prepositions and phrasal verbs I hate
them you hate them but there is a super
easy way to learn lots of phrasal verbs
in like a second
if you understand how the preposition
works then you’ll understand
millions of phrasal verbs ok maybe not
millions but you know a lot
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first what’s the phrasal verb it’s a
verb with one or two particles
prepositions which isn’t usually easy to
understand so everyone hates them but
again learn the common meanings of that
preposition and it’s super easy up is a
really interesting preposition it’s so
useful of course sometimes a verb with
up it’s obvious it’s a direction of
movement for example happy birthday look
up I make that sign I made it look up
look down basically any verb which gives
movement and up implies movement in that
direction the second common meaning of
up is also quite easy quite obvious if
you want to say something increased this
year our sales increased you might use
the preposition up for example this year
our sales went up sales went up they
increased change that verb to add more
meaning let’s imagine that the sales
went up very fast we want to say
increase so the preposition is up but
which verb implies movement in that
direction very fast
we could have jump leap rocket so you
could say the sales jumped up the sales
lept up rocketed up and if you’re going
to take the IELTS exam
those phrasal verbs are very useful
particularly for the writing section and
the reading to speaking to listening to
all of it oh and of course you know turn
up to turn up the volume to increase the
volume if it’s cold I might want to turn
up the heat to increase the heat see
your phrasal verb vocabulary is going up
loads already we also use a verb with up
to add emphasis to say I complete
we finished something well I did it to
completion what do I mean here’s an
example if I say I cleaned it might mean
I cleaned everything it might mean I
cleaned a little bit here and there but
if I say I cleaned up this now sounds
like yeah I cleaned everything again it
just adds emphasis to say you’ve
finished something it’s completed it’s
done everything let’s use it in other
situations for example there’s pizza in
the kitchen
well there was pizza in the kitchen but
you ate all of the pizza how might you
say this of course you could say I ate
it all that’s fine but if you add up I
ate it all up you’re adding emphasis to
mean everything and in this case you
could remove all so yep I ate it up
what don’t judge me I like pizza so
let’s look at that in other verbs for
example you’re in a pub it’s time to
leave but you still have your drink this
looks like pee your friends say come on
we have to leave finish your drink what
will they say to you come on we have to
go drink up if you go to your friend’s
house and you want to use their milk you
might ask can I use your milk but what
if you finish the milk what will you
tell your friend
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so add that emphasis to say I finished
your milk I used up your milk sorry I
used up your milk just adds emphasis the
exception however if you watched all of
Walking Dead you completed it you would
not say I watched up all of Walking Dead
we don’t say that this way for some
verbs we just don’t use them if you said
it we would understand from the
preposition from the context but it’s
the style we just we don’t say that my
rule of thumb is if you hear someone
using a verb with up in that context
then you can use it
it means it’s in common use another
meaning of up means to approach someone
or something and this phrasal verb is
usually up to someone up to something
for example I was in a bar and this guy
came up to me and asked for a fight in
other words he approached me he came
near to me he came close to me he came
up to me change the verb make it
interesting how can you approach someone
you can walk up to someone you could run
up to someone or why not I saw a cute
girl and I danced up to her
in a car you can drive up to the
entrance of a building so in this way
the preposition up has this arrived
feeling to it like in those last
examples and one very useful phrasal
verb to remember is show up or turn up
they mean arrived in a strange or
unexpected way for example you can turn
up to work two hours late show up to
work five hours early
not just late or early something is
strange or different about how you
arrived for example if I die and at my
funeral
this happens Ali’s dead
seriously you showed up in a banana suit
are you mental okay okay actually if I
die one day
I insist I’m saying it here officially
at my funeral everyone must be in banana
suits otherwise you’re not invited now
you know the common meanings of up you
can adapt that so many many different
verbs that is how we native speakers
know and understand phrasal verbs
through the preposition okay
next in these phrasal verbs the
preposition up doesn’t follow the logic
of what we just learned the meanings are
completely random but then the most
useful common phrasal verbs that I can
