Welcome back to JForrestEnglish Training, your place to become a fluent, confident English
speaker. Of course I'm Jennifer and today you're going to learn all the phrasal verbs that you
need to know with PULL. And make sure you watch right until the end because I'm going to quiz you
to make sure you know how to use all your new phrasal verbs. Let's get started.
To pull off a task. When you pull off a task, it means that you successfully
completed a difficult task. For example, let's say that your boss asked your team
to double their sales by the end of the month. That's a difficult task. So you might say,
I don't know how we'll pull this off. How we'll accomplish complete this difficult task. I don't
know how we'll pull this off. But let's say you do double your sales, after you can say,
I can't believe we pulled it off. I can't believe we did it. We completed this difficult task. And
often to reassure someone when they're completing a difficult task, you can say, don't worry, I know
you'll pull it off. You'll pull it off, you'll achieve, you'll complete this difficult task.
To pull up a document. This is a must know phrasal verb because when you pull up a document,
you make that document visible on your device. It could be a computer, laptop, phone,
tablet, it doesn't matter. But it has to be a device. So if you're in a meeting, you might say,
give me a second to pull up that report. Give me a second to make that report visible on the screen.
Now you can also use this with social situations. You might be having coffee with a friend and then
you pull up some vacation photos. You make those photos visible on your screen. And you share them
with your friends. And it's very common to hear this when you're calling any sort of customer
support or client support. Let's say you're making a dentist appointment. They're going to first say,
can I have your name, please? And then they'll say, give me a second to pull up your file.
Because on your file is all the important information, but they need to make that file
visible on their screen. Pull up. Now we also use pull up with vehicles. So if you're driving and
you want to pull up to a store, it means you're going to slowly approach that store. Now you may
or may not stop. You may just slowly approach that store, read their hours of operation and then keep
driving. Or you may pull up to that store, slowly approach the store and stop your car. Here's an
example of me pulling up to my mailbox. So notice how I slowly approach my mailbox. I'm seeing if
there's any mail. But notice I don't stop. I keep going. Don't confuse this with pull over,
because you can also pull your vehicle over. Now when you pull over, it means you're driving
and you bring your vehicle to the side of the road and you stop. So you always stop when you
pull over. So if you're in a taxi or an Uber, you might say, oh you can pull over by the green
house. You can take the car to the side of the road and stop by the green house.
Now we also use this with the police, because if you're driving and you hear a siren behind you,
well you have to pull over. You have to bring your car to the side of the road and come to a complete
stop. So here you can see me pulling over next to the mailbox. I'm coming to a complete
stop. Now you can also pull in and out of a parking spot, or a garage or some enclosed
space for your vehicle. So when you enter the parking spot or garage, you're pulling
in. I'm pulling into my garage. And when you exit, you're pulling out,
you're pulling out of the parking spot, or pulling out of the garage. So you might say,
make sure you look both ways before you pull out. Or this is a tight space, make sure you pull in
slowly or carefully. So here you can see I'm pulling into my driveway which is a confined
space. And now you can see I'm pulling out of my driveway. We also use pull in and out for a chair.
So when you bring the chair closer to the table, you're pulling the chair in. When you bring your
chair farther away from the table, you're pulling your chair out. So if you're in a busy restaurant
and you're trying to pass by someone, you might say, oh, excuse me, can you pull in your chair so
I can pass by? Can you bring your chair closer to the table so there's more room for me to pass by.
Or if you're too close to the table then you need to pull your chair out. And traditionally men will
pull out the chair for a woman to have a seat. Maybe that's a little old fashioned these days.
Now you can also pull out of an event, and that means you withdraw from that event. So
you no longer participate. And that event can be a race or competition or even an election. So let's
say there's a competition for a position at your company. And there are five people competing for
this one position. Now maybe Sarah decides to pull out. She pulls out of the competition, which means
she's no longer trying to get that position. She withdraws from the competition. Or maybe you're
competing in a marathon. You hurt your leg the week before so you have to pull out of the race.
You can also pull something apart, which means something is hole and then you separate it
into individual pieces, which is to pull apart. So something simple like an orange or a grapefruit,
that has individual pieces. You can pull it apart. You can also pull apart
electronics or more complicated things as well. To pull oneself together. This is a great one.
This means to regain your composure after you're upset, worried, anxious or in an extreme emotional
state. And to regain your composure just simply means to calm down. So if you're really agitated,
maybe you got pulled over by the police and your heart is beating so fast and you're really
anxious. Your friend in the passenger seat might say, pull yourself together,
pull yourself together, which is another way to say calm down, regain your composure. So go from
really anxious to calm. Pull yourself together. To pull through means to survive or to successfully
recover from an illness. So we use this in a health context. So let's say that Greg had a major
heart attack. But thankfully he pulled through, he survived that major heart attack. Now let's say
Greg has that major heart attack, and then he's in the hospital. You talk to the doctor and the
first thing you're going to say is, is Greg going to pull through? Is he going to pull through?
Is he going to survive? Is he going to recover? The doctor might say, I think he'll pull through.
Or maybe, it's too soon to tell if he'll pull through. And finally, to pull together. This is
when you work together as a team. So remember that team had to double their sales by the end
of the month. Well they pulled together to pull it off, to complete that difficult challenge.
And after the boss might say, I'm really impressed by how your team pulled together. It's amazing
that everyone pulled together to pull it off. Now you know the most common phrasal verbs with PULL.
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