20 HighFrequency Phrasal Verbs in English
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we’re going to talk about 20
high-frequency phrasal verbs this means
20 very common phrasal verbs today’s
lesson is based on some research into
phrasal verbs I chose these 20 verbs
from a list of very often used verbs and
I chose the verbs that I feel like are
maybe difficult to understand quickly or
that I’ve noticed many learners make
mistakes with so I hope that these 20
are useful for you we have a lot to
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today we’re going to talk about 20
high-frequency phrasal verbs I’m going
to introduce each verb I’m going to
explain the definition or the meaning
sometimes there are two and share some
example sentences so please feel free to
send your example sentences as well
let’s get started though because we have
a lot to talk about
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this part of the board you’ll notice in
today’s lesson a lot of the phrasal
verbs will use up I think this is the
most common one the most common
preposition for today so please note
that up and out are some very very
commonly confused ones so let’s get
started with pick up pick up pick up is
our first phrasal verb to pick up and I
think yeah we’ll zoom in it’s hard to
see there’s a lot today pick up to pick
up there are two meanings
for to pick up first to pick up can mean
to take something from a low place and
move it to a high place so we use this a
lot with the phone for example to pick
up the phone right so the phone is in a
lower place you take it from the low
place and move it to the high place to
pick up so as in pick up the phone or
please pick up the phone the second
meaning for pick up is to collect
someone or to collect something so this
is very commonly used in a sentence like
this can you pick me up from the airport
can you pick me up from the airport so
this means please collect me from the
airport so I arrive at the airport I
want you to collect me like in your car
or some other mode of transportation so
there are two ways to use pick up pick
up
second phrasal verb is come back so I
want to talk about come back and go back
together these two they have they share
very similar meanings but what’s
important here with come back and go
back is the perspective of the speaker
perspective means the point of view of
the speaker so let’s look at come back
first to come back means to return to a
place yes to return to a place but from
the point of view of a person who
remains in that place so for example
let’s say I’m here in front of the
camera and our control desk person
suddenly leaves and I’m like oh no like
I’m in a live lesson no please come back
please come back I need your help please
don’t go right
please come back I need your help I say
come back because I am still here I
don’t say go back I don’t say go back
I’m remaining I’m still in this place so
I say please come back please don’t go
away
however go back go back is from the
perspective of the other person so again
to go back means to return to a place
you were just in but from the point of
view of the person who moved away so for
example again if I’m here and the
control desk person decides suddenly to
leave the studio and I’m like no come
back and the control desk person decides
to enter the room again he might say I’m
going to go back into the studio I’m
going to go back into the studio so to
come back and to go back yes they mean
to return to a place but your
perspective your point of view is very
important here so these two are very
commonly confused so some other examples
with come back and go back are please
come back to visit soon please come back
to visit soon and I’m gonna go back to
my college I’m gonna go back to my
college yes okay some examples I’m
looking for your examples on Facebook
10th at Jung says I will come back soon
I will come back soon
so like I’ll come back to a place here
in maybe hmm okay I don’t see any other
so let’s continue on we have two more in
this first group the next one turn out
to turn out to turn out means to end or
to finish we use this typically at like
the end of an event or when we want to
talk about the way in which something
finished an event finished a party
finished maybe like a livestream
finished so when we want to talk about
how something finished we can use turn
out for example our event turned out
this is past tense our event turned out
great our event turned out that means
our event ended great our event finished
great
so to turn out means to end in some way
to end okay and finally it’s very
similar sounding end up to end up so it
might seem similar to turnout but end up
means to finally be in a situation or to
finally be in a place so we usually use
end up when there’s been some kind of
struggle or some kind of challenge and
we tried many many different things and
finally we finish in this situation or
in this condition for example last night
we ended up taking a taxi home last
night we ended up taking a taxi home so
maybe in this situation the speaker was
out late at night with friends or the
speakers in this case they were out late
at night and the train the train stopped
running or the subway stopped so that
was maybe a challenge or a struggle they
could say last night we ended up so it’s
like saying eventually or in the end
after some struggles we took a taxi home
or we ended up taking a taxi home okay
let’s see I’m looking for your examples
other a few um Almeida says on YouTube
the party turned out great
exactly good Edgard says my birthday
party turned out just fine
perfect very nice Suri’s matt says hello
Alicia please come back tomorrow to
teach me about English perfect very nice
so digitally come back please come back
I cannot come back tomorrow but please
join us next week okay some other
examples Khan Walid says he spent all
