Advanced English Phrasal Verbs: C2 Rules And Uses 

It's really nice to hear such positive comments, and also to hear from another teacher like myself! Best wishes Rupert

I'm glad you liked it 😀

That's very kind! Thanks for commenting 🙂

That's very kind of you Mohammad! Thank you! 🙂

Thanks so much! Yes, it really is surprising how complex phrasal verbs are when you study them in detail. Have a great day! Rupert

It's lovely to hear from Peru! I hope this video helps you improve your use of phrasal verbs. Best wishes Rupert

I'm really pleased you found me easy to listen to! All the best Rupert

Thanks for commenting! I will do another one in the future! All the best Rupert 🙂

Thanks Deed! That's a great question! Yes, there is one situation where you could make "modal + have + been" take on a (kind of) future meaning. This is where something is due to happen in the future, but then for some reason the plan is changed and it is no longer due to happen. You could say "It's a shame it was cancelled. It would have been wonderful!" or "Perhaps it's a good thing because it might have cost too much money". In these sentences, you're imagining being in the future, looking back from that point of time at the event that didn't happen, and speculating on what the outcome of the event would be. Isn't English amazing?! 😁

Thanks Sir !!!

Hi Ismael! As soon as you add the object, it turns the listeners attention to another use of "get in", which is more or less covered by meaning 4 in the video (although if I was writing the video again I would have made this clearer 🙂) - the most common use of "get in" + object (where the object comes after) is to make something enter another thing (or someone enter a place) but what makes "get in" different to "enter" is that it communicates some sort of difficulty (e.g. an urgency, as I mentioned in meaning 4 in the video). So if I say "I got in my grandmother's house at midnight", yes we are aware of the time but the main point is that I entered her house and something about it wasn't easy (e.g. it was about to rain and I avoided getting wet). If you are being very informal, you might use "get in" in this context simply to mean enter "Have you got in the car yet?", but this isn't usually done with the time phrase. However, when we drop the object and just add the time e.g. "I got in at midnight", then the meaning changes slightly; we are now focused on the time that we entered (i.e. arrived), and are no longer concerned with any difficulty. Sorry I didn't explain this more clearly in the video but to be honest I was worried that 55 minutes was long enough and I didn't want to make the video any longer - I think this shows just how complex these phrasal verbs are 😁😁😁 Thanks for the comment and giving me the opportunity to explain in more depth! Best wishes Rupert

Hi Enrico - yes, they actually do 🙂 but they would never think "wow, there are so many meanings to these phrasal verbs" - they just instinctively use them correctly through context. A lot of English humor comes from mixing up phrasal verb contexts! Thanks for commenting 🙂