20 More Essential Phrasal Verbs in English
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verbs so I’ve chosen 20 phrasal verbs
that are very very common very
frequently used and we’re going to talk
about what they mean first and then add
some examples of how to use them perfect
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first group of phrasal verbs the first
group of phrasal verbs there’s 20 but
there are some words some expressions
that have more than one meaning so we
have a lot to do I’m going to slow down
my speaking of it now so let’s take a
look first one I talked about find out
last week a bit in our common idioms
lesson so maybe you remember this if you
joined us last week find out to find out
means to discover to discover or like to
learn something especially after
research especially after a long time
looking or trying to find something we
use find out to mean discover but it’s
used in everyday speech if you use
discover it’s correct grammatically but
it sounds a little too like stiff it
sounds a little too formal for everyday
speech so use find out for example my
parents found out I failed the test so
found out here is the past tense form of
find out this sentence means my parents
discovered I failed the test
so find out can be replaced with
discover or learned but it has this
feeling of something you learned or
something you discovered after research
or after trying for some time okay on to
the next one another review if you
watched us if you watched our live
stream last week is set up set up set up
has a lot of different meanings I’m
going to cover one basic one in this
lesson but it does have many other
meanings for this lesson I’m going to
focus on to create so to set up can mean
or very commonly means to create to
create or last week I talked about using
setup to mean to put together like
putting together the parts of something
here let’s focus on using setup to mean
create so for example let’s set up a
team for our new project so like let’s
create a team for our new project okay
some examples are coming in from you
about found out someone said I found out
my keys ah we usually use found out as I
said for something we discover or
something we learned so find and find
out are quite different we use find out
for like information generally like
we’re looking we’re researching
something so we took we typically we
don’t use find out for objects use find
for objects I found my keys I found my
marker I found out some information
Rodian has a good one I found out that
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says my parents found out that I got 89
and n 89 on the test
I got 89 points on the test instead of
scores so points 89 points there okay
send along your setup sentences to when
you have a chance let’s go to this one
makeup makeup so please be careful make
up these are two separate words yeah as
a phrasal verb make and up are separate
when you want to talk about the stuff
that people put on their face to change
their appearance you know like lip color
eye color that make up makeup so there’s
no space here between make end up if you
want to talk about like face stuff
things that people change their face
with use makeup know
to refer to this phrasal verb make and
up are separate to make up to make up to
make up something means to do a missed
activity to do a missed activity so this
is very common in school and in work
situations to make up something to make
up something it can mean it can mean to
do a missed activity as in this sentence
I have to make up for a day I missed
last week I have to make up for a day I
missed last week one big point here I
have to make up for I have to make up
for
and then here after this for will be a
noun phrase explaining the activity you
did not participate in but you’re
required to participate in so for
example in this case if you were sick
yesterday and you didn’t go to school or
you didn’t go to work but you have a
responsibility to attend you can say I
have to make up for a day I have to make
up for a day I missed so that means you
have some responsibility to do an
activity you missed this is one sense of
make up to make up to do something
you’re required to do that you missed
you will also hear however make up used
to mean to create an idea like to create
a story like to lie in other words like
to make up a story about something you
may also hear make up used to do that
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one the next one is carry out to carry
out so again this phrasal verb has a
couple different senses of course there
is the physical meaning like to carry
like carry meaning like take an object
out of the frame in this case I’d like
to carry something out means to remove
something from its place yes but this
sense of carry out is
to do or to execute to carry something
out in terms of like a concept or a
policy and agreement
so you’ll see carryout used in in
business situations or maybe school
University policy situations it might be
in contracts in agreements in news
articles about company activities such a
caring out means to do or to execute to
execute here may be another good
vocabulary word to execute does not mean
kill in this case to execute is a formal
word which means like to to do something
or to put into practice are another way
to say that might be to do the thing
that was planned usually for policies or
agreements so to execute or to carry out
to carry out so carry out does have a
couple of different meanings I wanted to
talk about this one to do or to execute
because it’s maybe not quite as easy to
understand as physically carrying
something out so for example we
successfully carried out the product
launch we successfully carried out the
product launch so casually we could say
we successfully did the product launch
or we successfully launched the product
so carried out has this feeling of
