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MAIRO VERGARA
ADVANCED PHRASAL VERBS COURSE
Transcript - Lesson 15
Hi, this is Melissa Faulkner coming to you from Durham, North Carolina.
Today we’re going to talk about three different phrasal verbs: ‘get away’,
‘get out’ and ‘go out’.

Now two of these phrasal verbs have the word ‘get’. ‘Get’ a lot of times
means to receive something or to have something given to you. To get
something means to receive something. But in these two cases, ‘get’
actually means… it’s a sort of movement. So you’re getting to a different
place or you’re moving your state of being or your location. So we’ll talk
about that version of ‘get’ and those two phrasal verbs - ‘get away’ and
‘get out’. For each phrasal verb I’ll give you three sentences and then
we’ll talk about an explanation of how to use that phrasal verbs in each
of those sentences. So let’s go on to our first phrasal verb: ‘get away’.
Sentence number one:

As I walked past the fence a huge Saint Bernard started running at

me and barking so I had to get away quick.

Now in this case, a Saint Bernard is a dog. It’s a very large dog that can
seem very scary and you might not want to be near it especially if it starts
barking at you. So in this case as the person is walking past the fence,
the Saint Bernard starts barking, you can imagine maybe they get a little
scared so they want to get away quick. So in this case to get away means
either to escape or to sort of break free or get away quickly. So you can
imagine that they wanted to get away quickly from the Saint Bernard, they
wanted to move their location. Sentence number two:

My dad has been really stressed at work recently so our family

decided to get away and go on a vacation to the Bahamas.

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Now in this case, ‘get away’ means to leave or to go somewhere to be

safe or to be in a better place. So in this case, their dad has been at work.
He has been working a lot recently and he’s been really stressed, so you
can imagine that maybe he wants to take a break from work. He wants to
get away from his work. So the family are going to go on a vacation, they
are going to get away and go to a better place where they can relax.
They’re going to get away from the work. Sentence number three:

Helen called a baby sitter to watch the twins so her and her husband
Dave could get away for the night and go to a quiet dinner together.

So in this case again, ‘get away’ means to leave or to go somewhere to be

safe or to be in a better place. So you can imagine Helen has been taking
care of her two twins. Maybe it’s been a lot of work, she hasn’t slept very
much and maybe she wants to get away for the night. She wants to get
away from her house and from her twins and from caring for them and
go to a nice dinner with her husband. She’s getting away. She’s getting
away from the house and going somewhere else.

Let’s move on to our next phrasal verb ‘get out’. Now ‘get out’ in most of
these cases means to break free or to escape. So you’re normally in a
situation that’s either dangerous or that’s unsafe and you want to get out
from that situation. There’s a couple of other definitions as well. We’ll
talk about those.

So let’s talk about sentence number one:

Harry was trying to come out with a plan to get out of jail even
though protection was very high.

So in this case, Harry is in jail and maybe he wants to escape, he wants to

break free so he’s trying to come up with a plan. So he wants to get out
of jail. He wants to escape or break free from jail. Sentence number two:

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The chess club wanted to get out the news about their championship
victory so they ran an ad in the school newspaper.

In this situation, ‘get out’ means to become known, particularly

information. So if you say that you want to get some information out, you
would say you want to get out the news, you want to get out the
information. So in this case the chess club had won a championship, they
wanted everybody to know about it, so they wanted to get out the
information by putting an article in the school newspaper. That way,
everyone would know about it. They would get out the information.
Sentence number three:

Jamal’s mum yelled at him to get out from underneath the car
because it was dangerous.

In this case, ‘get out’ again means to get free or escape. So Jamal was
underneath the car, you can imagine maybe it was dangerous. If someone
had turned on the car, maybe he would have gotten burnt or maybe he
would have gotten hurt underneath so she wants him to get out. She
wants him to move his location and escape from being underneath the
car.

Let’s talk about our third phrasal verb ‘go out’. This one has a couple of
different meanings and it also still means movement. So you’re moving
your location, you’re going from inside somewhere to outside
somewhere. Often times, in this case, it means something social or it
means interacting with other people. Sentence number one:

After working on my paper for eight hours straight, Tom decided it

was time to go out with his friends.

So you can imagine this situation, Tom has been working really hard.
Maybe he’s been typing his paper, maybe doing research. Maybe he’s
getting a little tired of doing this. So he’s been working hard for eight
hours straight so now he wants to go out with his friends. In this case it

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means to go out of your house literally and to be social. So Tom is going

to leave his house where he’s been by himself for eight hours straight
and he’s going to go out with his friends. Normally that means going to a
restaurant, going to get drinks, maybe going out to play some sorts but
in this case it means he’s leaving his house and he’s going to go out to
be social with some of his friends. Sentence number two:

When the storm came, we knew the lights would go out.

Now this is a little bit different definition. ‘Go out’ in this sense means to
become extinguished or to turn off. So you can imagine in a storm
sometimes the electricity is messed with, sometimes the electricity will go
out. It will turn off. It will stop working. So in this case they knew that
when the storm was coming, maybe the winds would be really heavy, the
rain would be really heavy so they knew that the electricity would go out,
the lights would go out. They would turn off and it would be dark and
they would have to look for flashlights or something like that. So in that
case ‘go out’ means to extinguish or to turn off. Sentence number three:

My heart goes out to the victims of the earthquake because I know

they have suffered and lost a lot of their belongings.

Now in this case it’s a little bit different definition too because it means
to be empathetic or to be sympathetic towards a situation. So in this case
the victims of the earthquake probably lost a lot of things. Maybe their
homes were damaged, maybe their belongings were lost in all the rubble.
So this person is saying that their heart goes out. That means that their
heart is literally feeling for the other people that have lost things. They’re
feeling sympathetic, they maybe want to help them in some way, offer
some donations or something like that. Their heart is going out. That’s a
feeling of empathy or a feeling of sadness for someone else.

So in all three of these cases, we have ‘get away’, ‘get out’ and ‘go out’
and most of the time they have a sense of movement. Moving from one

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location to another or from one state to another. I hope these definitions

have been helpful for you to understand these phrasal verbs and we’ll
talk in the future. Thanks.

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