We haven't seen for ages! Let's grab a coffee and catch up! Yeah, I've cut my hair, catch up! Catch up!
Let's study another amazing English phrasal verb - to catch up.
Hello my dear friends and welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker and today
we'll master another English phrasal verb - to catch up. We'll discuss all its modifications
and there are quite many of them, to tell the truth. So let's get down to business and study them all!
So the first meaning, to catch up can mean to reach somebody or something ahead of you
by going faster than they or it. So let's say you are in a race and you are trying really hard
to catch up with the people in front of you. So you are running faster and you catch up with them.
You can simply say to catch up or to catch up with somebody.
She was walking so fast I had to run to catch up with her. You can skip 'with her' and simply say:
She was walking so fast I had to run to catch up. I wonder what she was running from... me?
We are running late, catch up!
The second meaning of this phrasal verb is to reach the same level or standard as somebody or something else
that was better or more advanced. So someone was better than you at something
and you catch up, you get better, you reach the same level the same standard as that person.
She has been off work for a while and is finding it quite hard to catch up. With her colleagues or with her work.
She has been off work for a while and now is finding it quite hard to catch up.
Let's say that she has been on maternity leave for two years.
Of course, she's finding it quite hard to catch up, she has to study some new programs and
a lot of paperwork, she has a lot of catching up to do.
To catch up with something or to catch up on something can mean to do something that you didn't have time to do earlier.
So let's say you wanted to ride a horse, you didn't have time for that, you were swamped.
But now you do, so you can say: I've decided to catch up on my horse riding.
I'm so behind with my paperwork, it's gonna take me a week to catch up! So you have a lot of work to do,
you didn't have time to do your paperwork, you were busy with some meetings and stuff and now you can say:
I'm so behind with my paperwork, it's going to take me a week to catch up!
To catch up with something or to catch up on something can also mean to learn or discuss the latest news.
Let's go for a coffee, I need to catch up on all the gossip! I have so many things to tell you!
Mary is pregnant! And her boss doesn't have a clue!
Let's go for a coffee, I need to catch up on all the gossip!
if you say that you catch somebody upб it can also mean that you tell this person about things that have happened.
You can catch me up on the news later, now we have bigger problems.
So you will tell me about all the news later, not now. You can catch me up on the news later.
You can also say to be caught up in something or to get caught up in something and it means
to be involved in an unpleasant event or a situation that you cannot escape.
So it's there and you can't do anything about it. It's an unpleasant event, an unpleasant situation
that you got into, so you got caught up in this mess.
I'm sorry I'm late, I got caught up in a traffic jam. Actually, I was too busy sleeping.
I'm sorry I'm late, I got caught up in a traffic jam. Don't do that.
To be or get caught up in something can also mean to be absorbed,
completely absorbed by a situation, by activity or your own feelings.
You don't see anything, you don't hear anything, you are completely absorbed.
Hey! I didn't hear you come in, I was so caught up in this book, it's great, I love it!
Harry Potter? What are you 12?
If something catches up with you it can mean that it starts to cause you problems,
that you have so far managed to avoid, but now you can't.
It catches up with you, you have consequences in present, which are not very pleasant, to put it mildly.
The past is finally catching up with him. So he did something in the past and now
he has problems, that situation starts to cause problems, the past is finally catching up with him.
The late nights were beginning to catch up with her. She was depressed and exhausted,
couldn't do anything. The late nights were beginning to catch up with her.
To catch up with somebody can also mean to meet someone you haven't seen for a while and hear their news.
I want to catch up with my college roommate, I haven't seen her for ages. I should give her a call.
I want to catch up with my college roommate.
Okay that's it about this amazing popular English phrasal verb, I hope that now you know
what it means and you won't have any problems understanding when you hear it here and there.
And you will come across it, I'm 100 % sure! Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed watching this class.
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