his money and ended up with no money in
the middle of the month perfect very
nice example life says they end they end
up or they ended up loving each other
okay good good
Deva Lehren says I ended up in the
friend zone
nice example okay on Facebook masya I
ended the project so we use end up when
we want to talk about like something
that happens after a struggle so we
follow end up usually with some verb
this is taking in this case we ended up
taking so we’re talking about some
action we eventually did okay if you
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phrasal verbs so I introduced this at
the beginning of today’s lesson very
briefly but as always we have free stuff
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here you will find some expressions for
meetings which I often talk about and
these often today’s lesson we can use
some of these phrasal verbs in meetings
so this is another good one to review
also another time when you’re using
phrasal verbs a lot is when shopping
this says clothes yes but in general
when you are shopping for things phrasal
verbs come up a lot so these are a
couple of examples of situations where
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one show up to show up is our next
phrasal verb to show up means to appear
to appear especially when not expected
so we typically use show up for people
so it’s like we’re surprised to see
someone and like where we want to
express that surprise for example I was
surprised the CEO showed up at the
meeting so showed up showed up is the
past tense form of show up I was
surprised the CEO showed up at the
meeting like this we could replace
showed up with appeared or we could say
came to but showed up is like it
communicates the feeling of surprise or
something unexpected happening the CEO
showed up in the meeting oh my gosh so
show up communicates this feeling of
surprise
better than appear or come in this case
so we use this for people generally
occasionally it’s used for like objects
I suppose but we’ll talk about another
one that we typically use for objects
instead okay uh Leah says nice of you to
show up haha great example nice of you
to show up is like you weren’t expecting
someone to come this has kind of a
negative feel about it nice example yeah
okay let’s continue on to hold up hold
up so to hold up has two different uses
that I’ll talk about here first is to
raise something high so to hold we have
the simple just a verb to hold something
like I hold my phone like to hold my
phone and then I could say I hold up my
phone so this one is very easy to
understand I think to hold something up
to hold something up but the second
meaning is probably
less clear the second meaning is to
cause a delay to cause a delay so in an
example sentence a mistake held up the
project a mistake held up the project so
held up is the past tense of hold up a
mistake caused a delay in the project a
mistake held up the project that’s what
this means so we can say caused a delay
in that’s also okay but this one is a
bit shorter it’s easier to say a mistake
held up the project or an accident held
up the Train so something that caused a
delay can Bri can be expressed with hold
up hold up
okay I will check to see if there are
any examples really really quickly uh uh
human who mom young hang on Facebook
says hold up there hold up there that’s
another use of hold up which isn’t
really in a sentence but as a command
hold up can also mean wait wait like
hold up can also mean to wait to wait
we’ll also see this with hold on later
but yes hold up can also mean please
wait
or casually to wait so it’s less it’s
not really used in a sentence just as it
is okay
yes many people are using the first
meaning to hold something up like to
hold up an object okay attempt Amara
tomorrow hope I said that right the
hurricane hold up the flight make sure
the hurricane held up past tense yeah
the hurricane held up the flight caused
past tense caused a delay in the flight
uh okay other example
I don’t see okay let’s continue on then
next is check out check out so this one
again there are two meanings I’m going
to talk about in this lesson to check
out number one is to pay for items at a
store to pay for items at a store so
you’ve gone shopping like you’re at the
bookstore or whatever you collected your
items you take them to the cash register
and you pay so we use checkout to
describe that I’m gonna check out I
would like to check out please that
means I would like to pay for my stuff
I’m done I’m done shopping to check out
the other meaning though means to look
at something so we usually use this for
something new something that is new I
want to check out a new thing for
example let’s check out that new
restaurant
so I’ve here I’ve used to look at
something but so we can use it for
something new we physically look at it
can also mean like to experience as in
this case let’s check out that new
restaurant means like let’s go and look
around and try that new restaurant so we
usually use this for something new so
check that out or let’s check out this
thing to check out to check out someone
says check out the PDF cheat sheet now
yeah check it out check out there are
lots of them I think they’re like 25
maybe we have new ones I don’t know if
I’ve shown all of them but yes please do
check these up please do check these out
okay
ah nanny on Facebook has another good
example of check out so I talked about
check out at a store when you’re ready
to pay for something you can also use it
at a hotel when you leave the hotel to
check out of the hotel life says is
check out similar to confirm know check
out is different to check is similar to
confirm to check yes I’m going to check
some information I’m going to confirm
information yes
all right so let’s move on to move on so
to move on perfect segue I didn’t even
plan that so move on to move on means to
