Hello, my dear friends! Welcome to Series English!
My name is Antonia Romaker
And today we are going to talk about phrasal verbs again!
Why do I have so many classes devoted to this topic?
Well, because there are so many phrasal verbs in the English language.
They are extremely popular
and sometimes their meanings are not very logical,
and you have to remember them.
Some phrasal verbs have many meanings
and you have to realize which one is used in this particular context.
So let's study 'make', phrasal verbs with 'make'.
Today we'll talk about make away, make for, make of and make off.
Four phrasal verbs.
We'll continue talking about phrasal verbs with 'make'
in our next classes,
but today we'll focus on just four.
And it will be more than enough, believe me!
So let's get started.
Make away can have different meanings.
For example, it might mean to depart in haste. Like...
I have just made away. Why? No idea.
Anyway, depart in haste,
when you just have to flee, get away, make away.
She saw her ex at the party and she decided to make away.
The second meaning is to make away
ans here we should add with,
the meaning could be 'destroy or spend'.
An example:
Well, he was a troubled young man
and he made away with all his family's money.
How come?!
It's crazy, but it is possible.
Parents word very hard and then
their children make away with their fortune. Yeah well.
And there's one more meaning.
Make away can mean to kill someone. Oh my God!
So this is not a very popular meaning,
but it's possible that make away can be used like this.
So you can make away with somebody.
The man decided to make away with his business partner,
because he was pulling him down.
BTW make off can have the same meanings as make away.
except for just one meaning - to kill.
So make off can mean to depart in haste,
or to destroy or spend. Make off.
We can also say 'make off with' - to spend to destroy.
Make for can also have two meanings.
Number one is to head somewhere, especially in haste.
Once again for some reason we are hurrying somewhere.
But in this case we know where we are going.
So we head somewhere, towards some place in haste,
usually, especially in haste. An example:
They said goodbye to each other and he made for the tram.
So the tram was about to leave and he had to make for it. And he did.
The second meaning, make for, is to contribute to,
or lead to something. An example:
You strong devotion to studying English
will make for your success in future.
You'll be able to use it at work,
when you are traveling, everywhere.
And it will make your life so much more interesting and fascinating!
I promise.
The next phrasal verb is to make of.
It can mean to interpret the meaning of something. An example:
The price for oil has dropped even lower today.
What do you make of this news?
So what does it mean? How can you interpret it?
What will happen?
So you can interpret different things, make of them.
OK and the second meaning is to try to understand
the meaning of something.
So you try to understand, for example:
What do you make of this painting?
Is it... sea? Is it... What is it?
What do you make of this painting? Any ideas?
OK that's it.
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But that's it During our next class, devoted to the phrasal verb 'make'
we'll talk about 'make out' and 'make up'.
These two phrasal verbs are extremely popular
and they have a lot of meanings.
So we'll devote a separate class to them.
But that's it, hope to see you soon!
Happy English and Russian practice! Bye-bye!