Aubrey Carter
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All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
So the difference between compound verb and phrasal verb, what do we think it is?
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Different, right?
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
A phrasal verb is a type of compound verb that forms a new idiomatic meaning.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
And this is the key.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
It has to change the meaning when you put the verb and the preposition together, right?
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Exactly.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
So we know that the phrase blow off does not mean the same thing as blow.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
So that's how it changes the meaning, right?
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Exactly.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
When it's a phrasal verb, it would mean search for information, right?
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
So I need to look up my flight times.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
I need to look up that word in the dictionary.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
That then changes the meaning of look slightly.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Yeah.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
And also we would need a preposition there for it to be a phrasal verb, right?
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
We don't have a preposition.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Yeah.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Yeah.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Yes.
All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2552: How to Master Confusing Past Tense Verbs in English
Nice.