something a little more professional
it’s a little bit more businesslike in
some cases so this is past tense carry
out becomes carried out carried out we
carried out the product launch so this
is not I mean we remove the product
launch
it means we did the product launch
according to our plan according to our
plan okay some questions are coming and
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he says we decided to carry out the plan
good yeah exactly exactly
Krista
says the president needs a diplomat to
carry out his foreign policy perfect
great example sentence so like a
government situation an official
situation next one next one
uh ge ge sorry on Facebook says the
camping was carried out last week ok
grammatically correct grammatically
correct but the situation camping is
kind of a casual activity and we use
carry out with a business professional
or like like University situation so it
feels like there’s a little mismatch
there so grammatically great but maybe
use it in a situation that’s a little
like more businesslike and then it’s
good ok let’s go on to the next one the
next one is look down look down so to
look down obviously there is the literal
maybe easy to understand the meaning of
look down which is to use your eyes and
look this direction like to look down at
paper or like to look down at my phone
there is this meaning of course however
to look down on someone or like maybe to
look down on something as well means to
consider someone as being in a lower
social position than you so for example
if we imagine like your head you have
like a boss employee situation this is
maybe easier to see here’s the boss in
this situation employee so for in this
example sentence if I say the boss looks
the boss looks down on the employees
would mean the boss in this case sees
the employees as lower than him or her
so hopefully in many situation your boss
sees people as equal but in this case to
look down to look down on someone means
to consider this other person as being
lower socially having lower social
status so in other words this person
thinks they’re pretty great and the
other people are not so great so we use
look down on someone this is another key
here so look down on please use the
preposition on before your noun phrase
here so someone looks down on someone
else or another group of people on is
the preposition we use so keep that in
mind for this use a great point Muhammad
on YouTube says look down the solution
is under your feet if you want to use
the literal like to physically look in a
down direction at something we use the
preposition at so please look down at
your phone look down at something for
like a physical object or look down on a
person look down on a person so the
preposition does change the preposition
changes okay
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Vincent on Facebook says looking down on
someone can also mean that they do not
approve yeah I kind of can’t have that
meaning for sure as well all right let’s
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this one just because I have four groups
today instead of three because there’s a
lot of lot to talk about so I’ll just
kind of take a break open up open up -
open up means to share emotions to share
emotions so when we use an example
sentence like this like he opened up
about his past it means he shared
emotions about his past he shared maybe
something difficult to share or he
shared something that was maybe
difficult in the past or like
emotionally challenging so to open up to
open up
yes to open up can mean like for example
like a book you know if you have a book
your teacher might say like please
open up your book so this motion but
when you’re talking about emotions so in
like you know relationship talks or like
family talks friendship talks when
someone starts to share emotions or
share difficult things we use open up to
describe
that he opened up in this case
past-tense about something so you can
introduce the topic here in this case
his past so the past means things that
happened before yeah he opened up about
his past or maybe you could say it’s
really difficult to convince her to open
up to open up okay let’s go on to the
next keep up keep up to keep up means to
maintain to maintain this is a very
general meaning of keep up so maybe
you’ve heard from teachers or coaches or
maybe I’ve said it on this channel like
keep it up keep it up so that means
maintain like continue in other words
keep up something keep up something you
might hear it in a situation like I
can’t I can’t keep up with this pace so
pace means like speed especially in like
a race or maybe in your office if
everything happens very very quickly you
can talk about the speed of something
the speed of your work with pace I can’t
keep up with this pace means I can’t
maintain this pace in other words
another way to say it is this is too
fast for me I can’t keep up with this
pace so another point here please use
keep up I can’t have my marker keep up
with keep up with noun phrase I can’t
keep up with you so if you’re like
running a race and the other person is
faster than you you might say ah slow
down I can’t keep up with you I can’t
keep up with your pace so can’t keep up
with something to keep up with something
keep up with the news is another thing
too alright onward I don’t see questions
so I’ll do one more and then we’ll take
a short break last for now is reach out
reach out to reach out so yes reach out
to reach for something means like to try
to
take something to try to grab something
that is far away like you’re reaching
this motion is reaching and we can
describe this as reaching out to like
Elisha reached out with her hand yeah
that’s fine but to reach out as you
might see in business emails means to
start communication with someone so you
might see a sentence like this I’ve
received I receive emails like this it
says I’m reaching out I’m reaching out
