![]() ![]() “I’m going over to a friend’s place right now.” Common structuresĬome/go over + to → I’m going over to her place right now.Ĭome/go over + tonight → Why don’t you come over tonight?Ĭome/go over + after → We’ll come over after work tomorrow. If you’re home and waiting for a friend, you might say:īut if you’re on your way to your friend’s house, you could say: To come or go over is to visit someone in their house. Show up + in → You can’t show up in jeans. ![]() Show up + to → He showed up late to the meeting. Show up + for → He showed up late for the meeting. “They never showed up !” Common structures And if you had a plan to meet someone and they never made it, you could say: If you’re at a popular concert, thousands of people might show up. You might show up early or late to a meeting, and your boss will be glad if you show up to work on time every day. To show up somewhere is to be present at a place where someone is waiting for you. This presents a very frustrating challenge for English learners, and it’s exactly why I created this lesson and included a free worksheet for you with explanations, examples, common uses and tons of exercises to help you practice. And even if you do, you might be too shy to ask your friends if you could practice with them. But finding opportunities to practice isn’t easy, especially if you don’t live in an English speaking country. You probably keep hearing that unless you practice phrasal verbs, you won’t get comfortable with using them. ![]() In other words, you haven’t found the best way for YOU to learn them. It’s that the traditional ways to teach and learn phrasal verbs are ineffective. So, it’s not that phrasal verbs are impossible to learn, or that you don’t have what it takes to learn them. Our brains need to make connections and understand relevance to learn new information. Our brains cannot assimilate more than 7 bits of information at a time (plus or minus 2). I’ve covered this in another post, but let me share with you two very important points I’ve learned in my ten years of teaching English: What makes learning them possible (or impossible) are the techniques you use to learn them. If you’re struggling with phrasal verbs (or have almost given up on learning them), I want you to know: it’s NOT supposed to be this difficult. Often, they’re grouped alphabetically or by verb which makes learning them even more difficult. What makes things worse is that most books don’t present the phrasal verbs in a way that makes sense. This book included thousands of phrasal verbs, so every time she opened it to practice, she felt overwhelmed and lost all motivation. A few weeks ago, a client mentioned to me that she’d bought a book to help her learn phrasal verbs. ![]()
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