hello and welcome to this video today
you're going to learn the top 10
phrasal verbs in english and having
these phrasal verbs in your vocabulary
is going to help you sound fluent sound
natural
sound advanced and it will help you
understand
native speakers as well because our
vocabularies are
filled with phrasal verbs and of course
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are you ready to learn the top 10
phrasal verbs in english
now make sure you stay right to the end
because at the end of the lesson i'm
going to quiz you
on all your new vocabulary so you can
complete the quiz
right at the end now let's dive in
number one
to ask someone out now pay attention to
the sentence structure because notice
here i'm using
someone you only ask someone
out you don't ask something out
and here's the reason why when you ask
someone
out it's to invite them
on a romantic evening together
also known as a date so to ask someone
out
you invite them on a date a date
is a romantic evening
spent with someone of course it doesn't
have to be an evening
it could be a morning coffee date or an
afternoon date
as well but i just said evening because
most of the time
it is in the evening so let me give you
an
example sentence why hasn't jim asked
maria
out yet he's obviously into her
so notice here why hasn't jim asked
maria out ask someone
out our someone is maria now of course
you need the
subject who's doing the action so
jim is inviting maria on
a date a date is always romantic
right now maria could say no
and we're going to talk about that later
on in one of our phrasal verbs
so let me give you that example again
why hasn't jim asked maria
out yet he's obviously into her
now you might be wondering jennifer what
does that mean he's
obviously into her well that's our next
phrasal verb
to be into someone to be
into someone now here
i'll point out that you can also be into
something but first let's talk about to
be into someone
when you're into someone i'm sure you
notice
based on the context but it means
to like someone romantically
now the context is really important
because i'm going to give you a musician
who
i'm really into i'm really into
jack johnson now when i say that oh i'm
really into jack johnson
i don't like jack johnson romantically
although
he is pretty cute i guess but i don't
like him romantically
but i really like his music
so if you use into someone it depends
on the context but there is this
meaning of liking and for the most
part that liking is romantic
so if i said jim is
into maria he likes her
romantically but if i'm talking about
being
into a celebrity or a musician
an actor it's possible that i just
like them but not necessarily
romantically
so keep that in mind now remember i said
you could also be
into something now in this case we're
talking about
liking something and it's usually an
activity
or a hobby so i was really into jack
johnson
when i was really into playing
ukulele and playing guitar jack johnson
is an
amazing musician he plays guitar and he
plays ukulele
so i was really into him and mainly when
i was
into playing ukulele and playing guitar
those are two activities i don't really
do much
anymore simply because i don't have time
it isn't a priority for me to do those
activities
right now at this stage in my life
although
one day i would definitely like to do
them again
now so you could talk about any hobby or
activity oh i'm really
into going hiking i'm really
into playing video games so we use this
with hobbies and activities mainly
our next phrasal verb to bring someone
down to bring someone down is to make
someone
unhappy but there's that transition
because that person
was happy and then something happened to
bring them down
and now they're not happy or they're
at least less happy than they were
before
so i could say that movie really
brought me down now notice here
the my subject is the movie the movie
brought me down i could also use
a person my boss brought
me down so something or someone can
bring someone down that movie brought me
down
so i was happy and then i watched the
movie
and now i'm not happy or i'm less happy
probably because the movie was very sad
or depressing
something like that number four to cheer
up
so you can think of this as the opposite
to cheer someone up
is to make them happier now we commonly
use this in the
imperative cheer up cheer up julie
cheer up don't be sad cheer up so we
commonly
use this in the imperative but you can
use it in
other ways for example i could say i
took my friend out to lunch to cheer her
up
to cheer her up so that's the reason why
i wanted to make her happier
to cheer her up number five to pick
someone or something up this is one of
the most common phrasal verbs you
probably know it
but did you know you can also pick
something
up you pick someone up and you also
pick something up and that's when you
take an object or a person
from one location to another location
so of course you might know it in the
sense of
i pick my kids up after school
or i pick my husband up
after work right that's probably how you
know it
but you can use it with a something
maybe
your husband could call you and say oh
hey
can you pick milk up on your way
home can you pick milk up so you're
going to go to a location
the store get milk and take it to
another location your home can you pick
milk up on your way home it's very
common to get a call from someone and
they ask you oh hey can you pick this
up can you pick this up on your way home
and that something is a grocery item
or something for your home so now you
know how to use it with a someone
and a something and what's the opposite
of to pick someone up
well is to drop someone off and you can
also
drop something off when you drop
someone or something off it's to leave
someone or something at
a specific location so of course you
could say
i dropped my husband off at work
i dropped my friend off at the airport
now you might also ask someone
can you drop this letter off
on your way to work so they take the
letter
and they leave it somewhere
in a different location the post office
or a mailbox
can you drop this letter off on your way
to work
number seven to end up
to end up is a very useful phrasal verb
we use it to say that you eventually
do something or eventually
decide something so you might say
i ended up asking julie out
who is our first example i can't
remember
oh it wasn't julie it was jim and maria
so let me give that again
jim ended up asking maria
out so remember before i said why hasn't
jim asked maria out yet
so now remember to end up that's to
eventually do something so
after a period of time so jim
ended up asking maria out
but she turned him
down remember i said at the beginning
i'm going to teach you a phrasal
verb if maria i was going to say julie
again
if maria says no will that
to turn someone down that's our next
phrasal verb
to turn someone down now you can also
turn something down can you think of
something that you might say
no to hmm how about a job offer
hmm something like that so to turn
someone down to turn something down
is when you receive an invitation or
a proposal to do something and you say
no
you decline you refuse you reject
you say no so maria
turned jim down now you might also say
i was turned down for
the job i was turned down now you could
turn that into an
active sentence they turned me
down i was turned down by the company
they turned me down so in this specific
phrasal verb it is commonly used
in the passive so i would get
comfortable with the passive but you can
use it
in the active of course as well number
nine to fill in
or to fill out forms
okay so notice here i gave you two
prepositions i know students get
confused what's the difference between
fill in and fill out there is no
difference
so specifically with forms
that's the only time that there is no
difference
when you're entering information into a
form
you're filling in that form you're also
filling out that form
it doesn't matter which preposition you
use
and honestly i use both of them
interchangeably so i just
change between fill in fill out i use
both
and you can too so if you go to an
office they might say
after you fill in this form
or after you fill out this form
drop it off at reception notice
drop it off at reception so take it to
reception and
leave it there drop it off at reception
our final phrasal verb
to find out to find out is when you
understand something you learn something
or you
discover something so maybe going back
to our character
jim so maybe jim could say
how did you find out that maria
turned me down so maybe jim is a little
embarrassed he thought this was just
a secret nobody knew but then a friend
tried to cheer him up because he knew
maria turned him down
after he asked her out notice all our
phrasal verbs
so jim could say how did you find
out that maria turned me down so how did
you
discover this how did you learn this
how did you find this out and we use
this when you want to get
information as well so i might say
i need to find out when
the store closes because i have a
package
i need to drop off but i don't know when
they close i need to
find that out so learn
or discover that specific information so
now you have
the top 10 phrasal verbs in your
vocabulary and as you saw you can use
them all together
and native speakers when we speak our
sentences could have 3
four five phrasal verbs in one
sentence so you need to get really
comfortable and confident
using phrasal verbs so are you ready for
your
quiz i'm going to first put the
questions
on the screen now i'm only going to put
them on the screen for about 10 seconds
so
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answers on for about 10 seconds so hit
pause and you can review the answers as
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or three if you're feeling adventurous
your top three phrasal verbs from the
list
of the top 10 and leave example
sentences
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awesome job adding these new phrasal
verbs to your speech i can't wait to
read your examples and i'll see you in
my next video
bye
you