افعال عبارتی UP

Phrasal verbs with “UP”

Prepositions and phrasal verbs I hate them you hate them but there is a super easy way to learn lots of phrasal verbs in, like, a second if you understand how the preposition works then you’ll understand millions of phrasal verbs Ok maybe not millions but, you know, a lot First: what’s a phrasal verb?

it’s a verb with one or two particles, prepositions which isn’t usually easy to understand so everyone hates them but again learn the common meanings of that preposition and it’s super easy “UP” is a really interesting preposition it’s so useful Of course sometimes a verb with up is obvious It’s a direction of movement, for example: Surprise! Surprise! Happy birthday! Look up!

I make that sign! I made it! “Look up”, “Look down”, basically any verb which gives movement and “UP” implies movement in that direction the second common meaning of “UP” is also quite easy quite obvious if you want to say something “Increased” “This year, our sales INCREASED” You might use the preposition “UP”, for example: “This year our sales WENT UP” “Sales went up” they increased,

Change that verb to add more meaning let’s imagine that the sales went up very fast we want to say increase so the preposition is UP but which verb implies movement in that direction very fast? We could have “Jump”, “Leap”, “Rocket” So you could say “The sales jumped up / leapt up / rocketed up” and if you’re going to take the IELTS exam those phrasal verbs are very useful particularly for the writing section and the reading too.

speaking too listening too all of it Oh and of course you know “Turn up” “To turn up the volume” = To increase the volume If it’s cold I might want to turn up the heat to increase the heat See! Your phrasal verb vocabulary is going up loads already We also use a verb with up to add emphasis to say: I completely finished something, I did it to completion What do I mean?

Here’s an example: If I say “I cleaned” it might mean I cleaned everything It might mean I cleaned a little bit here and there But, if I say “I cleaned UP” this now sounds like yeah I cleaned everything again it just adds emphasis to say you’ve finished something it’s completed it’s done, everything! Let’s use it in other situations for example there’s pizza in the kitchen Well there was pizza in the kitchen but You ate ALL of the pizza, how might you say this?

Of course you could say: “I ate it all” that’s fine, but if you add UP “I ate it all up” You’re adding emphasis to mean EVERYTHING! and in this case you could remove “all” So: “Yeah, I ate it up! What?!” “Don’t judge me! I like pizza!” So let’s look at that in other verbs, for example: You’re in a pub, it’s time to leave but you still have your drink this looks like pee Your friends say “Come on, we have to leave, FINISH your drink” What will they say to you? Come on we have to go! Drink UP!

if you go to your friend’s house and you want to use their milk you might ask “Can I use your milk?” but what if you finish the milk? What will you tell your friend? To add that emphasis to say “I FINISHED your milk” “I used up your milk.” “Sorry I used up your milk” It just adds emphasis The exception however If you watched all of Walking Dead you completed it.

You would NOT say “I watched up all of Walking Dead” We don’t say that this way for some verbs we just don’t use them if you said it, we would understand from the preposition from the context but it’s the style we just we don’t say that My rule of thumb is if you hear someone using a verb with up in that context Then you can use it. It means it’s in common use. Another meaning of UP means to approach someone or something and this phrasal verb is usually “UP TO someone”/ “UP TO something”

For example: I was in a bar and this guy came up to me and asked for a fight in other words he approached me he came near to me, he came close to me He came UP TO me Change the verb, make it interesting How can you approach someone? You can walk up to someone You could run up to someone or, why not, I saw a cute girl and I danced up to her In a car, you can drive up to the entrance of a building.

So in this way, the preposition UP has this “arrive” feeling to it Like in those last examples and one very useful phrasal verb to remember is “Show up” or “Turn up” they mean “arrive in a strange or unexpected way” For example: You can turn up to work two hours late Show up to work five hours early not just late or early something is strange or different about how you arrived.

For example, if I die and at my funeral this happens… Aly’s dead Seriously? You showed up in a banana suit!? Are you mental? okay, actually if I die one day I insist I’m saying it here officially At my funeral everyone must be in banana suits otherwise you’re not invited Now you know the common meanings of UP, you can adapt that so many many different verbs That is how we native speakers know and understand phrasal verbs through the preposition.

Okay next, in these phrasal verbs the preposition up doesn’t follow the logic of what we just learned the meanings are completely random But they’re the most useful, common phrasal verbs that I can give you Let’s go! End up / Wind up You’re telling a story Lots of things happen in the story but you want to say how the story ends how the situation finishes use END UP or WIND UP for example: Oh man I went drinking last Friday, I ended up in France the next morning!

It just means the end of a story Make up there are two meanings of this phrasal verb one of them means to invent a lie, make a story You lie, basically Yeah can I have a regular latte, please? Hi Hi! You know, I work for… Bitcoin Oh really? No, that’s a lie, I’m sorry. I made it up Uh huh However another meaning of make up or make up with someone this means you had a friendship or a relationship.

You stopped that friendship in a bad way, you’re not friends, you don’t like each other but then you become friends again You “make up” or “make up with each other” For example: - I hate you - I hate YOU! - Aww I love you let’s be friends again! - Okay - Aww! - They made up! “Come up” When something unexpected happens, maybe a problem something “CAME UP” for example: Oh I’m so sorry I have to leave, something’s just come up but I’ll call you later.

This is very useful when you want to cancel a meeting but not give details about why “Something came up! I have to not do the thing!” “Come up with” this time you need to improvise create an idea story a plan then you COME UP WITH something For example: What are you doing for Valentine’s Day? Noooo! That’s tomorrow, isn’t it?!

I’ll buy flowers or something I’ll come up with something! “Hurry up!” You want someone to move faster, you say “Hurry up!” Example: Ugh! Hurry up, I want my coffee! “Break up” when a relationship ends Use “break up” or “split up”, example: Why are we breaking up? Is this because I fart in bed? Yeah it’s exactly that Look something up You want to find information to Google something, for example: You want to find an address, a phone number, some information.

You LOOK it UP You find that information, for example: Excuse me, mmm where does the Queen live? I don’t know actually, I’ll look it up “To throw up” it means to vomit, sometimes it happens to everyone Lucy! Are you okay? Well don’t throw up! This is a clean shirt! Urgh! Wait you’re not gonna - No! No! No! No! Gross! Oh I’m so sorry! and finally when something explodes it “Blows up” Whoa! Oh my god did you see that? The car just blew up!