to ask if you would like to attend our
event so this is a formal invitation
sentence so in other words I am
communicating with you or I’m starting
communication with you to ask if you
want to come to our event but this is a
formal way to say that to reach out to
someone means you start contacting them
you start communicating with them so you
might receive this in a business email
and I’ve used the progressive or the
continuous form here this is also very
common I am reaching out means with this
email I am starting communication with
you so you might see this you then
progress over continuous form quite a
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one is cut off cut off - cut off - cut
off something means to stop providing
something so yes we can use cut off like
with hair like to cut off a lot of hair
means like physically to cut something
off but here to stop providing something
is like to this motion like you stop
something that was continuing we use cut
off a lot with money so you’ll hear it a
lot in government and business
conversations for example the company
cut off our advertising budget the
company cut off our advertising budget
that means the company stopped giving us
money for advertising but cut off is a
little less direct so we might use cut
off with budget instead of directly
saying like they don’t give us money
anymore it sounds a little bit more I
guess professional so to cut off to cut
off and past tense as well cut remains
cut so you have to understand based on
texts okay Eric asks cut-off point is it
correct well correct yes I mean in that
cutoff point is a phrase yes a cut-off
point means the point at which something
stops okay on to this one take back take
back to take something back again this
has multiple meanings more than one
meaning to take back like a product
means to return a product to a store yes
but this sense means to take something
previously offered or given so for
example if I give you this marker I
don’t have anyone to give it to but if I
give you this and I decide later no that
was wrong I’m gonna take it back so I
gave it to you before but I’ve decided
I’m going to take it back so I we used
take back to talk about that for an
object yes but we also use it when we
reflect on our past words our past
comments so if I say something negative
about my colleague which I would not do
my colleagues feel lovely if I say
something bad about my colleague or
someone that I know and I think oh I
should not have said that I take it back
that means I want to take my words back
so in other words that comment is no
longer true for me in a sentence we
would say she took back all the negative
things she said about the company she
took back all the negative things she
said about the company so that means
like she reflected and she decided no
that’s not true anymore I don’t want
that to be like my opinion I don’t want
everyone to think that’s my opinion
alrighty onward time is running out as
always I talk too much I fear too much
oh my gosh okay let’s go to the next one
the next one is payoff to pay off to pay
off something this is another expression
useful for money talks to pay off
something means to pay all debt so if
you have a credit card or a student loan
for example you can use you can use
off to talk about the process of paying
the process of giving money back for
your credit card or for your loan so we
use pay off to talk about the end point
for our debt so for example I finally
paid off my credit card I finally paid
off my credit card means I finally at
last I finally paid all the money I owed
for my credit card so at last I’m
finished paying it or you could say I
finally paid off my student loans that
means it’s finished it’s done so
past-tense paid off paid off Giovanni on
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take back what you said about Tom good
example nice example dramatic okay let’s
go to the next one which is call out to
call out call out again a couple
different meanings we can use call out
like to mean to like call loudly to get
someone’s attention like hey to call out
for someone here though call out is used
to mean to mention bad behavior so for
example we called him out for his rude
comments you’ll notice call and out we
can split this phrase over we have the
person we are pointing out in the middle
of this phrase over we called him out
for his rude comments that means we
pointed out he made rude comments and we
we told other people about it so to call
someone out means to mention their bad
behavior like to make their bad behavior
public we don’t really use call out for
positive things like hey like let’s call
her out for her great achievements we
don’t use it in this way we use call
someone out to refer to a negative thing
negative behavior a nightmare and
YouTube says payoff can also mean to
bribe yes that is correct that is
correct I chose not to include that here
because space and time okay let’s go on
to this one turn down my gosh 10
okay turn down means to refuse to turn
down something means to refuse so we use
this a lot for offers for opportunities
professional opportunities school
opportunities whatever
for example she turned down the job
offer she turned down the job offer
means she refused the job offer or in
this case decline is also okay so
decline refused turned down these all
mean say no to to say no to something so
you can turn down a date you can turn
down a drink you can turn down a coffee
whatever you can say turn down to mean
say no to something to take to say no to
something is to turn down
all-righty time no time so run out to
run out as in to run out of time so to
run out means to no longer have enough
of something to no longer have enough of
something in my case I always run out of
time on live streams because I talk too
much
so to run out of something means you
have a lot of something and overtime
