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Hi.

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James from engVid.

I'm going to do a video on phrasal verbs and going out, but I'm just listening to E's conversation.

Hold on.

"Yeah.

Let's not ask James over tonight."

What?

E! Ahem.

Excuse me for a second, guys.

What do you mean: Don't ask James over?

Why aren't you going to invite me?

In English, we use a lot of phrasal verbs to talk about interactions; social interactions,

when we get together and what we do.

Today's lesson I'm going to take some phrasal verbs and I'm going to show you how we use

the prepositions to affect the verb to talk about how our meetings are going; whether

our plans fell through, whether I'm going to ask you out, or we hook up.

So you'll know the difference and you'll be able to understand them in context.

Are you ready?

Let's go to the board.

Traitor.

So, E doesn't want to ask me over.

Okay?

So, we're going to get there and find out what he means by that, but let's first take

a look.

I put: "Cheers" because a lot of these idioms have to do with social interaction and how

we meet or don't meet.

So, let's start with the first one, and I'm going to start over here: "out".

Well, when you ask somebody out, it's to invite them to go out and do something.

Seems obvious, yes?

But when we ask someone out, usually it's a member of the opposite sex.

So, as a man, I will ask a woman out for a date.

So you might go: "Hey.

I was wondering, Laurie, could I ask you out for dinner tonight?"

Now, you wouldn't say that to just a friend, because you'd say: "Hey.

Do you want to go out?"

In this case, I'm asking you out so you can say yes or no.

So: "Asking you out" means to get out of the house or go out, go outside somewhere; and

specifically, we usually use it for romance, so keep that in mind.

Right?

Because when we're talking about "out", we're leaving something; we're going outside of

a boundary.

Now, you see: "get out" and "go out", and you're probably going: "Duh.

We know what that means - it's to leave."

Actually, no.

If I said to you: "I don't go out very often"...

Remember I told you to go outside of a boundary?

Well, "going out" in this case means I don't have any fun activities that I do.

Yes, it does entail or it does involve-involve-leaving, but more...

It's more going to do fun activities.

So, if I said to you: "I need to go out more", I'm not saying just leave my house, but I

want to do something; movies, dancing, singing, vacation.

I need to get out.

Right?

Or I go: "You need to get out more."

I don't mean just leave your house; it means: Go do something, get an ice cream, talk to

friends, go to Starbucks - something.

So, when we use "out" and either "ask out" or "get out", please remember that "ask out"

is usually for a romantic involvement.

So, if you're a man asking a woman or a woman asking a man in English, and you say: "I want

to ask you out", they're going to think dating.

Don't forget that.

Okay?

Now, "getting out" and "going out" means I need to get out and do some more fun activities.

Good.

Now, if you're going to go out, you're probably going to get back in.

Right?

So, when we're coming back in, we're going to talk about "in" being involved in.

Now, you're going to notice I have three words, here: "drop", "pop", "stop".

Drop, pop, stop.

And no, it's not dancing.

I'm going to start with these ones and then I'm going to go back to this one; the top

one, which might seem odd, but you're going to find in.

A "pop" is very quick.

Right?

You pop.

Pop, it's gone.

And when you stop, you stop.

You kind of stop right now.

When we say: "pop in" or "stop in", we talk about a short visit.

So, I'm going to stop in for a second, and then I'm going to leave, or I'm going to pop

in and then I'll leave.

So don't expect me to stay for three or four hours.

Maybe you invite me and you go: "Hey.

Come over to my place.

We'll have a drink."

And I'll go: "Cool.

I can only pop in for five minutes."

It's going to be a short stay.

Or: "I can only stop in for about 5-10 minutes; maybe an hour.

I got to go to another dinner."

So this is short.

So then you're going to go to me or probably you'll say: "So, if that's short, this one's

short as well."

No.

It's similar, but not the same.

When you drop something...

Okay.

Usually when I say I drop it, I can drop it on purpose, but sometimes I drop, say...

By accident.

It was unexpected.

I didn't mean to drop that.

I mean, really.

If it was a drink and you had a beer, you wouldn't drop it on purpose.

Usually it's an accident.

When you "drop into somebody's place", it's usually unexpected.

Right?

It's not that you might not be invited, but it's usually unexpected.

And yeah, someone doesn't expect you to be there.

So, you might say: "Yeah, my friend Bobby always drops in when I'm usually busy."

I'm not saying I don't want Bobby to be there, but it's a bit unexpected.

Now, you can ask somebody to drop in.

Okay?

But even from that, like, you go: "Hey, you can drop in at about 5 o'clock."

I'm kind of giving...

It wasn't planned; maybe I'm offering it out to you now.

Okay?

So: "Why don't you drop in?" which is different than "drop by".

