Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2552.
Chapter 2: What are confusing past tense verbs in English?
How to master confusing past tense verbs in English.
Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.
And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Do you get confused by English grammar when you have to put two-word phrases in the past tense?
Chapter 3: How can I identify my English level?
Today, clear up your confusion and get some great examples with a common phrasal verb. Do you often end up in situations where you know exactly what you want to say, but you don't have the English vocabulary words that you need in that moment? To succeed in English, you need nuanced English vocabulary. But first, you need to know your English level.
Take our free English level quiz to find out if you are B1, B2 or C1. Go to allearsenglish.com slash fluency score. That's allearsenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-Y-S-C-O-R-E. Hey, Aubrey, what's shaking? I'm doing great.
How are you, Lindsay?
Good.
Chapter 4: What are the differences between compound verbs and phrasal verbs?
Aubrey, how often do you blow dry your hair?
Hmm, about once or twice a week. Once or twice a week, okay. For recording on video, if you see my hair kind of straight looking nice, I blow dried my hair.
Okay.
We're so honored for that. I never do.
What about you, Lindsay? You're so luxurious.
Yeah. No, I never blow dry my hair and I don't even really brush my hair. I comb it in the shower, but I don't do anything because when you have curly hair, you can't do those things. It'll make it all poofy and weird.
Take special maintenance.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Special, special projects here. But yeah, why are we talking about this, Aubrey?
So this verb came up recently because native speakers struggle with it in the past. I think I just said I blow dried my hair and I was like blow dried. Michelle went to say it, you know, and she was like, wait, is it blow dried or blue dry? And I was like, let me think. Two-word verbs can be really confusing, especially in the past.
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Chapter 5: Why do native speakers struggle with past tense verbs?
So that's how it changes the meaning, right? Exactly.
So essentially all phrasal verbs are compound verbs, but not all compound verbs are phrasal verbs. And here's what's really tricky. Many words can be both depending on the context. Oh my gosh. For example, look up. What about this one? Look up. Yeah. So when it means the direction one is looking, it's just a verb with a preposition, right? A common verb.
I looked up from my book and saw she was leaving. But what if it's a phrasal verb, Lindsay?
When it's a phrasal verb, it would mean search for information, right? So I need to look up my flight times. I need to look up that word in the dictionary. That then changes the meaning of look slightly.
Exactly. It means like research actually has nothing to do with the direction one is looking. So yes, very interesting. So blow dry, this is a single verb. And there's a reason native speakers mess it up a lot in the past tense because it functions as a single verb, meaning to dry something with a blow dryer. It's not a typical phrasal verb where the meaning changes dramatically.
It just combines blow and dry to describe an action forming a compound verb.
Yeah. And also we would need a preposition there for it to be a phrasal verb, right? We don't have a preposition. Yeah. Yeah.
It's a compound verb. It's just combining two words. Yeah. But when you change the tense, you change the whole verb. So blow dry becomes blow dried, not blue dry. So she blow dried her hair this morning.
Yes. Nice.
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Chapter 6: What are examples of phrasal verbs and their meanings?
Lindsay, can I borrow your hairdryer? I blow dried my hair before coming over, but it's still damp. Sure.
I'm almost done frosting the cupcakes and then I'll grab it for you.
Oh, wow. Those look amazing. I can't wait for her to blow out the candles.
By the way, did you hear about Angie's bike tire last night? It totally blew out on her way home.
Oh, no. Seriously? I've been meaning to call her. She actually blew up at me over a misunderstanding, and we need to talk.
Oh, sorry to hear it. Hopefully she comes tonight and you two can chat. Oh, Aubrey, why'd you put cupcakes in this? I'm hungry now.
Now you want a cupcake? I do want a cupcake. Well, it's funny. Some cupcakes like at kids' birthday parties, I cannot stand. I don't know if listeners out there, if you have these where. Fake tasting? And it has this giant glob of frosting that will like stain everything. It's like purple or green or something.
Get those away from me. Sure.
Some cupcakes.
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