go to the next thing I use this all the
time I just used this in the live lesson
so it means like to go to the next thing
usually in a list or usually in a
sequence so in this case I have a big
list of vocabulary words I want to go to
the next thing I say I’m going to move
on I’m going to move on to something so
this is the preposition we use for
example I’m going to move on to the next
part of the lesson I’m going to move on
to noun phrase you’ll hear this used in
presentations so I’m going to move on to
the next slide I’m going to move on to
my next topic this is very good for
meetings and presentations on to break
down break down to two things I want to
talk about here to break down means to
make something smaller to make something
smaller for example like if you have
like a stick you need to make it smaller
we can say to break it down meaning to
break it into smaller pieces like this
kind of so one thing becomes smaller to
break something down but this one the
second meaning is one we use in our
lessons from time to time
to break something down can mean to
explain something in detail to give
small details about something
for example let’s break down the grammar
of this sentence let’s break down the
grammar of this sentence that means
let’s look at the details let’s explain
in detail the small points of something
so let’s break it down let’s
break this down this is also very common
in meetings in classes in lectures and
so on to explain something in detail as
a question you could say could you
please break this down for me that means
can you please explain to me in detail
can you please break this down okay
whew let’s continue on to column three
because time is going quickly and we
have lots to cover I’m looking for your
your examples but let’s get to the next
one put down put down so we talked about
to pick up at the beginning of the
lesson to pick something up is to take
something from a low place and move it
to a high place yeah to put down as the
opposite put down the phone that’s what
it means so to move something from a
high place or to move something you are
holding to a resting position so we pick
up the phone we put down the phone I
often hear students say pick the phone
no we can’t use pick the phone pick up
the phone and put down the phone this is
the first meaning the second meaning
though is maybe a little more difficult
it means to discourage to discourage or
to bully someone so to discourage or to
bully someone means to say mean things
to say rude things to someone to make
them feel bad that’s called
putting someone down to put someone down
in a sentence don’t put down your
classmates don’t put down your
classmates so that means like trying to
move them to like a lower social
position you can kind of think of it as
that okay on to turn up turn up I talked
about this one show up earlier we use
show up for unexpected appearances a lot
turn up has the same thing the same
feeling but we use turn up for objects
objects so we use this when we’re
looking for something
like a marker if I’m looking for my red
marker I can’t find it but finally I do
find it I can say ah my marker it turned
up on the desk or in this example
sentence my keys turned up in my
bathroom so we use turn up and it gives
the listener the feeling that we were
looking for something for a long time or
something was really hard for us to find
and at last we found it finally we found
that thing it turned up past tense
turned my marker turned up over there so
something we wanted to find that’s
meaning one meeting two is to raise the
volume of music or to raise the volume
of TV so that just means to make
something louder turn it up I love this
song so you can use of course the
opposite to turn something down like to
turn the volume of a TV or music program
down into alrighty
onward to hold on I mentioned hold on
briefly when we talked about hold up
hold on means to wait to wait so as a
command we use hold on to mean wait yes
so you will very commonly hear people
say hold on or hold on a minute or hold
on a moment it means please wait so it
doesn’t mean hold anything no holding
here but part two meaning to you might
hear in movies and TV especially like
action movies meaning to is to hold
something yes but usually for safety
purposes usually like in a character in
an action movie will say hold on to
something like before an airplane
crashes I don’t so to hold on to
something is usually used for safety
reasons for example with a beautiful
drawing hold on to the ladder when
climbing so if this is my beautiful
letter so when you’re climbing for
safety reasons you should hold on to the
ladder so
that means like physically holding
something and like continuing to hold
that thing to hold on usually for safety
reasons uh yes many people are using the
weight version of hold on
great great I see lots of these all
right onward to catch up to catch up to
catch up not to catch up common food
that we have with french fries to catch
up means to get the latest information
and it means to get to the same place as
someone like especially in a competition
like in a race for example let’s get a
coffee and ketchup let’s get a coffee
and ketchup so that means let’s get a
coffee and share our latest news let’s
share our latest information for meaning
to though we might hear this in sports
so if you like to watch sports you might
hear like a team a caught up to team B
the preposition is to their team a
caught up to team b like they were at
ten points now they’re at fifteen points
they caught up to team v so they got to
the same place as someone or another
team all right
takeover is the last one for this group
a to takeover means to completely
control something you might hear this in
business news so like company a took
over past tense of take is took company
a took over Company B so company a
