I need to set up a new program, but I can't. Can you give me a hand?
Hello, my dear friends! And welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker
and today we'll study another phrasal verb in English - set up.
Set up has so many meanings that it can be really confusing.
So let's study them one by one.
To set up can mean to create or arrange something, for example, a meeting.
It can also mean to start a company or an organization.
We need to set up a meeting for tomorrow.
The journal was set up in 1924.
My dream is to set up a charity organization.
You can set yourself up, you establish yourself in a new business or a new area.
He set himself up in the business and became a successful agent.
To set up can also mean to place or build a temporary structure.
Do you know how to set up a tent?
Set up can also mean to do the necessary things for a machine or device
so that it could start working.
So you do something and then the machine or the device starts working you set it up.
Setting up the camera can be really tricky.
You need to do a lot of things, lighting, the distance, the background. Gosh!
I set up the computer so that they could work from home.
You can be set up by somebody else. It means that somebody makes it seem
that you did something wrong but you didn't.
To set somebody up means to get this person in trouble
by lying about him or her, saying something that is not true
that this person gets in trouble.
I'm not to blame! I've been set up! I haven't broken your computer!
I wasn't even here yesterday! I haven't done anything wrong! I've been set up!
Somebody set me up! I didn't do anything wrong! I'm innocent!
So somebody sets you up, that person makes it seem that you did something wrong.
But you didn't do anything wrong.
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Now it's your job to create your own examples.
As you can see set up has many different meanings.
So try to create an example for each and every meaning.
It will help you a lot, you will remember this phrasal verb much better.
So get going, start working, sit down and create your own examples.