Hi, everyone and welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker
and today I'm going to teach you some more phrasal verbs, namely bring up and bring down.
Phrasal verbs might be confusing sometimes but they are really crucial in your studies,
if you want to sound more like a native speaker, understand native speakers
understand movies, TV shows and so on.
To bring up something means to start talking about a particular subject.
So you can bring up memories, you can bring up issues and things like that.
The evening was going well until someone brought up the subject of politics.
My friend is forever bringing up the past, so he starts talking about the past over and over again, all the time.
By the way using present continuous here is also a very interesting grammatical issue.
So I have brought up another grammatical issue!
Using Present Continuous here means that you are irritated by somebody's behavior.
To bring up someone means to care for a child until he or she becomes an adult.
So he's small, little and then he grows up, you bring him up.
I wonder how people manage to bring up a dozen of kids.
An example from Desperate Housewives.
If you take this job, you are never allowed to bring up what happened before with your promotion.
This is Lynette talking to Tom, she's really upset about Tom going behind her back.
To bring up memories, to bring up what happened before.
If you take this job you are never allowed to bring up what happened before with your promotion.
Do I look dead serious to you?
To bring something down means to cause something to become less, you bring it down.
You can bring the prices down or the temperature down and things like that.
Drugs can bring down your blood pressure.
Both these phrasal verbs - bring up and bring down - are separable so you can put the object in between,
between the verb and the preposition.
However if the object is too long it usually goes after the preposition.
An example from the TV show House M.D.
Your fevers 105 if we don't bring it down... something bad will happen,
you will die, so I'm saving your life. We need to bring your fever, your temperature down now.
To bring down someone means to cause someone to lose power.
There are a lot of different bloodless ways to bring your enemy down,
to make him or her lose his or her power.
To bring down can also mean to shoot and cause to fall, you can talk about a person an animal or a plane here.
The terrorists have brought the plane down.
An example from the TV show Once upon a time, the third season. Regine says:
You think you can bring down the Wicked Witch with sticks?
Can bring her down, make her lose her power, kill her.
Regina is talking to Robin Hood here and she's referring to arrows the sticks.
You think you can bring down the Wicked Witch with sticks?
OK, that's it about the phrasal verbs bring up and bring down.
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