15 of the Most Useful Phrasal Verbs in English

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i’m going to cover 15 phrasal verbs

for work and for school i’ve chosen

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

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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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okay um i don’t see other questions so

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

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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