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  • It's Day 19.

  • How confident do you feel about the 18 phrasal verbs we've studied so far?

  • Today we'll learn one more.

  • I certainly hope you don't regret taking me up on my offer.

  • Because I just might invite you to try another ESL challenge in the future.

  • What does this phrasal verb mean?

  • Usually the object makes a mention of the word "offer" or "invitation."

  • Can you recall the stress pattern for a transitive phrasal verb

  • when the object separates it?

  • It's that second pattern.

  • We stress the verb and the first particle.

  • Listen again.

  • You've heard this pattern with other phrasal verbs. For example...

  • Have you ever taken someone up on an offer

  • only to regret your decision later?

  • Maybe you had a bad dinner date.

  • Or you ate strange food that didn't agree with your stomach.

  • Let's use flashcards to review the phrasal verbs from Day 1 to Day 19.

  • Recall the definition.

It's Day 19.

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