Hey, everyone. Welcome to this lesson on "20 Intransitive Phrasal Verbs". "Intransitive", this means these phrasal verbs do not have objects. Now, some examples of transitive phrasal verbs are: "My friend opened up a business." This means... "Business" is an object, my friend opened it, and he opened up a business. "I will call you back", "you" are the object and I will call you back, so these two examples: "Open up a business", "Call someone back", they both have objects which means they are transitive. These phrasal verbs that I will show you don't have objects, they just exist by themselves. They don't need an object after.
Break Down
"My car broke down." So, here, this means that your car stopped working. Now, you can't say, like: "My car broke down (something)", like if I ran over a motorcycle with my car, we can not say: "My car broke down a motorcycle." You can't say that. Okay? It's just: "My car broke down. My car stopped working." Other things that can break down: Your computer, your phone, usually mechanical things or electronic things.
Catch on
If something catches on, it means it starts to become popular. So, viral videos on YouTube catch on. For example: "That new dance is really catching on." It means that dance is becoming popular.
Die out
If something dies out or is dying out, or
has been dying out, it means it is slowly
dying, slowly decreasing
in popularity.
So, for example: "Blackberry has been dying out
for years, for many years."
The Blackberry is not as popular as it was or is not as popular as the iPhone
or Android phones, so the company's
popularity has been dying out.
If a species of animal, or insect, or anything
is going extinct, you can also say: "That
animal, that species
is dying out." Like bees, for example, are dying out across
the world, which means we will all be dead
soon.
Drop by
"Can we drop by the bank?" So: "to drop by", this means to make a quick stop, make a quick visit. Now, you're saying: "you said intransitive phrasal verbs have no object. Why is the bank here?" Well, you're not dropping the bank, you're not doing something to the bank. The bank is not an object, here. The bank is merely a location. So: "Can we drop by?", "Can we stop...?" You can also say: "Stop by". "Can we drop by the bank?", "Can we make a visit by the bank?", "Can we stop by grandma's house?", "Can we stop by the grocery store?", "Can we make a stop and then continue to another location?"
End up
"Where did you end up?" So: Where did you end your travels? What is your final location? Not only a physical location, it can also be like "Where did you end up in your career? Where did you finish in your career?". "I ended up working for Apple." Or: "I ended up working for Microsoft." I ended up doing something, my final location, my final destination in my work life or in my personal life, or a physical location, too, it can be. "Oh yeah. Where did you end up moving to?" "Oh, we ended up moving to London", for example.
Get back
"We got back from vacation yesterday." So: "to get back" in this context means to return. So: "We got back from vacation yesterday." We returned from vacation yesterday.
Go ahead
If you're telling someone to go ahead, you're telling them to go before you, and you will catch up with them later. You can say: "You go ahead. I will meet you there."So, you and your friend have a plan and you have to do something at home first, maybe wash your dishes or do the laundry you say: "Okay, you go ahead. I will meet you there. I will be, you know, 15 minutes late you go first."
Grow up
So: "to grow up" means to mature, where you became an adult or where you grew up. "They grew up in Brasilia", so that is where they were born, and that is where they became turned from children into adults, or adolescents. So: "You can't, like, grow up a person, grow up a thing, grow up an object. No object, intransitive. Okay? You can grow the flowers, you can grow things in a garden, but you can't grow up flowers. It doesn't really exist, that expression.
Hold on
"Could you hold on a minute?" So this just means to wait. So, if you ask someone to hold on, you can't say "hold on (+something)". You can only use: "hold on" or just wait. "Could you hold on a minute?"
Move in
The opposite of "move in" is "move out". When you get a new apartment, a new house, a new change where you are living and you move your furniture, you move all the things you have, your clothes, your bed, you can say: "Hey. When did you move in?" If you have a new neighbour, for example: "Oh, you're new. When did you move in?" You could say: "I moved in last week." And if you say: "move into", then you can have an object. You can say: "I moved into my apartment." But here, "move in", intransitive. Is it making sense?
Set off
"To set off" is used in a very specific context, this means that you start a journey at a specific time. So, for example: "We set off at 6 o'clock." This could be a present sentence or it could be a past sentence, because the past of "set" is "set", so you could say: "Our boat" or "We got in the car and started our journey at 6 o'clock.", "We set off at 6 o'clock." Or, in the future: "Oh, we set off at 6 o'clock. Be ready." "We leave at 6 o'clock."
Show up
"Show up" means to appear, what time you appeared at a place. So: "When are you going to show up?" If you're talking to a friend and they're waiting for you somewhere, like at the mall or in front of the movie theatre, or at a cafe somewhere and you're late, you can say: "When are you going to show up?" So, and they say "I'm going to show up late."or "I'm going to show up early.", "I'll show up when I want to show up." Whatever.
Slow down
You can use it like a command, to go slower. "You need to slow down." You can ask your partner who's sitting in the car next to you in the driver seat, they're driving too fast: "Okay, you need to slow down. Please slow down."
Speak out
So if you are vocal about a topic that most people are quiet about, you speak out. You can speak out against something. For example, speak out against injustice, against keeping prisoners in prison for a long time unlawfully. So, what's the example here? "If you're not happy, speak out." So if you're at a job and you want to give your friend some advice because they are not satisfied with the job: "If you're not happy, speak out. Say something."
Take off
"The plane takes off in 30 minutes." So this refers to the time a plane leaves. You can use it to talk about people, like the time you have to leave work, for example. "I'm taking off in five minutes.", "I need to take off early.", "I'm going to take off soon.", "I'm going to leave." The most common context, though, is with airplanes, when they take off from the airport and then land at another airport. So, to take off, to leave, or for a plane to leave the airport, leave the runway, go into the sky.
Turn out
The movie turned out okay." So, you can use "turn out" to talk about the final result of something, the final quality of something. So you can use it to talk about how a movie turned out, how the final result looked like. If you enjoyed it: "The movie turned out okay.", "The movie turned out really bad.", or "The movie turned out excellent." Whatever.
Pass out
Now, there is a way to use "pass out" in a transitive sentence for example, pass out advertisements, pass out papers, this means to distribute something. But in this context it is used intransitively. For example: "They drank until they passed out." So, "to pass out" means to lose consciousness, so they drank too much, too much alcohol, and they passed out. You can also use "pass out", like, in an informal, slang way to mean that you fell asleep because you're so tired. You can say: "Oh, I went home and I passed out in two minutes." So you lost consciousness, and you went to sleep very, very quickly as if someone punched you and you passed out.
Watch out
You can use this like a command. You can watch out for something. So: "Watch out for cars", this means be alert, be careful.
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