Okay?

So we're going to say: "drop in".

If someone drops in, usually unexpectedly.

"Pop" and "stop" usually, like, it's fast; it's not long.

Okay?

So, we've...

We've gone in, we've gone out, and why don't we do "up"?

"Up" means usually to increase or improve when you talk about this preposition.

And we've got: "pick up", "meet up", "hook up".

Well, "pick up", as you can see this is on my arm, when I pick it up, I'm going to remove

it from somewhere and make it join me.

Okay?

So: "I'm going to pick you up at 7 o'clock" means you will go at your house, I will come

pick you up in my car-usually a car or some vehicle-and I will take you away.

Cool?

All right, so: "I'll pick you up later."

I'm going to come back to "pick up" because it has more than one meaning, and it's going

to be similar to "hook up", okay?

So we'll come back to that after.

Now, "meet up" means to get together.

As you know, when two people meet...

Well, I have markers.

When two people meet, they come together.

I'll meet you.

So, when we "meet up" it means: -"Okay, I'm going to meet you at a different time."

-"Where?"

-"Well, let's meet up at John's place" means we'll go and arrive together at John's place,

so we'll see each other there.

So, if I say to you: -"Let's meet up at about 7 o'clock; let's get together at 7 o'clock."

-"Where do you want to meet up?"

-"Let's meet up at the school."

Okay?

Join and come together.

So that's what "meet up" means.

Now, let's look at "hook up".

Well, I've got a friend and his name was Bobby, and I tried to hook him up with a girlfriend

of mine named Sarah.

In this case, I tried to...

Because a hook.

If you know what a "hook" is...

Right?

A hook, you use hooks to catch fish.

Right?

So, here's my little fish.

It's not the best fish in the world.

Doo-doo-doo.

And this fish isn't happy because I just hooked him.

So, when you hook up, it usually means to get together, but usually for dating and it

can have sexual connotations or a sexual meaning to it.

Now, "pick up" and "hook up" are related in a different way.

If you pick someone up, it means to go out to look for someone of the opposite sex, so

it means if you're trying to pick up girls, you'll go to the bar and you'll go: "Hey,

I'm Bobby and I'm here to meet some friendly girls."

Right?

Or if you're a girl, yeah, you can pick up guys, too; it's the 21st century.

You know: "Hi.

I'm Sarah, and I would love to meet you."

Now, "hooking up" goes a little further.

So, if you say: "I picked somebody up" and you move into "hooked up" it means then you

got together a little bit romantically.

Okay?

So, yeah, I picked her up at the bar and, you know, we hooked up a couple days later.

So, I met her at the bar, then we hooked up; we got together in a romantic way later.

Hmm, so careful how you use these things, okay?

I don't want you getting in trouble.

So if you've got a wife and you say: "Yeah, I hooked up with a girl the other day", you

might be divorced.

But if you tell your friends: "Hey, I hooked up with a girl the other day", and they go:

"Yay, way to go."

Or if you're a girl and you say: "I hooked up with a guy the other day", they go: "Is

he nice?

You know?

Did you meet his mother yet?"

All right.

So, we've talked about "up" and how that's increasing, now let's look at "over" and "off".

"Over" means, as you know, here's something, if you go over it, it's not just to go up,

but to...

Well, you can be up as well, but to go over you might say: "to"...

I'm trying to think of a word that would describe more than.

All right?

It's more than.

So, when we look at "ask over" , it means to invite.

And if you noticed over here, Mr. E didn't want to ask me over; he didn't want to invite me.

So, if I say: "Hey, why don't you ask over your brother?" it means: Why don't you invite them?

"Have somebody over"...

Usually when we're having people over, it means we're inviting them to our place; they're

going to be staying at our house or our apartment.

Okay?

"Come over" is also an invitation.

"Why don't you come over?"

So it means we're here, so I'm inviting you once again.

"Why don't you come over to my place later on?"

I'm inviting you to my place.

While "bring over" means bring something with you.

"So, when you come over tonight, why don't you bring over a pizza?"

All right?

And remember I said it's kind of a little bit more than?

It's kind of an increase or...

Yeah, a little bit of an increase, so it's not just up, which would go this way; we're

saying to do more than.

So, I'm asking you to go from here, over here, moving, right?

It's more than just going up.

Have people over; a gathering.

I'm having a few people over tonight; invited a group.

"Come over" - I'm inviting you over.

"Bring over" - bring with you something more than yourself.

Cool?

Now, here's something funny: We had "pick up", and I'm going to go here to "drop off".

Well, when I picked up this cloth, I removed it.

"Dropping it off" means to put something back or leave something.

So, I might pick you up at 7, but I'll drop you off at 11, it means I will bring you back