completely has control of Company B to
completely take over something to take
control of something now they are they
have the power example my job is taking
over my life that’s not sure my job is
taking over my life but that means my
job has total control over my life to
take over something
take over something all right we have
five left oh my gosh we might make it in
time I’m trying to check your examples
really quickly people are using hold up
yeah please hold up a minute great job
with using hold up yes some people are
asking about the expression broke down
yes to break down means to have usually
a mechanical problem to break down or to
have an emotional problem I broke down
last night I lost my job some of you are
asking about break down there are those
two meanings all right let’s go to our
final group for this lesson again lots
that use up up up up up first one is
look up look up so the easy want to
understand the easy meaning to
understand here is to like use your eyes
and look in an upward direction like
look up at the sky that’s easy to
understand
I think but someone mentioned it earlier
in this lesson to look up means to
research something to check information
to research something so like if I don’t
know a vocabulary word I might check it
like I’m going to look up the meaning of
this vocabulary word I’m going to
research the vocabulary word like what
does the word
what does Inauguration mean I don’t know
I’m going to look up this word means
research or to check or try to confirm
something okay my example here was
please look up the definition so this is
a great word for learners of languages
to look up something or two it sounds a
little more casual a lot more casual
actually than research research sounds
very heavy like very detailed look up is
like just a quick check okay on to put
up put up again two meanings for put up
the first is to tolerate to tolerate so
to tolerate something means to stand
something usually there’s some negative
thing and you try not to let it affect
you
that’s called tolerating something so
even if something bad
happen someone says rude things or
something is unpleasant you continue to
do your best you tolerate something we
use put up to mean this for example I
don’t put up with rude behavior
so the preposition we use is with I
don’t put up with noun phrase I don’t
put up with rude behavior that means I
don’t tolerate rude behavior that’s not
okay for me I don’t tolerate so put up
and in this meaning we follow with the
preposition with with I don’t put up
with your behavior second is to decorate
to decorate these are very different
meanings yeah to decorate this
physically means to put an object to put
something like up high so we use it a
lot like on the holidays like we want to
hang lights for example it actually
means putting something odds too heavy
we put it’s very hard to see we put an
object up somewhere for the purpose of
decoration to put up noun phrase so no
with in that case to put up decorations
okay some good examples with put up
someone Raul says I put up with pain
yeah so many people if you have a
medical issue you might say I put up
with this problem all the time or this
pain is difficult for me to put up with
yes great example great example ok mmm
don’t see other ones we’re almost done
we’re almost done huh I hope ok three
more many more are bring up first one
bring up this is great for business
meetings to bring up means to introduce
a topic for discussion to introduce a
topic for discussion for example our
manager brought up past tense our
manager brought up our new product
performance at the meeting so this means
our manager introduced the topic of our
new product performance at the me
so to bring up means to introduce
alright last two last two are almost
there I’m a bit late sorry
I’ll finish quickly pull up to pull up
can mean to open a file on a computer to
open a file on a computer Hey
migaila one of our members has joined hi
there so to open a file on a computer we
use pull up cuz it’s sort of like if you
can imagine when you open a file on your
computer it kind of goes whoosh like
this yeah sort of gonna so that’s we use
the phrasal verb pull up to refer to
this when the file comes up pull up
appears on your screen
so to pull up to pull up and we also use
this when driving it means to drive a
short distance to stop at a point we use
this for like fast-food restaurants when
we go to drive-thru we might say pull up
to the window please so the preposition
in this case is to pull up to the window
pull up to the window and one more
example can you pull up that picture so
on your computer is what this means can
you please pull up that picture that’s
what this request is asking you might
here open as well but pull up also is
commonly used last one few last one
appropriately I chose this for the last
one is shut down to shut down so to shut
down of course is used for computers to
shut down means to turn off usually a
computer or other machine other
mechanical device to shut down to cut
power to something so I need to shut
down my computer or try shutting down
your computer but we also have this very
casual meaning which is to reject to
reject for example I asked my boss for a
raise but she shut me down she shut me
down that means I asked my boss for a
raise
she rejected me she declined so reject
reject or to decline as well it can have
that meaning
so to shut down can mean to be refused
but this is very casual very casual so
we use this one we’re speaking with our
friends if we’re rejected wow so we made
it guys we made it everybody we made it
through 20 phrasal verbs in 35 minutes
this is very close so these are 20 very
very common phrasal verbs that I’ve
noticed might be hard to understand or
are a little bit tricky and there’s a
lot to cover here I’ll step off screen
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