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are you ready to add the top 10 phrasal
verbs to your vocabulary now make sure
you watch right to the end because i'm
going to quiz you to make sure you
really understand these phrasal verbs
all right let's get started with phrasal
verb number one
number one to rip off we use this when
someone is selling something or buying
something and the buyer feels that the
price
is too high compared to the value of
whatever they're buying for example i
can't believe i paid 200 dollars for
that
she ripped me off now notice the
sentence structure you rip
someone off she ripped me off
another example she told everyone that i
ripped her off but it was a fair price
so just because someone claims you rip
them off it doesn't necessarily mean
it's true
number two to wear out we use this when
something is damaged or weakened because
of age it's old or because of use you've
used it a lot for example i wore out my
tennis shoes last summer
if someone said that to me i would
assume they played a lot of tennis last
summer they played so much tennis that
they wore out their shoes they became
damaged from use from continually
playing tennis
we also use this in an adjective form to
be
worn out so it would be very common to
say i need to buy new tennis shoes
because mine
are
worn out so of course r because shoes is
plural and we need the plural form of
the verb to be
mine my tennis shoes are worn out so
both forms are very common number three
to draw up we use this when you need to
prepare paperwork and generally that
paperwork is for a contract an agreement
a proposal generally something that two
people need to sign or agree on to make
it official for example i asked my
lawyer to draw up the papers whenever
you're dealing with a lawyer the papers
are going to be official so this is a
perfect time to use to draw up or you
could say we're waiting for our bank to
draw up the mortgage agreement so that's
another very official document that you
need to sign and you can use the phrasal
verb to draw up number four to burn out
this is a phrasal verb that has gotten a
lot of attention recently especially
with the pandemic because to burn out
this is when you feel exhausted mentally
or physically from prolonged stress
stress of work stress of a situation
like a pandemic stress of a family
situation like a divorce or an illness
something like that but a prolonged
period you can be stressed out for a day
but when you burn out it means you've
had that stress for a long period of
time several weeks several months or
even several years for example i burned
out at my last job
so perhaps i was working so much that i
went through this period of prolonged
stress i burned out
another example i burned out after
caring for my aging parents so
caregivers often experience burnout so
you can use this in a work situation or
you can use it in a personal situation
as well number five to look up to
someone so notice we have two
prepositions look up
two
and then someone we use this when you
admire someone or you respect someone so
i could say i looked up to him like a
father so of course i admire and respect
my father and i'm comparing the
situation to someone else i looked up to
him
i admired him like a father
another example i really look up to my
boss so you admire your boss you respect
your boss you hold your boss in high
regard so you can use this in a work
situation you can look up to people and
you can use this in a social situation a
family situation you can have many
different people in your life that you
look up to for different reasons number
six to step up now that's the phrasal
verb but we most commonly use it in the
expression to step it up notice that it
it's very important to step it up to
step it up this simply means to work
harder or to try
harder now you can say
we need to step it up if we're going to
meet the deadline so you have this
deadline you need to work harder so it's
the same as saying we need to work
harder if we're going to meet the
deadline step it up now what is this it
in the expression well the it would
represent
work or effort
we need to step up our work we need to
step up our effort step it up i
encourage you to use it that way step it
up because you'll sound like a native
speaker we have a really common
expression with this step it up and then
you add the two words a
notch step it up a notch if you look at
a dial a notch is one move on the dial
so it represents a little bit a small
amount step it up a notch it's just like
saying step it up a little bit so that's
just a common expression you need to
step it up a notch if you want to meet
the deadline so you can use it with a
notch it's very common or you can use it
without number seven to hone in on this
is another two preposition phrasal verb
we have hone
in
on hone in on something and this means
to really focus on something to put all
your attention on something specific for
example if we want to get more customers
we should really hone in on small
business owners so maybe right now
you're not being very specific and
you're looking at all customers but you
want to hone in on one specific segment
of the population small business owners
so you're going to focus on them you're
going to hone in
on them another example for the
presentation we should really hone in on
south america so maybe you're a global
company and you have branches all over
the world but for this specific
presentation you're going to hone in on
one specific part of the world south
america now many native speakers native
speakers not students many native
speakers mistakenly say
home
in on we need to home in on and that's
because in pronunciation they're very
similar honen homan and hohn what's that
it's not really used very much but
everybody knows the word home but this
isn't correct the expression is not home
in on the expression is hone
in on so make sure you get that both in
pronunciation home
and in spelling as well and if you hear
a native speaker say home in on they're
incorrect number eight this is a
must-know phrasal verb to bring up and
this is when you begin a discussion on a
specific
topic for example if you're in a staff
meeting it would be very common for
the boss or whoever's leading the
meeting to say before we end the meeting
does anyone have anything to bring up
does anyone have a specific topic they
want to discuss
does anyone have anything to bring up or
after the meeting you might tell another
colleague i didn't have a chance to
bring up the marketing proposal so you
didn't have a chance to discuss this
specific topic the marketing proposal
maybe you ran out of time number nine to
talk into and the sentence structure is
to talk someone
into
something and this means to convince
someone to do something for example she
talked me into
helping her move she convinced me to
help her move so when someone uses this
oh she talked me into helping her move
it gives you the impression that the
person didn't really want to do the
activity but somebody convinced them but
please i really need your help i'll buy
pizza
or maybe you could say my team talked me
into
bringing up the bonus at the staff
meeting
so notice i use bring up discuss a
specific topic the bonus my team talked
me into bringing up the bonus
now because maybe discussing the bonus
is a little bit of a sensitive issue
and nobody wants to do it but your team
convinced you
lucky you
so they talked you into it
and number 10 to stick around this is a
must use phrasal verb you can use it in
a social setting or a professional
setting to stick around means to stay in
a location for a period of time so let's
say you're at this beautiful park with a
friend
and after an hour or so your friend has
to leave and they say do you want to
share an uber
and you say no i'm gonna stick around a
little bit longer so you're going to
stay
in
a specific location the park for a
period of time it's unknown how long
you'll stay that doesn't really matter
it's just the fact you're going to stay
i'm going to stick around a little bit
longer such a beautiful day i'm going to
stick around
now you can also use this in the
negative
i can't stick around very long because i
have a meeting although it's a beautiful
day i can't stick around very long i
have a meeting to get back to
so now you have 10 new phrasal verbs
added to your vocabulary so it's time
for your quiz so here's how the quiz
will work first i'll show you the
questions you need to choose which
phrasal verb best completes the sentence
here are the questions hit pause now
complete the quiz and whenever you're
ready hit play and i'll share the
answers so go ahead and hit pause now
welcome back so how did you do on this
quiz let's find out here are the answers
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