give you let’s go end up and wind up
you’re telling a story lots of things
happen in the story but you want to say
how the story ends how the situation
finishes use end up or wind up for
example oh man I went drinking last
Friday ended up in France the next
morning it just means the end of a story
make up there are two meanings of this
phrasal verb one of them means to invent
a lie make a story you lie basically
yeah can I have a regular latte please
hi hi you know I work for Bitcoin oh
really
no that’s a lie I’m sorry I made it up
aha however another meaning of make up
or make up with someone this means you
had a friendship or a relationship you
stopped that friendship in a bad way
you’re not friends you don’t like each
other but then you become friends again
you make up or make up with each other
for example I hate you I hate you I love
you let’s be friends again
okay ah they made up come up when
something unexpected happens
maybe a problem something came up for
example oh I’m so sorry I have to leave
something’s just come up but I’ll call
you later
this is very useful when you want to
cancel a meeting but not give details
about why something came up I have to
not do the thing come up with this time
you need to improvise create an idea a
story a plan then you come up with
something for example were you doing for
Valentine’s Day no that’s tomorrow isn’t
it
I’ll buy flowers or something I’ll come
up with something
hurry up you want someone to move faster
say hurry up example Oh hurry up I want
my coffee break up when a relationship
ends use break up or split up example
why are we breaking up is this because I
fart in bed yeah it’s exactly that to
look something up you want to find
information to Google something for
example you want to find an address a
phone number some information you look
it up you find that information
for example excuse me
mm where does the Queen live um actually
I’ll look up to throw up it means to
vomit sometimes it happens to everyone
Lucy mm you okay
hmm well don’t throw up this is a clean
shirt oh wait you no no no no no no
gross oh I’m so sorry
and finally when something explodes it
blows up whoa oh my god did you see that
that car just blew up and if you want
more practice with phrasal verbs with
the preposition up I made some lesson
notes of worksheets the link to that is
in the description thanks for watching
if you learn something today please
share this video it really helps me and
if you do I will love you and only you
forever
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you
them you hate them but there is a super
easy way to learn lots of phrasal verbs
in like a second
if you understand how the preposition
works then you’ll understand
millions of phrasal verbs ok maybe not
millions but you know a lot
[Music]
first what’s the phrasal verb it’s a
verb with one or two particles
prepositions which isn’t usually easy to
understand so everyone hates them but
again learn the common meanings of that
preposition and it’s super easy up is a
really interesting preposition it’s so
useful of course sometimes a verb with
up it’s obvious it’s a direction of
movement for example happy birthday look
up I make that sign I made it look up
look down basically any verb which gives
movement and up implies movement in that
direction the second common meaning of
up is also quite easy quite obvious if
you want to say something increased this
year our sales increased you might use
the preposition up for example this year
our sales went up sales went up they
increased change that verb to add more
meaning let’s imagine that the sales
went up very fast we want to say
increase so the preposition is up but
which verb implies movement in that
direction very fast
we could have jump leap rocket so you
could say the sales jumped up the sales
lept up rocketed up and if you’re going
to take the IELTS exam
those phrasal verbs are very useful
particularly for the writing section and
the reading to speaking to listening to
all of it oh and of course you know turn
up to turn up the volume to increase the
volume if it’s cold I might want to turn
up the heat to increase the heat see
your phrasal verb vocabulary is going up
loads already we also use a verb with up
to add emphasis to say I complete
we finished something well I did it to
completion what do I mean here’s an
example if I say I cleaned it might mean
I cleaned everything it might mean I
cleaned a little bit here and there but
if I say I cleaned up this now sounds
like yeah I cleaned everything again it
just adds emphasis to say you’ve
finished something it’s completed it’s
done everything let’s use it in other
situations for example there’s pizza in
the kitchen
well there was pizza in the kitchen but
you ate all of the pizza how might you
say this of course you could say I ate
it all that’s fine but if you add up I
ate it all up you’re adding emphasis to
mean everything and in this case you
could remove all so yep I ate it up
what don’t judge me I like pizza so
let’s look at that in other verbs for
