18 Important Phrasal Verbs for Information! Common Phrasal Verbs + Test

[@sergioestuardocontrerasova4577]

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[@DerAtalaya]

Thank you for the video! But I don´t understand why on videos, in student books and activity books, native English speaking teachers put the infinitives without "to". I would never do that, because "To find out" is differente from find out. To find out= averiguar and Find out!= Averigua! I teach English for more than 30 years and I tell my students : To play= jugar(the name of the action, INFINITIVE) and Play= juega (It´s a command, IMPERATIVE). Could you help me understand that, please? God bless you and good job!

[@EverythingEnglishwithJohn]

Hi! Nice question! Long answer: I don’t like to incorporate much grammar into my lessons because I feel like all those extra words confuse students. But generally we have “to + verb” as our complete infinitive form. This is really “to” plus the verb’s “stem” form or “basic” form. This is the direct translation to what you would find in romance languages like Spanish, French, Italian, etc. As native speakers we don’t actually learn this grammar in school, only when we learn another language, because it comes naturally for us (at least I think that’s the reason). We just know where to put the “to” and I think it’s because English grammar is generally pretty basic. Short answer: “to work” and “work” aren’t very different at all, we just have to remember where to put the word “to,” and this includes the imperative form which we can remember by context. From your perspective it makes complete sense to add the “to” because you’re using a French base but for us it’s just natural to remember where the “to” goes because of simple English verb forms.

[@EverythingEnglishwithJohn]

Spanish base* sorry Verb forms in Spanish will change a lot but not so much in English

[@DerAtalaya]

@@EverythingEnglishwithJohn Thank you, John, for your quick answer. I agree with you. As native speakers we don´t need much grammar, but if you are learning English in a foreign country, you need a little bit of grammar. Thank you again! Phrasals are very important. I am still learning them and it is difficult for me to apply most of them in my conversations. My fiirst language is Spanish and I teach also French, German and English

[@nataliakupriyanova6805]

Thanks a lot! Very useful, like always.🎉

[@EverythingEnglishwithJohn]

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[@mohsenbou]

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Z... really great so useful...

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[@judyviva7589]

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Thanks Judy!

[@Dareios074]

Slipped out=spilled the beans😊

[@EverythingEnglishwithJohn]

Slip out - unintentional Spill the beans - generally intentional

[@Dareios074]

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[@EverythingEnglishwithJohn]

Small differences to be aware of, nuances of languages in general :)