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Lesson 32: Cars, Roads and Phrasal Verbs. May 8th, 2006

On this show, we discussed phrasal verbs and their idiomatic nature, and we looked at vocabulary dealing with roads and cars.

Phrasal verbs are verbs that combine a verb with either a preposition or an adverb. The main difficulty with learning them is that they can often have more than one meaning:

e.g: “take back” can mean to retract a statement or return goods to a shop for a refund.

“Bob took back his comment on the discussion”
“Rob took back his trousers to the shop”

Another problem is word placement. Intransitive verbsdo not take a direct object and as such, intransitive phrasal verbs cannot be separated. Great!

e.g: “My car broke down on the freeway”

However, transitive verbs take a direct object (D.O), and when this D.O is a noun, the phrasal verb may or may not be split by it:

e.g: “Let’s take the trash out” or “Let’s take out the trash” (Both are OK).

If the D.O is a pronoun, it must split the phrasal verb and so come in the middle:

E.g: “Bob wants to take her out” (Note we cannot say “he wants to take out her”- this is wrong).

Phrasal verbs are difficult and generally must be learnt simply by memorization or exposure to them. It is important to remember that phrasal verbs act as idioms and may often have more than one meaning.

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Joke
married couple
Bubba Bohacks

Vocabulary for the joke:
not getting along=not having good relations
the silent treatment=ignoring someone (or giving them the cold shoulder)
poke a little more at her=teasing her or making fun of her
relatives=family members
in-laws=family members from your spouse’s side
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Both sides of the pond
(US) indicator/ blinker/ turn signal (UK) indicator, blinker
(US) hood (UK) bonnet
(US) trunk (UK) boot
(US) licence plate (UK) number plate
(US) expressway/freeway/highway (UK) motorway
(US) high beams/ brights (W.coast) (UK) full beams
(US) gas (UK) petrol
(US) rotary (UK) roundabout

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Song
“Turn off your radio and turn me on” by Dropkick from Scotland. ‘Dropkick’ is a special kind of kick in rugby, and also means to kick someone hard. Try to catch the phrasal verbs in the song.

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