Top 10 Phrasal Verbs for talking about Vehicles in English
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we’re
gonna talk about ten phrasal verbs for
talking about vehicles let’s go
the first phrasal verb first phrasal
verb is pull in pull in so pull in is
used usually when you’re driving very
slowly we usually use it for a parking
lot so we’ll use it in an expression
like pull into that space or pull in
over there
in this sentence pull into that space
over there it means usually to slowly
move your car into a space into a
parking space or maybe into a garage
you’re going into something usually very
slowly so pull in over here pull in over
there pull into that parking lot pull
into that driveway for example so slowly
move into another place we use the
phrasal verb pull in for that the next
phrasal verb is pull up pull up in the
sentence I’ll pull the car up in front
of the hotel we usually use this when we
want to slowly drive and then stop at a
location so for example at a stoplight
we would say pull up to the stoplight so
it means to slowly drive to a place and
then stop so pull up next to the mailbox
or pull up next to my house pull up over
there means slowly drive and then stop
at that place is pull up that’s how we
use pull up the next expression is back
up back up so back means reverse to
backup a car is to move a car slowly in
reverse so usually in most cases we
drive cars going forward but you
sometimes need to move your car in the
opposite direction back up out of the
driveway for example it means to go
slowly in reverse to back up in this
sentence the truck backed up until it
touched the loading dock
the next expression we talked about pull
in now
we have back in back in so pull in means
to drive forward into something back in
means to slowly go backward into
something usually a parking space or a
garage or something
so back in is going river in reverse
pull in is going forward as usual so in
a sentence back into the parking space
the next expression is roll down roll
down this might be a little bit of an
outdated expression at this point in
time but prior to the use of automatic
windows usually now I think most cars
have a button and the window will
automatically roll down but we used to
have a manual a hand crank in in cars to
roll down windows so this motion which
was used to move the window that was the
that was also the verb we used we use
roll so this motion is like roll and
then the window comes down so we
combined the two to say roll down the
window in a sentence roll down your
window it’s hot in here
the next expression is head up and head
down these are very common expressions
when you are trying to navigate in a
city you don’t have to use these only in
cars you can use them when you’re
walking or traveling on foot as well on
bicycle whatever you can use head up and
head down anytime you are trying to go
somewhere so head up and head down
really just mean go so I could say like
head up the street until you see a
Starbucks and then turn right generally
though the difference between up and
down here it has kind of like a north
and south at least in English it has a
north-south sort of feel so if for
example I’m talking about the west coast
of the USA Seattle is in the north and
Los Angeles is in the south I would say
I’m heading down I’m going to head down
to Los Angeles from Seattle or I’m going
to head up to Seattle from Los Angeles
it sounds really strange if I say head
up to Los Angeles because Los Angeles is
south of Seattle so when you’re thinking
when you’re speaking geographically when
you’re speaking in terms of north and
south for places
it’s better to use head up or head down
depending on the location you’re talking
about coming from let’s see in the
sentence head down this street for a
while the next expression is run over
run over this is a this is a word that
we use when in a car let’s say you’re
driving your car and then an animal
comes out in front of the car but you
continue going we say you are going to
run over so to run in this case is not a
human running but a car running so the
car is running is going is continuing
over something else so we can say like
don’t run over any animals or be careful
not to run over your brother into the
example sentence I think he ran over a
squirrel true story my little brother
once ran over me in a golf cart that is
true
my brother and I were playing one time
and my grandparents had a golf cart
and my brother and I were outside
running around we were playing like a
James Bond like kind of spy game like we
were like okay I’m gonna drive the golf
cart and you have to run alongside and
jump in I was like okay but I tried to
jump I don’t know I got nervous but it
wasn’t really going that fast but like
somehow things went wrong and I fell
down or maybe I tripped or something
like that what I was running I fell down
and he just he ran over me in the golf
car like ran over my leg just drove
right over my leg and I was like we got
in big trouble I was fine yeah no I died
the next word is pull over so pull over
means usually you are driving in the car
and you want to make a stop so usually
we use this like on the side of the road
or in a place where you wouldn’t usually
stop or in kind of a strange not
necessarily strange but maybe not a
typical place to stop a car so for
example if there’s like a bee in the car
and you’re like I need to get this B out
of my car you can pull over to the side
of the road we usually use it like pull
over to the side of the road and you
know do what you need to do or maybe you
need to pull over at a rest stop pull
over at a back
essentially okay so in a sentence pull
over at the next rest stop yeah so
pullover is also used by the police as
well as like a command it’s a it’s a
temporary situation so the police are
going to stop you
they say pull over to the side of the
road and then you have to move your car
to the side of the road where it’s safe
and they talk to you and then you can
continue down the road after you’ve
finished speaking to them police will
use it as a command the next phrasal
verb is pull out pull out so for example
when you are coming out of a parking
space for example you can say like pull
out of this parking space and turn left
it means like to exit something slowly
so to pull out of a parking space or to
pull out into traffic so turning from
one one lane to another may be busier
Lane the image is going kind of slowly
and then picking up the pace somewhere
else so to pull out in to is another
common expression pull out into traffic
or pull out of a space and turn left or
pull out of the driveway for example in
this example sentence a super slow truck
pulled out in front of us on the
mountain road the next expression is get
on get on we use get on usually for
large roads so a highway or a major
street usually the traffic is moving
very quickly we say get on the highway
get on the five so like in the u.s. lots
of highways major roads are labeled with
numbers so like California and when a
big state highway is the number five
Highway the five so you could say like
get on the five at the next exit or get
on the five at this street for example
so to get on means like to to join with
your car that major road and a sentence
get on the highway here okay so that’s
the end those are ten phrasal verbs for
talking about vehicles I hope that those
were useful and some of these phrasal
verbs you can use in situations other
than cars and automobiles so if you have
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