with time like you give those things to
other people and after a while
suddenly you have no more so we describe
that moment as running out of something
so in this case I just ran out of PDFs I
have no more so to no longer have enough
of something means at one point you had
enough but now you do not have enough so
to run out of something refers to that
point where you don’t have enough of
something anymore I always run out of
time in live streams or we ran out of
drinks hours before the party ended so
again we had enough at the start and now
we don’t ok um on to next one cuz again
next one is bring a pouch you might see
bring about in the news a lot I wanted
to include this here because it is kind
of a strange expression that’s not so
easy to understand immediately to bring
about means to cause to cause some
in my example sentence we hope to bring
about positive changes in our community
we hope to bring about positive changes
in our community means we hope to cause
positive changes so this one yes it is
commonly used but you hear it more in
like I feel like in speeches and maybe
in like plans about the future or you
might hear it in like history
discussions too like this change brought
about such and such in the community so
to bring about means to to cause
something to cause something
okie-dokie I don’t see any questions so
I’m going to continue on I am going to
try to finish in five minutes very sorry
okay step back step back is the next one
to step back yes does mean physically to
take a step in a backwards direction yes
we do have this but we also have this
idea for concept so we can think of
stepping back conceptually so stepping
back in in like a plan or stepping back
in a process for example let’s step back
and think about this carefully this is
something you might hear in a meeting so
if you hear the sentence or if you see
the sentence because someone says let’s
step back and think about this carefully
do not take a step back like this is not
a literal expression it means let’s in
our minds stop at this point thinking
about the plan and go back one step so
what was the previous step or what was
the last thing the previous thing we
thought about so in other words take a
moment go back in your mind in your
thought process in your thinking and
think about this so this one please be
careful there’s in terms of concepts in
terms of your thinking and physical
alright let’s go to this one get through
to get through to get through thoughts
to get through something means to endure
to endure like a challenge or a struggle
so this we use this phrasal verb
talk about situations where there’s
something difficult we have to do
usually for a long time so it’s like I’m
I have a long paper I have to write I
have an essay or a really long meeting
or I have to study for a test for a long
time we use get through to talk about
the process of doing that and finishing
successfully so this is what the verb in
door means to endure for example our
team successfully got through a busy
summer our team successfully got through
a busy summer so that means the summer
was very very busy and then we finished
it successfully we were able to endure
that we use get through past tense got
through got through on YouTube the
question can we use a sentence like I’m
running out of money is it correct yes
absolutely I’m running out of money good
good good step back and roll back is it
the same in this context Raphael no they
are not the same step back and roll back
perhaps there are some situations where
you could use it in a similar manner but
no and I don’t have time to talk about
all of them let’s continue I’m already
late so go to the last ones very quickly
I’ll try to keep checking your questions
come off so to come off can mean to
become detached like a button on your
sweater like oh no a button came off my
sweater
a button came a button became detached
so we can use it in this way something
becomes detached but you also very
commonly hear this used to mean to
appear especially for people’s
personalities for example he comes off
as really cold he comes off as really
cold
so another preposition for another point
here he comes off as really cold he
comes off as really cold so we use this
usually before an adjective describing
someone’s personality or describing a
situation why oh says what’s okie dokie
okie dokie means okay it’s a very casual
and kind of interesting
way to say okay but I use its it’s not a
cool expression you should say that
okie-dokie is not cool I’m not good okay
on to the last two whoo sorry come
through to come through means to do
something as promised despite challenges
so we use this when we’re talking about
things we do with our teammates our team
members for example I was behind
schedule behind schedule means I was
trying to do something I had a schedule
but I was late I was late on my schedule
I was behind schedule but my colleague
my co-worker my colleague came through
for me with a complete presentation so
come through for someone to come through
for me my colleague came through for me
means my colleague really really helped
me with something that we had planned
even though I was struggling so in this
case my colleague made a presentation
for me I was late I was struggling my
colleague did this thing for me we
describe that situation with come
through my colleague came through for me
so please use for as well all right last
one I’m so late settle down settle down
I chose this for the last one on purpose
to settle down means to become calm to
become calm for example it’s late let’s
settle down let’s settle down
you can use this with kids people also
use this to talk about a point in their
life where they decide to maybe like get
married or start a family or maybe buy a
house they’re kind of their life becomes
calm to settle down to settle down whoo
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