he’s not keeping up with his
work
one more you run so fast i can’t keep
up you run so fast i can’t keep up so
that means
i can’t match your speed you are too
fast
for me so we can use this
for like our uh studies and for our work
and we can use this for like physical
activities to
to keep up with something someone says
do not keep up with the kardashians ah
that’s funny to keep up with uh that’s a
great example though that’s a great
example to keep
up with someone can also be used
to mean to get all the updates
about something to keep up with a person
refers to getting everybody’s updates so
like if you follow
if you follow someone online or if you
follow
like your favorite tv show or um
whatever like on instagram or twitter
you can keep
up with that person you get all of their
updates
okay nice example sentence that’s very
funny
okay let’s go to the next one the next
one is very
very common and very very helpful it is
turn in
turn in to turn in means to submit
to submit so we use turn in for like
paperwork for our homework assignments
to turn something in this is an example
of a phrasal verb we can split
so let’s look at the examples here first
i turned in my essay this morning
i turned in my essay this morning so
this means i
submitted my essay this morning i turned
in again this is the past tense
form another example
this one i’ve split it so split means
turn and
in are separated by a word here
please turn your report in
by tomorrow please turn your report in
by tomorrow so this means the same thing
please submit
your report so what’s the difference why
should i say
turn your report in or can i say turn in
your report
they’re both fine they’re both fine to
use
so uh it’s just totally up to you you
can choose
uh avi on youtube says how do i know
when to use
with and on uh up here with this one
this one generally usually we use with
here i included on just because you may
hear
some people use on in this expression
usually we use with so i would recommend
to use
with here okay uh
jean or john carlos on youtube says does
turn
in have the same meaning as drop off or
hand in
uh turn in and hand in mean the same
thing yes to turn in and to hand in
to drop off however means something
different
drop off means to quickly stop somewhere
and leave something so drop off
can be used for paperwork yes but it
doesn’t have
the official feeling of like an
assignment or homework of some kind
it’s like maybe i borrowed something
from a friend like i need to
return my friend’s pen i go to their
desk and i drop off the pen
so it’s not like an assignment in that
way i just need to give
someone something turn in and hand in
are like official submissions of
something
okay other questions
i don’t see uh someone on facebook i
cannot read your name sorry says i
turned in my english test this morning
very nice
please use past tense there yeah i
turned in
my english test this morning
uh fantastic ooh nelly says can we use
this phrasal verb in
virtual classes yes yes you do not have
to use this for
just physical objects great question you
can use this
for digital project submission so when
you
email your teacher or when you email
someone’s like some kind of official
paperwork
you can also use turn in like i turned
in my assignment
to my teacher you can you can uh
i think we tend we probably use it more
in
physical like real life situations but
you can use it
in digital classes too okay fantastic
thanks for your questions let’s continue
to the next one
kick off to kick off to kick off means
to begin something
with excitement to begin something with
excitement like a project
or an event for example
we kicked off the event with an
inspiring
speech we kicked off the event with an
inspiring speech
or let’s kick off the new year with
a party so you can imagine
kick off means like start yeah
start but the difference between start
and kick
off is kickoff is like excited about
that thing we’re enthusiastic
we want to do something kind of big we
want to create a party
create an event we want to launch
something with our to show our
excitement
that’s the difference a key difference
with kickoff and
start okay uh nightbot oh yes
uh silva on youtube has a great uh
a slight difference it says nightbot
kicked off a person in the chat
to kick off is different from kick ouch
this is a question i wanted
i hope to get to later but we’ll talk
about it now to kick off
versus to kick out uh kick
off which i just talked about means to
start
versus kick out this is our next this is
the verses for this group
kick off versus kick out so to kick off
means to start something with excitement
yeah like you’re kicking off the
uh a football game or a soccer game like
everybody’s excited
when you kick the ball the first time
kick
out however means to force someone
out of a place so like if you cause
trouble in a restaurant or a bar they
may
kick you out remove you from the
restaurant or bar
or in a chat room the moderator or the
robot
may kick you out of the chat room so to
kick
out means to remove someone from a place
i did not include it in today’s list
because
we usually we don’t use kick out too
much in work and in school
hopefully but uh that’s the difference
between kick off and
kick out is kick off used for fighting
uh i get well we do is just
kick to talk about attacking someone to
kick
someone you we don’t really use kick off
uh in this way with that okay very nice
job
uh lab cons on your facebook says i kick
my son out of the room okay i kicked
maybe past tense i kicked my son out of
the room
don’t forget lots of people are sending
uh examples here
make sure a past tense is kicked we
kicked off or i kicked
my son out of the room okay uh can i say
let’s kick it off yes absolutely let’s
kick it off
fantastic okay uh yeah lots of you past
tense don’t forget your past tense here
many many
uh chatters all right let’s go to the
next one
drop out of drop out of means to quit
school or quit a competition you need to
use
drop out of of so don’t forget this
little thing
okay so examples i had to drop
out of college i had to drop out of
college means i had to quit
college what’s the difference between
drop out of and
quit with drop out of it sounds like
something i wanted to do or i had a goal
but for some reason i couldn’t continue
or i didn’t want to continue so i
removed myself
from that goal or from my plan
to drop out of has this feeling quit
doesn’t have
that same feeling another example past
tense dropped dropped he dropped out
of the race for health reasons
he dropped out of the race for health
reasons so
again he removed himself from
the race or from a race for health
reasons so that means his health wasn’t
so great so he decided to remove himself
from the race my friend dropped out of
high school good
good okay um
to drop out of uh some bhavna says i
drop
out of this chat from this channel so
drop out again
drop out we use for things that that are
kind of
like a big goal so education goal or
uh like a personal like marathon a big
race
