Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 129 The verb phrase today is pop in. Okay we got three meanings of pop in today. So we'll give examples for all of them. Let's look at the first one. The first meaning is if someone pops in a place he or she enters that place for a short time ... Yeah we use this one a lot. This is very, very common. You just want to pop into place quickly, get something leave not spend too much time in there. Number two. To make a short visit in the same sense you can also say to pop by. So you can pop in or pop by both to mean a short visit. Pop always has the idea that you know kind of suddenly. Or kind of quickly. Any time something pops. All right. The third one here means to snap or push something into place. So that in that sense something could pop into place. Okay, good. So let's look at the first example. Let's just pop in 7-eleven to pick up a drink. I'm thirsty. Yeah this is very, very common. You might pop it into a convenience store or you know pop into someplace just for a short time. Get something and go out. We hear that all the time. Extremely common. Number two while we were ... while we were in ... while we are in that neighborhood. Sorry. We should pop in and visit your brother. So while we are in that neighborhood, we should pop in and visit your brother. It means we should just stop by. We should pop by. Visit him for a short time. because we're there. We're close. We're in that neighborhood. Anyway, all right. Let's look at the third one here. So I've kind of given two examples for the last meaning because this is one that I think I want students even concentrate on because of maybe some students might even know a couple of the others, but maybe you don't know this one. Or, or are aware of this one. He dislocated his shoulder and luckily the doctor was able to pop it in place again. Yeah, and especially when we say to pop it in it might actually make a little bit of a sound. That's why we say like to snap. Snap means like this is sound , so I think they do say that. If somebody dislocates a shoulder or some bone and they pop it you actually hear a pop when it goes back in. Or a little snapping sound. So and the last one here. That child dropped his toy and it came apart. Luckily I was able to pop the parts back into place. So maybe it was an easy toy to fix. Luckily you just had to snap it all back in. So you just pop the parts back into place. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
B1 US pop snap place short time visit short English Tutor Nick P Verb Phrase (129) Pop in 17 0 anitawu12 posted on 2019/05/19 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary