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If you use over, alone,
this talks about separating two different places.
Let me give you an example.
- Look, things are different over here.
- Cheers.
- Oh, you better hide that beer, Sir.
You can't drink in public over here.
- Can't do (beep) over here.
- But with a verb, now it has more meaning.
For example, she tells her boyfriend,
"Hey, come over."
Yes, she could say, hey, come here.
That's fine too.
But when you use over,
you're saying move from this place to this place.
So, how should he come over?
Well, I can't just drive over, I don't have a car.
He wants to move from here to here, over.
The method, how?
By driving.
So, that's your phrasal verb, to drive over.
Okay, so he doesn't have a car.
Then bike over, you have a bike.
Bike over.
You see, this shows what happens.
Movement.
This shows how it happened.
Bike.
But it's raining.
It's very dangerous.
I'm alone and I have snacks for us.
You're alone and you've got snacks?
He is very excited about having snacks with her.
Okay, I'll run over.
He decides he's going from here to there by running.
He could drive over, he could bike over,
he could run over, or he could dance over.
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Are you going anywhere tonight?
How are you gonna go over there?
So it could also mean do something
with a lot of time and consideration.
For example,
your friend had a very bad day at work
and he says, "I hate my job.
I want to quit."
But you want to say, wait, give it some time,
think about it, then make your decision.
You could say this.
Well, don't do anything rash.
Rash. This is a good expression
you can use.
If you want to say, I know you're emotional right now,
but don't make the wrong decision, very quickly.
Let's say you meet someone, you fall in love
within one day and you're like,
oh my God, I want to get married.
Don't do anything rash.
Don't act too quickly, based on emotion.
So yeah, don't do anything rash, just think it over.
Take a day, take two days,
think it over.
You'll know from context
which
meaning of over it is.
This is not a movement verb.
Come, drive, run, bike.
They are movement verbs, right?
So, if you see a movement verb with over,
probably means move.
But
that
is more similar to consideration, right?
So, it probably means that.
And again, you can change the verb.
Think it over,
talk it over with your friends,
then make a decision.
Again,
give it consideration, over,
by talking,
the verb.
Hmm, yeah.
Okay, he's gonna go talk it over with his girlfriend.
So,
hey, I want to leave my job.
But his girlfriend says,
"I think we're over.
You're boring and I don't like boring people."
So, in this case, over doesn't mean movement.
It doesn't mean doing something with consideration.
In this context,
over means
finished.
I think we are finished.
Now, more commonly than breaking up,
you might use this to ask, hey, when do you finish work?
Like this.
Crazy day.
I can't wait until work is over.
To be over, to be finished.
Now, this only really works with the verb, be.
You don't need another verb, to say it's finished.
So, more commonly, you might want to use this
in these examples.
This movie's boring.
When's it over?
Is your relationship over yet?
Your girlfriend's really boring.
But like I said, this can mean to do something carefully
or with a lot of consideration.
So, think about resolving a conflict.
It's very useful for that situation.
For example, for me,
I used to be very bad with cleaning dishes,
so, me and my old housemate had a fight about it.
A hundred percent my fault, but I'm stubborn.
So, we argued a lot about it.
There was a lot of tension.
We didn't talk for a long time.
But then we were like, this is stupid,
we live together, so,
let's talk it over,
fix this problem.
And of course, it was fine afterwards,
but that's the phrasal verb you need.
Let's talk it over.
I'm much better with cleaning right now.
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watching my videos.
Oh God.
Oh no.
Sorry about that.
I had to change my shirt because the last one got sweaty.
It's okay, white doesn't show up sweat so easily.
So, also, we can use over to talk about
what you were eating or drinking,
while usually talking about something.
Yeah, that's really interesting.
Let's talk about this more over a coffee.
You could go crazy with this
and add lots of overs in one sentence.
Listen, let's go over the contract together.
We can talk it over, over dinner.
But just keep in mind,
that over goes before the food or the drink.
Yeah, we discussed the contract over a few cocktails.
This is just juice.
Now, some phrasal verbs
don't use any common meaning of over.
It's just that's the verb, that's the preposition,
and you don't change it.
For example,
they are talking about his relationship,
which is over, finished.
Where are they doing it?
They're talking over coffee.
And his friend says,
"Don't worry, you'll get over her soon."
What does this mean?
Well, it means to recover
from your bad feelings or bad situation.
So, yeah, it could mean you have a heartbreak,
you feel very bad.
After some time, you get better again,
you get over that breakup.
Get over is a very specific phrasal verb.
We don't change the verb with this.
Get over. It's fixed.
You don't change it.
And it's not just heartbreak.
Which other bad situations or bad feelings
can you recover from?
Not just heartbreak.
It could be a cold, the flu, an illness.
(Teacher coughing)
Hey.
You all right?
Yeah, I'm fine.
I had a cold last week.
I got over it though.
Don't worry, I'm fine now.
(Teacher sneezes) Dude, that was gross.
Let's practice this in the comments.
Okay, this is gonna be a sad question.
You don't have to answer it.
So, think about a breakup you had.
How long did it take to get over it?
Again, that's a really sad question.
You don't have to answer it.
No, no, no, she was the best thing ever.
I will never get over her.
Another phrasal verb, which is fixed
and we don't change the verb, is take over.
This means you get control
over usually a company,
or a team, a project.
You become the leader of something.
For example, let's imagine I say I'm quitting YouTube
and I make a big dramatic video about it,
and I'm like hey you, you watching this video,
you should take over this channel for me.
Then I'm asking you to take control of the channel for me.
Again, this is common when talking about businesses,
projects, teams, anything that needs a leader.
The leader takes control,
takes over from someone else.
For example, we can practice this right now.
In your country,
do you think someone else will take over
in the near future?
I know a few countries have elections soon.
So, is someone new going to take over in your country?
Let me know down below.
Another common meaning of over,
means to do something again.
So, for example, this guy says,
"I didn't understand anything about your lesson,
about this video, about the phrasal verbs with over."
I might say to you, look, don't worry.
Watch it over, and over, and over, and over,
and sooner or later, you'll get it.
So in this case, I'm saying, watch it again,
and again, and again, and again.
Maybe you take a test and you make some mistakes.
You can ask to do it again
by saying, sorry, I made some mistakes.
What do you think goes here?
Can I do it over?
And we use this as a noun, like this.
Yeah, I made a mistake.
I wrote your name instead of my name.
Can I have a do over please?
And finally, we don't only use over after a verb,
to have a common meaning.
We also use it before a verb,
to change the meaning.
Most commonly, over before a verb,
means to do something too much.
For example,
remember our friend here,
he wants to get over his ex.
He's very, very sad.
So, he does what we all do.
He goes to the gym to get a better body
and forget all about her.
He wants to get over her the
gym bro way.
But he does it too much.
It's excessive.
And the next time you see him, you're like,
you did the gym too much.
Now, usually, we wouldn't say you did the gym too much.
We would use that prefix, over.
So, how do we change this?
Too much,
over.
You overdid the gym.
That's okay, but most commonly though,
you would say, you overdid it.
You can use this for anything,
when someone does something too much.
You overdid it
at the gym.
If I make you cookies and I put too much sugar in there,
you could say, you overdid it on the sugar.
If you go out partying with your friend
and they drink too much,
you overdid it on the cocktails.
But the problem with this is, there are not many verbs
you can change that to.
So, and it's really weird, like
if someone drinks too much,
you don't say you over drank last night.
We would understand it, but we don't say it.
However, if someone's eating too much
and they feel sick,
you can say, I think you overate yesterday.
That's okay.
So, how do you know which verbs are okay?
If you hear another option with a different verb,
you can use it.
Then it's okay.
But if you want to use this in an exam,
stick with the verb do.
That's the safe option.
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