Turn on/Turn off
Speaking of: "turn on", "turn off" - activate/deactivate. You can turn on or turn off the light, turn on or turn off the AC, which is the air conditioning. Turn on the fan, turn off the fan. Turn on the stove or turn off the stove where you cook.You could say "Hey, could you turn off the stove? I think the soup is ready." Turn on the heater or the heating. You might have a portable heater that you just turn on and it makes heat, it makes it warm in your room, or you might have central heating in your house where you adjust the thermostat. So you can turn on or turn off the heating. Turn on the TV, turn off the computer, turn on the dishwasher. So, you put your dishes in the dishwasher, turn it on. I do that because mine has three buttons, so one, two, three, and then four to start. That's mine, but anyway. Turn on the laundry or turn off the laundry. You can say the laundry machine as well. And after, you put your clothes in the laundry machine, also called a "washer", you can turn on the dryer. You can say "Hey, I put the clothes in the dryer. Can you just turn it on? I forgot for some reason.
Turn up/Turn down
"Turn up" means to increase and "turn down" means decrease. So, you are talking about the intensity of something; an appliance in your house. You can turn up the volume. Now, you can turn up the volume on the radio or the TV. You heard me having a conversation and I said: "Hey, can you turn down the TV?" So when you say: "Turn down the TV" or "the radio", this specifically means the volume on the TV. Or I don't know what you're doing now. Or you can turn down the radio; the volume on the radio. You can turn up the AC. So: "It's still hot. Can you turn up the AC?" Increase the air conditioning. And turn up the heater, the heating. You can also just say: "the heat". "Can you turn down the heat? It's too hot in here." So, remember "turn up" means to increase; "turn down" means to decrease.
Pick up
Next we have: "pick up". "Pick up" is very useful because it has a couple of different contexts. So, first I'm going to give you some context where "pick up" means to lift, or to lift and collect things in your house. This helps when you are cleaning up around your house, and you need to pick up the toys. So, you tell your kids, like I tell my kids: "Pick up your toys." And then they don't listen, and there's a long argument, and then no one is happy. Another favourite of mine: "Pick up the stuff on the floor." I use the word "stuff" because I can't even see what it is, because it's just plastic on top of papers, and more plastic, and dolls, and things.
Another example you can say: "Pick up your jacket." If someone left the jacket on the floor.
"Hey, pick up your jacket."
Pick up the papers on the table. Like you maybe live with someone and they left
a big mess on the table: "Hey, could you pick
up the papers on the table?"
And next we have "pick up" with the meaning of getting or acquiring something. So, you can pick up something on the way home from work. You can get something or pick up something from the grocery store, from a department store; wherever you can buy something. So you can say "Yeah, I can pick up some milk." means I will get some milk from the grocery store" or "supermarket", depending on which word you prefer there. "Hey, can you pick up some double-A batteries? We need double-A batteries from the smoke detector", for example. Another example is "Could you pick up a coffee for me?" So if you are out and your partner is at home, your partner calls you: "Hey, I know you're coming home soon. Could you pick up a coffee for me? A cup of coffee for me?" And you can also ask someone to pick up the mail. So: "I forgot to pick up the mail yesterday." Or maybe you go on vacation so you ask your neighbours or someone in your family to pick up the mail while you are away. So, to get the letters that come into your mailbox every day while you're away.
Now, before we continue, I also want to stress: "turn on", "turn off", "turn up", "turn down", "pick up", and the other five phrasal verbs you will see - they are all separable. What this means is the object, like for example, the light, the volume, the stuff on the table. They can go in the middle of the phrasal verb or at the end of the phrasal verb. So, it's possible to say: "Turn the light off" or "turn off the light", or: "Turn the volume up", "turn up the volume". So you can put this in the middle of the phrasal verb or at the end of it.
So, we got five more to go guys, and after this I think you're going to be quite the domestic king or queen. Next we have:
Put away
So, "to put away stuff" means to return something to the place it's supposed to be, or to put it in the place it's supposed to be. So, if your partner comes home with groceries and says: "Hey, I did the groceries. Here, can you put these away?" This means like "Can you put the vegetables where the vegetables are supposed to go, the cans in the cabinets? Can you put away the milk in the fridge?" etc. So, put away the groceries; put them in their designated places. Put away the dishes. "Hey, I washed the dishes. Can you put the dishes away?" So the plates go in its cabinet, the mugs and cups go in its cabinet, etc. Another example, you can say "I folded the laundry. Can you just put it away? Put it in the closet; put the shirts where the shirts go, and the underwear where the underwear go." Wherever. "Could you put away the stuff on the table? There's a lot of random stuff. Can you put it in its designated place?" You can also say "Could you put the toys away? Could you put away the toys? They are all over the floor, I can't live like this, I refuse to live like this, and... Just put away the toys, kids. Just put them away."
Put back
"Put back" simply means to return. So, the difference with "put away" and "put back" - "put away" means put something in its designated place; "put back" means to return something to a place where you got it from. So, it's a slight distinction. For example: "Hey, can you put back the remote? The remote control for the TV, it's on the floor. Can you put it back beside the TV, or on the table beside the couch?" or "Could you put back the milk? The milk is on the table. It needs to go in the fridge." "Could you put back the books? Could you put the books back? I noticed that there are a bunch of books here, you were reading them, now you're not reading them. Can you put them back on the shelf?" Next, the salt or the salt shaker. So: "I don't need the salt anymore. I need to put back the salt shaker where it belongs"on the table or somewhere else in the kitchen. And: "Could you put back the DVDs? There are DVDs on the floor. Could you please put them back in the place they are supposed to be? Please return them where you got them from."
Take out/put out
So, you can use both of these in the same way. Here we have: Take out the garbage, put out the garbage, the recycling, the compost, the cat, the dog. So, you can take out the cat, take out the dog, put out the cat, put out the dog. This means to take something inside the house and put it outside the house. So, usually you do this with garbage, recycling, compost; if you have pets and the dog needs to pee: "Hey, can you put the dog out?" or "Can you take the dog out for a walk?" Another one for dogs and cats, if they need to pee outside, you can say: "Can you let the dog out?" or "Can you let the cat out?" All right? So you can take out garbage, take out animals, put out garbage, put out animals.
Throw away/throw
out
Another word to say this is "toss". "Hey, can you just toss this away? So: "throw away", "throw out the garbage". "Throw away" or "throw out", this junk or: "Throw this away" It means to discard it. Don't keep it anymore; we don't need it. Throw it away. Throw it out. Out of my house; away. You can also say: "Could you throw this away? Could you throw that out? It's old. Throw it out." "Could you throw out your old clothes?" So if you have old clothes and maybe they have rips and they're dirty from paint or something and you need to throw that stuff away. "Toss your old clothes. Throw away your old clothes. Throw out your old clothes" or donate them, but I'm using it in another example with "throw away" or "throw out". Donate is what you should probably do if your clothes are still in pretty good condition.
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