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a very common question i get is how can
i learn phrasal verbs
well these books that long lists of
unrelated phrasal verbs
a thousand of them who no one needs that
put it in the bin
what you need is to learn the
prepositions because they have
general meanings
if you learn those general meanings
you'll learn all of the phrasal verbs
the same way we do and today we're
focusing on
away i've made lots of phrasal verb
videos you can find some here and at the
end of this video so let's start with
the most obvious the most general
meaning of a way
and that is to separate one thing from
another thing to create distance
i saw a fire so i
ran away easy right i created distance i
separated myself from the fire
how i ran
this is how simple phrasal verbs are
the preposition holds the meaning to
separate or create distance from
something the verb shows how something
happens the preposition shows what
happens
so if you think phrasal verbs are
difficult
let's learn like 20 in one second
think of different verbs with movement
run
walk
walked um
i danced away
i separated myself from the fire by
dancing and think of any verb that uses
motion
fly
drive
put that with a way now you understand
that you've learned at least 20 new
phrasal verbs because you learned the
preposition and how a phrasal verb works
now you could at the end of this say i
ran away
from
something from the fire
if you're like me
and you have a chocolate problem you
might say to your friend
i'm gonna keep me away from the
chocolate i'm on a diet seriously
keep me away
let's change that verb and change the
situation
how else could we use this
if you see a zombie and you want to say
you
get away from me you creep
zombies in this situation you could
change getaway to
go away
move away is a bit softer
so
maybe a person at a party you're like
can you just
move away
so get away it can mean leave but it can
also mean escape for example you are
running away from the police and
are the police still following me
no
i think i got away
oh i'm so tired
and if you know it means escape
get away with
can mean this
let's imagine
that you steal one million pounds from
the queen so the police arrest you you
go to court but then
the judge says
innocent no punishment for this guy yeah
yeah you can leave it's fine when you do
something bad like steal millions from
someone but there's no punishment you
avoid punishment for doing something bad
you get away with it you avoid the
punishment
to be specific to say what the bad thing
was
change the verb to the ing form
so it looks like this
i got away with stealing one million
pounds
from the queen oh my god
but usually with crime you would say the
name of the crime so i got away with
theft i got away with embezzlement
i got away with
type of crime
also with a way you can show how you got
rid of something disposed of it
now getting rid of something doesn't
necessarily mean throwing it in the bin
it could mean
giving it to charity
or
giving something of yours to someone
else you don't own it anymore
you give it away
but maybe i do need to throw something
in the bin sometimes like
when milk is old you have to
pour it away
get rid of it
so it's like doing something or using
something until it finishes like when
you get paid at the end of the month and
then you go straight to the pub and
spend all of your money
drinking
your friend could say this
you're just drinking your money away
such a waste you're getting rid of your
money by drinking but we can
take this to the next level
you could say you're pissing your money
away now yeah this is slang rude
informal don't use it with your boss
teacher or parents they might be
upset with you but it's a fun expression
to use when you want to say
something is a waste of money like going
on the london eye for me
that is a waste of money that is pissing
your money away
go to primrose hill you have great views
and it's free london i is so rubbish
don't go on it let's try this in the
comments what do you think is a waste of
money um for some people the playstation
5
is a good way to spend money for other
people it's a waste of money you're
pissing away your money on a playstation
5. but
what about the dyson air app
what about that
is that a good way to spend your money
or is it pissing your money away let me
know in the comments what do you think
what do you think is pissing your money
away
so you use something or do something
until it finishes okay
with that in mind let's imagine you go
to a party
how do you spend all of that time what
do you do
maybe you meet someone special and
you're talking to each other all the
time so all of that time until the end
until it finishes
you're talking
so you spent the whole night
talking
you talked the night away or maybe you
spent the whole night dancing you danced
the night away
another way that we use away is when
someone feels
really comfortable doing something but
maybe for a long time
and also maybe it's annoying like this
if someone is talking to you
for hours and they don't shut up
ah he's been talking away all night
talk away this just means he feels very
comfortable talking
for a long time
but like i said maybe it's annoying
but also
maybe you're having a lovely time ah
we've been talking away all night
i feel great he feels great talking for
the whole time
so it's not necessarily negative to talk
away
it can be really nice we were talking
away for the whole evening it was lovely
it just shows that you're really
comfortable doing something and it
implies for a length of time
so let me know in the comments have you
ever just talked away on a date has it
been lovely or maybe your date talked
away for hours
or maybe you did something else to spend
a whole night
what did you do let me know in the
comments
maybe you want to tell someone to feel
comfortable doing
something like this
if your friend asks you is okay if i
smoke in your house and you want them to
feel comfortable doing that you could
say this yeah of course smoke away
i want you to feel comfortable
smoking
it's just kind of a funny and friendly
way to say i want you to feel
comfortable
doing this thing
don't ever smoke in my house though it's
gross
also
if you're at dinner and someone wants to
start eating you want to say no no don't
wait for me
eat away
remember that a way means to be
separated from something or to be
distant from something yeah we use this
to say i'm not here
so if you are on your lunch break at
work for example and someone asks
oh hi um is becky at her desk right now
i'm not she's away from my desk right
now oh she's on holiday
yeah she's away all week
and finally there are some expressions
that you might just want to use like
this one
when something is eating away at you
it's making you feel bad and you need to
tell someone about it or do something to
fix it
like a secret
i have a secret and it's eating away at
me i need to tell someone
do you have any secrets eating away at
you please feel free to tell me them in
the comments i promise i'm not going
gonna tell anyone it will just be
between me and you also this last one
actually is really obvious
if
someone wants to ask you a load of
questions maybe in an interview or maybe
a police officer wants to ask you
questions
you want to say yeah feel free to ask me
anything
you can say ask away but we have an
expression for this which is
fire away ask questions and feel
comfortable doing it
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