Phrasal Verbs with Take take out take over take off

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question

this week first question this week comes

from

manjira hi manjira manjira says hi

alicia your lessons are very useful

i have a question about ever and never

i’m a bit confused about using them

for example i never seen and i

ever seen i’m unable to understand

properly

okay yeah let’s review this point so

first of all

never means not ever you can think of it

as like the negative of ever so

we cannot use ever alone to talk about

life experience

we can however use never alone to talk

about life experience

for example if you want to talk about

the mona lisa

you could say i have never seen the mona

lisa

you cannot say however i have ever seen

the mona lisa we cannot do that we can

say

i have seen the mona lisa so please keep

in mind when we use

never and ever we typically put it

together

with present perfect expression so i

have never

for example i have never seen the mona

lisa or i have seen the mona lisa

so we cannot use ever alone in cases

where we use

ever plus the verb we use it in

questions and we use it in full sentence

responses to things

for example have you ever seen the mona

lisa

or the mona lisa is the most famous

painting

i have ever seen in situations like

these we can use

have ever followed by the verb but we

cannot use

ever like i have ever seen we cannot use

that to express

life experience life experience that we

have we can use

i have never seen though so i hope that

this helps you this is a very

very quick introduction to these points

i would recommend

if you want to review this please take a

look at this video on the channel i made

a lesson about using

never and ever and i hope that it can

answer your questions so please have a

look at that

thanks very much for this question all

right let’s move on to your next

question next question

comes from hiro hi hiro hiro says hi

alicia

i take many pictures especially portrait

and nature pictures so

i have a question what’s the difference

between photograph

and photography how should i use these

words great question yeah

photograph first of all photograph is a

countable noun so we can

count photographs images pictures we can

say one photograph

two photographs three photographs a

photograph

is the individual image photography then

refers to the entire activity the

process of

taking pictures editing pictures all of

those things together as a hobby or as

an activity

that is called photography so you can

say i’m interested in

photography and i take lots of

photographs

so keep in mind photography is the

activity

photograph is the result here so

one point that i want to make though is

that we don’t really use the word

photograph so much in everyday

conversation unless we’re talking

to somebody who shares our hobby or

they’re also

in that field typically instead we say

picture instead of photograph so instead

of i like taking photographs you could

say

i like taking pictures i would not use

image so much

image is a much more general word we use

image to talk about like things that you

see

on the internet you know so it can be a

picture but maybe it’s a painting

so an image of a painting image is a

more general word

photograph refers specifically to

something that’s captured by a camera

but we use picture as well to talk about

that more commonly

in everyday conversation so in some

photography

activity photograph one picture i hope

that this helps you

thanks very much for the question okay

let’s move on to your next question

next question comes from uvani amanda hi

uvani

ivani says hi alicia if you can would

you please explain to me

how we can use take out take off

take over and overtake with examples

sure

okay let’s begin with take out to take

out to take

something out means to remove something

from an

indoor location and take it to an

outdoor location so a very common use of

this

is take out the garbage please take out

the garbage

so to take something out of one location

and put it outside that location to take

something out

you might also hear take out used to

mean like

uh to kill someone or like to injure

someone

especially in like action movies or

maybe in like sports

like oh no that soccer player took out

our goalie

so that means that soccer player injured

our goalie so the person in charge of

keeping the goal

or we need to take out this person in an

action movie might mean

we need to kill this person or we need

to remove this person from the situation

so that’s probably a less common one in

everyday everyday english we use take

out to mean remove from a building

usually

your next one was take off to take off

has a couple different meanings as well

to take off can mean remove like with

clothing like i need to take off my

sweater

or please take off your shoes before you

come in the house so to take off

means to remove something as with

clothing or maybe it’s just covering

something

else like take the blanket off the

computer

so it means to remove something usually

clothes or other covering

takeoff can also be used to talk about

aircraft so when a plane

goes from land to flying this process is

called

take off as a noun but when we want to

describe it using a verb we can say

the plane is going to take off to take

off means to

leave the ground as with a plane so take

off has these

two meanings so the next item on your

list was take over

to take over means to gain control of

something

so you might hear this in stories you

might also hear this in business like

company a

took over company b in past tense that

means company a

gained control of company b to take over

something or maybe my work is taking

over my life

means my work is gaining control of my

life

so to take over means to gain control

finally

the expression overtake so overtake

means to

pass someone or something else

especially in like a competition

or in a race so for example uh

i was overtaken in the race by another

runner so that means somebody else

passed me in a race so that was a

passive form

or you could use something like uh we

need to overtake the competition next

year so that means we need to pass

the competition in the year ahead so to

overtake is

not quite a phrasal verb to overtake is

one word

on its own but it does use take in there

yes so i hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question

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