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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 phrasal verbs for
talking about vehicles let's go the
first phrasal verb first phrasal verb is
pull in pull in so pull in is used
usually when you're driving very slowly
we usually use it for a parking lot so
we'll use it in an expression like pull
into that space or pull in over there in
this sentence pull into that space over
there it means usually to slowly move
your car into a space into a parking
space or maybe into a garage you're
going into something usually very slowly
so pull in over here pull in over there
pull into that parking lot pull into
that driveway for example so slowly move
in to another place we use the phrasal
verb pull in for that the next phrasal
verb is pull up pull up in this sentence
i'll pull the car up in front of the
hotel we usually use this when we want
to slowly drive and then stop at a
location so for example at a stop light
we would say pull up to the stop light
so it means to slowly drive to a place
and then stop so pull up next to the
mailbox or pull up next to my house pull
up over there means slowly drive and
then stop at that place is pull up
that's how we use pull up the next
expression is back up back up so back
means reverse to back up a car is to
move a car slowly in reverse so usually
in most cases we drive cars going
forward but you sometimes need to move
your car in the opposite direction back
up out of the driveway for example it
means to go slowly in reverse to back up
in this sentence the truck backed up
until it touched the loading dock the
next expression we talked about pull in
now we have back in back in
so pull in means to drive forward into
something back in means to slowly go
backward into something usually a
parking space or a garage or something
so back in is going river in reverse
pull in is going forward as usual so in
a sentence back into the parking space
the next expression is roll down roll
down this might be a little bit of an
outdated expression at this point in
time but prior to the use of automatic
windows usually now i think most cars
have a button and the window will
automatically roll down but we used to
have a manual a hand crank in
in cars to roll down windows so this
motion which was used to move the window
that was the that was also the verb we
used we use roll so this motion is like
roll and then the window comes down so
we combined the two to say roll down the
window in a sentence roll down your
window it's hot in here the next
expression is head up and head down
these are very common expressions when
you are trying to navigate in a city you
don't have to use these only in cars you
can use them when you're walking or
traveling on foot as well on bicycle
whatever you can use head up and head
down any time you are trying to go
somewhere so head up and head down
really just mean go so i could say like
head up the street until you see a
starbucks and then turn right generally
though the difference between up and
down here it has kind of like a north
and south at least in english it has a
north-south sort of feel so if for
example i'm talking about um well the
west coast of the usa seattle is in the
north and los angeles is in the south i
would say i'm heading down i'm going to
head down to los angeles from seattle or
i'm going to head up to seattle from los
angeles it sounds really strange if i
say head up to los angeles because los
angeles is south of seattle so uh when
you're thinking when you're speaking
geographically when you're speaking in
terms of north and south for places it's
better to use head up or head down
depending on the location you're talking
about coming from let's see in this
sentence head down this street for a
while
the next expression is run over run over
this is a this is a word that we use uh
when in a car let's say you're driving
your car and then an animal comes out in
front of the car but you continue going
we say you are going to run over so to
run in this case is not a human running
but a car running so the car is running
is going is continuing over something
else so we can say like don't run over
any animals or be careful not to run
over your brother in the example
sentence i think you ran over a squirrel
true story my little brother once ran
over me in a golf cart that is true my
brother and i were playing one time and
my grandparents had a golf cart and my
brother and i were outside running
around we were playing like a james bond
like kind of spy game like we're like
okay i'm gonna drive the golf cart and
you have to run alongside and jump in
and i was like okay but i tried to jump
i don't know i got nervous but it wasn't
really going that fast but like somehow
things went wrong and i fell down or
maybe i tripped or something like that
when i was running i fell down and he
just he ran over me
in the golf cart like ran over my leg
just drove right over my leg and i was
like
we got in big trouble i was fine yeah no
i died
the next word is pull over so pull over
means usually you are driving the car
and you want to make a stop so usually
we use this like on the side of the road
or in a place where you wouldn't usually
stop or in kind of a strange not
necessarily strange but maybe not a
typical place to stop a car so for
example if there's like a bee in the car
and you're like i need to get this bee
out of my car you can pull over to the
side of the road we usually use it like
pull over to the side of the road and
you know do what you need to do or maybe
you need to pull over at a rest stop
pull over at a bathroom essentially okay
so in a sentence pull over at the next
rest stop yeah so pull over is also used
by the police as well as like a command
it's a it's a temporary situation so the
police are going to stop you they say
pull over to the side of the road and
then you have to move your car to the
side of the road where it's safe and
they talk to you and then you can
continue down the road after you've
finished speaking to them police will
use it as a command the next phrasal
verb is pull out pull out so for example
when you are coming out of a parking
space for example you can say like pull
out of this parking space and turn left
it means like to exit something slowly
so to pull out of a parking space or to
pull out into traffic so turning from
one one lane to another maybe busier
lane the image is going kind of slowly
and then picking up the pace somewhere
else so to pull out into is another
common expression pull out into traffic
or pull out of a space and turn left or
pull out of the driveway for example in
this example sentence a super slow truck
pulled out in front of us on the
mountain road
the next expression is get on get on we
use get on usually for large roads so a
highway or a major street usually the
traffic is moving very quickly we say
get on the highway get on the five so
like in the u.s lots of highways major
roads are labeled with numbers so like
california one a big state highway is
the number five highway the five so you
could say like get on the five at the
next exit or get on the five at the
street for example so to get on means
like to to join with your car
that
major road in a sentence get on the
highway here okay so that's the end
those are 10 phrasal verbs for talking
about vehicles i hope that those were
useful and some of these phrasal verbs
you can use in situations other than
cars and automobiles
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