a competition so we use it in those
situations
university we don’t really use it on so
much on small
everyday things okay
uh sushi says drop out of is it kind of
the same meaning as give up no
to give up is like i’ve tried i’m so
tired i quit
to drop out of something it’s like
you’ve tried for a long time
and maybe you don’t want to stop
actually when you give up you decide i’m
done
i want to stop kind of with drop out of
it’s like you had a goal
and now you have to you have to quit
so it’s kind of the feeling there with
drop out of something
you don’t want to stop generally to give
up is like i’m tired i quit
i’m done like i’m not going to try
anymore
with drop out of and i feel like in many
cases
we still want to try but we cannot
all right uh i dropped out of the
seminar okay
could be it could be uh if you were
participating
in the seminar as a speaker okay uh
some of okay someone says i dropped out
of my job we do not use it for
everyday life situations again a key
point
with drop out of is we are working
towards a specific goal
like i continue to use the example of
university
or competitions like sports competitions
to drop out of a race or to drop out of
a contest for a project you’re
developing
there’s some kind of personal goal there
all right let’s go to the last one
clock in and clock out this one i
thought would be
uh very helpful for many people to clock
in and to clock out
means to record the time you begin and
end work so for example oh no
i forgot to clock out i forgot to clock
out means i forgot to record the time i
finished work
and she clocked in at 9 00 am
so to clock in means to start work to
clock out
means to leave clock in clock out also
you may hear
a clock off instead of clock ouch
they’re both fine they’re both the same
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says can i say i dropped out of my kung
fu
classes because i broke my foot yeah
great example great example like i
dropped out of my kung flu classes
okay yes like you’re working towards
some kind of competitive goal there
really
very nice very nice okay onward
uh let’s go to the last part uh real
quick i will show you one more time
today’s verb list i have to finish
quickly though oh my gosh
so this is today’s 15 phrasal verbs list
uh and we’ve talked about some other
bonus verbs ooh
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three for today
are you ready i am ready okay
let’s look at the last group here last
is
uh clean out let’s start with this one
clean
out to clean out something means to
remove
everything inside a space you remove
everything inside a space to clean it in
order to clean it
for example i cleaned
out the refrigerator today that means i
removed everything from the refrigerator
to clean my refrigerator
also clean out your desk before
you go clean out your desk before
you go so that means before you leave
please remove everything from your desk
so if you quit a job for example
okay um all right someone says i cleaned
out my bedroom oh really so you removed
everything from your bedroom
cool okay uh the next one
make up make up so i know many of you
will say is it like makeup that you put
on your face
this is different make up there’s a
space
right here yeah this space to make up
this
is how you know it’s a verb a phrasal
verb and not
the noun like makeup to use on your face
makeup for your face has no space yeah
make
up as a phrasal verb has a space here
this is how you know
so this use i want to talk about is make
up
for or make up with i’ll talk about the
differences
to repair this means to repair a past
relationship with someone we use
makeup with in this case or
it can mean to replace a missed
activity to replace a missed activity
so some examples i made up with
my friend after our fight
this means i repaired my relationship
with my friend
after our fight i made up
with in these cases use with
when you’re talking about repairing a
relationship with someone
use with do not use for in that case it
is incorrect
however in a case like this where you
are talking about replacing
a missed activity use for
for example i’ll make up for my absence
next week i’ll make up for my absence
next week this means
i missed a day of work or school absence
my absence my absence means
i was not at work i was not at school
i’ll
make up for my day i was gone
next week so we are replacing
a missed activity in this case use four
do not use with here
so depending on the meaning you want to
use you need to choose the word that
follows
make up okay
oh yeah there’s another good point on
youtube to make up also means like to
create
as in a story to to create a story
all right time’s going quick uh
alexander says make up is also for
kissing no that is make
out there’s make out and that is not in
today’s verb list
we do we typically don’t need to use
make out at work and at school maybe i
don’t know what you’re doing but
that’s make out to make out we make up
uh to talk about these things all right
let’s go to the next one because i’m
almost out of time oh my gosh
fall behind how appropriate to fall
behind means to become
slower in progress than desired
as in i fell behind on my homework
or we fell behind schedule on our
project we were too
slow in other words i fell behind
past tense fell behind on something
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same comment
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youtube uh
last two quickly get along i think these
are a
couple of nice ones to finish with to
get along means to have a good
relationship with someone to have a good
relationship with someone
for example he didn’t get along with his
co-workers
or i got along with my brother
so this means you have a good
relationship with someone
in the negative it means you do not have
a good relationship with someone to get
along
with someone to get along with someone
finally a good review one to call back
to call back means to return someone’s
phone call to return someone’s phone
call
so can i call you back in 10 minutes or
my client never called me back so this
is one you can split
yeah can i call you back or
uh my client never called me back
so you can use this uh with the person
uh whose call uh you’re talking about
in between the two words all right i
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in today’s lesson how exciting right
uh i have to end very quickly so uh
next week of course i will be back
hooray next week’s lesson
it will be august 19th 10 p.m eastern
standard time
i’m going to talk about how to give your
opinion on food
and drink so this will be a good one for
i think beginner and intermediate
learners in particular i will talk about
some adjectives you can use in these
situations
so we’ll finish there for this week
thank you as always for your awesome
questions and your awesome comments
uh check out the link below the video
for the 35
doc deal and if you have questions send
them to me for our q
and a series i will say goodbye to you
there
so thanks as always enjoy the rest of
your week bye