example you’re in a pub it’s time to
leave but you still have your drink this
looks like pee your friends say come on
we have to leave finish your drink what
will they say to you come on we have to
go drink up if you go to your friend’s
house and you want to use their milk you
might ask can I use your milk but what
if you finish the milk what will you
tell your friend
[Music]
so add that emphasis to say I finished
your milk I used up your milk sorry I
used up your milk just adds emphasis the
exception however if you watched all of
Walking Dead you completed it you would
not say I watched up all of Walking Dead
we don’t say that this way for some
verbs we just don’t use them if you said
it we would understand from the
preposition from the context but it’s
the style we just we don’t say that my
rule of thumb is if you hear someone
using a verb with up in that context
then you can use it
it means it’s in common use another
meaning of up means to approach someone
or something and this phrasal verb is
usually up to someone up to something
for example I was in a bar and this guy
came up to me and asked for a fight in
other words he approached me he came
near to me he came close to me he came
up to me change the verb make it
interesting how can you approach someone
you can walk up to someone you could run
up to someone or why not I saw a cute
girl and I danced up to her
in a car you can drive up to the
entrance of a building so in this way
the preposition up has this arrived
feeling to it like in those last
examples and one very useful phrasal
verb to remember is show up or turn up
they mean arrived in a strange or
unexpected way for example you can turn
up to work two hours late show up to
work five hours early
not just late or early something is
strange or different about how you
arrived for example if I die and at my
funeral
this happens Ali’s dead
seriously you showed up in a banana suit
are you mental okay okay actually if I
die one day
I insist I’m saying it here officially
at my funeral everyone must be in banana
suits otherwise you’re not invited now
you know the common meanings of up you
can adapt that so many many different
verbs that is how we native speakers
know and understand phrasal verbs
through the preposition okay
next in these phrasal verbs the
preposition up doesn’t follow the logic
of what we just learned the meanings are
completely random but then the most
useful common phrasal verbs that I can
give you let’s go end up and wind up
you’re telling a story lots of things
happen in the story but you want to say
how the story ends how the situation
finishes use end up or wind up for
example oh man I went drinking last
Friday ended up in France the next
morning it just means the end of a story
make up there are two meanings of this
phrasal verb one of them means to invent
a lie make a story you lie basically
yeah can I have a regular latte please
hi hi you know I work for Bitcoin oh
really
no that’s a lie I’m sorry I made it up
aha however another meaning of make up
or make up with someone this means you
had a friendship or a relationship you
stopped that friendship in a bad way
you’re not friends you don’t like each
other but then you become friends again
you make up or make up with each other
for example I hate you I hate you I love
you let’s be friends again
okay ah they made up come up when
something unexpected happens
maybe a problem something came up for
example oh I’m so sorry I have to leave
something’s just come up but I’ll call
you later
this is very useful when you want to
cancel a meeting but not give details
about why something came up I have to
not do the thing come up with this time
you need to improvise create an idea a
story a plan then you come up with
something for example were you doing for
Valentine’s Day no that’s tomorrow isn’t
it
I’ll buy flowers or something I’ll come
up with something
hurry up you want someone to move faster
say hurry up example Oh hurry up I want
my coffee break up when a relationship
ends use break up or split up example
why are we breaking up is this because I
fart in bed yeah it’s exactly that to
look something up you want to find
information to Google something for
example you want to find an address a
phone number some information you look
it up you find that information
for example excuse me
mm where does the Queen live um actually
I’ll look up to throw up it means to
vomit sometimes it happens to everyone
Lucy mm you okay
hmm well don’t throw up this is a clean
shirt oh wait you no no no no no no
gross oh I’m so sorry
and finally when something explodes it
blows up whoa oh my god did you see that
that car just blew up and if you want
more practice with phrasal verbs with
the preposition up I made some lesson
notes of worksheets the link to that is
in the description thanks for watching
if you learn something today please
share this video it really helps me and
if you do I will love you and only you
forever
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you
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