I hate them, you hate them –
but there is an overwhelming way to learn a lot of phrase verbs during … seconds.
If you understand how the preposition works,
you will also understand a million phrasal verbs.
Well, maybe not a million, but many.
First, what is the phrase verb? It is a verb with one or two particles, prepositions
which is often not easy to understand, so everyone hates them.
But again, learn the usual meanings of the preposition, and it will be overwhelming.
“UP” is a really interesting preposition. It is extremely useful.
Certainly, sometimes the verb with “up” is clear.
It’s the direction of movement. For example:
Surprise!
Happy Birthday!
Take a look at the hill! that inscription I did. – I did it.
“Look up”, “Look down”, essentially any verb meaning “up”,
means moving in that direction.
The second common meaning of “up” is also absolutely easy, absolutely obvious.
To say that something has grown,
“This year our salaries have risen.”
you could use the preposition “up”. For example:
“Sales went up” – rose.
Change your verb to add more meaning.
Suppose wages grew very fast.
We mean “have grown” so the preposition is “up”.
But which verb suggests fast movement in that direction?
It can be “Jump”, “Leap”, “Rocket”.
So you can say:
and if you are preparing for an IELTS exam,
such verbs are very useful,
especially in the written part.
And when reading too.
And when talking
and listening.
Everything.
And surely you know “turn up”.
“Turn up the volume” – to amplify the sound.
When it is cold, you can “turn up” the heat,
so “add” heat.
You see? Your stock of phrase verbs is already rising.
We also use the verb + “up” to emphasize when we say:
I’ve finished something completely, done.
What do I mean?
Here is an example:
When I say “I cleaned”, it can mean that I have cleaned everything,
that I cleaned a little here and there,
but when I say “I cleaned UP”
now it sounds – So, I cleaned everything up.
Again, it adds the emphasis, which means you’ve done something, it’s done, it’s done. All.
Let’s use it in other situations, such as: There’s pizza in the kitchen.
Well, the pizza in the kitchen was, but
you ate the whole pizza. How could you say that?
Of course:
“I ate it all.” – That’s right, but when you add UP, “I ate it all up”
you add the emphasis to “everything”.
And in that case, you can delete “all”.
So, “Yeah, I ate her, what?”
“Do not rush me! I like pizza!”
Let’s look at other verbs, for example:
You’re in the pub, it’s time to go,
but you still have your drink.
(Looks like churches.)
Your friends say, “Come on, we have to go, FINISH your drink.”
What do you want to say?
Come on, we have to go!
Put it on!
When you go to a friend home and want to drink milk,
can you say “Can I use your milk?”
But what if you finish the milk?
What do you say to a friend?
To highlight the phrase “I FINISHED your milk”:
“I used your milk.”
“Unfortunately, I drank milk.”
It adds emphasis.
However, the exception:
If you’ve come to Walking Dead, you’ve seen it all.
You can not say “I watched all of Walking Dead.”
We do not say that.
For some verbs we simply do not use it.
If you said that, we would understand by preposition, by context,
but we just do not say that.
My practical rule is: if you hear someone in any context using a verb + up,
you can use it. This means that it is generally used.
Another meaning “up” is to “get close” to someone or something,
and such phrase verb is usually “UP TO WHO”.
For example:
In other words, “he approached me”,
came near to me, came close to me.
Change the verb, diversify it.
How can you approach someone?
You can come to someone,
to come to someone
or why not: I saw a beautiful girl and I crawled to her.
or in the car, you can come to the entrance of the building.
In this sense, the preposition of the UP has the feeling of “arrive”.
As in the last examples.
And one very useful phrase verb to remember is “Show up” or “Turn up”.
They mean “to appear in a strange or unexpected way”.
For example:
Not just “before” or “later”.
The way he came is something strange or different.
For example, when I die and on my funeral this happens:
Aly died.
Are you serious? You knocking in a banana suit?
Are you mental?
In fact, if I die one day, I insist that,
I say this officially here,
on my funeral everyone must be in a banana suit.
Otherwise, you are not invited.
Now you know the usual meanings of “up”.
You can customize it with many different verbs.
This is how we native speakers know and understand the phrase verbs –
through preposition.
Next, in these phrase words
the preposition “up” does not follow the logic of what we have just learned.
The meanings are totally random.
But they are most useful, the usual phrase verbs, which I can tell you.
Lets go!
You tell the story.
There are lots of things in this story,
but you want to say how the story ends,
how this situation ends.
Use END UP or WIND UP. For example:
Man, I went to parry last Friday, and I ended up in France the next morning!
It just means the end of the story.
This phrase verb has two meanings.
One of them is “to think of a lie”, “to talk to a guy”.
Basically “lie”.
Can I get a normal latte, please?
Hi.
Hi.
Do you know I’m doing … for Bitcoin?
Really?
No, that’s a lie. Sorry. I figured it out.
Yeah.
However, the second meaning of “make up”
or “make up with someone”
means that you have a friend or a relationship with someone.
You have ended this friendship in an ugly way. You are not friends, you do not like,
but then you get back together.
For example:
– I hate you! – Me too!
– Eee, I love you, come back to make friends. – All right.
– Oh! – They’ve been kidding!
When something unexpected happens, maybe a problem,
something “CAME UP”. For example:
– I’m sorry, but I have to go,
something just happened, but I’ll call you later.
This is very useful when you want to cancel a meeting, but you do not want to say why.
Something has come to me! I can not do it.
This time you have to improvise.
Create an idea, a story, a plan.
Then you can “COME UP WITH something”.
For example:
– What are you doing on Valentine’s Day?
– Neee! It’s tomorrow, right?
I buy flowers or something.
I’ll come up with something. / Something I can think of.
Do you want someone to act faster? Say “Hurry up!”
Example:
Aaaa … Do, I want coffee here!
When the relationship ends,
use break up or split up, for example:
– Why are we getting away? Because I’m fucking in bed?
– Yeah, that’s right.
Do you want to find information, something to go out, for example:
You want to find an address, a phone number, some information.
.
Search to find out the information. For example:
– Excuse me where the queen lives?
– I do not know, I’ll find out.
It means “vomit”. Sometimes it happens to everyone.
– Lucy!
Are not you?
Just do not turn around! You got a clean blouse.
Wait! Not … No! No! No!
Shame!
– I’m very sorry!
Finally, when something explodes, it’s “blow up”.
Týýý! Did you see that ?! The car has just exploded!
And if you want more phrase phrase exercises with the prefix “up”,
I made notes on the lesson, a set of exercises.
The link is in the video description.
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