00:02Phrasal verbs.
00:03They're very common in spoken and informal English.
00:07They indicate action.
00:11They're made up of two parts, a verb and a preposition or adverb.
00:17For example, stand up, sit down.
00:25In these phrasal verbs, the adverb or preposition comes directly after the verb.
00:33Sometimes the prepositional adverb is placed after the object.
00:37For example, put your books away.
00:43We can also say, put away your books.
00:46The order of the object and prepositional adverb can usually be changed unless we are using a pronoun for our
00:54object.
00:56For example, let's use the pronoun them in place of the books.
01:01We say, put them away.
01:04We cannot say, put away them.
01:11If using a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb, it must go between the verb and prepositional adverb.
01:23The meaning of some phrasal verbs are more obvious.
01:26They're literal.
01:27Stand together with up means to stand up.
01:32Put with away means to put away.
01:39But many phrasal verbs are not literal.
01:42They're figurative.
01:43The meaning of a phrasal verb can often be something completely different to the base verb.
01:49This means that phrasal verbs need to be memorized individually.
01:55Take this phrasal verb, make up.
01:58The verb make means to build or form something.
02:02You could make a pizza.
02:07But used in the phrasal verb, make up, the meaning is completely different.
02:12Make up refers to people forgiving each other.
02:21I wanted to make up with my friend after our fight.
02:28Here's another phrasal verb, look up.
02:31It can be used literally, he looked up in the sky.
02:39But the same phrasal verb can be used to mean to search for information in a book or database.
02:46He looked up the word in his dictionary.
02:52When you come across a phrasal verb you don't know, try looking for clues in the sentence to help you
02:58work out what it might mean.
02:59You might be surprised how often you can work them out.
03:04In the meantime, get practicing!
03:05In the meantime, get practicing!
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