Phrasal verbs, there are so many phrasal verbs in the English language we certainly can't count them. One of the most important things about phrasal verbs that we must remember is that they come in two very distinct forms literal and idiomatic, literal. If you can see it happening, probably literal. If you can't see it happening, it's probably idiomatic. In other words, it has a different meaning. If I said to you right now, hey, go on, and you understand me to say something like walk, hey, walk that way, or go on? Well, that means to do something, right. And I can physically see myself walking. So that's probably going to be literal. Hey, go on. Today, we're going to start with that very phrasal verb go on. It really means to continue. It could mean to walk somewhere. But in this case, if someone says to you, hey, Guan, let's say you're talking to someone you're explaining, describing telling someone a story, maybe how your day went something like that. And they say, Oh, go on. In other words, continue. You can also take on other meanings. Somebody says something to you, that's not easy to believe. Maybe you know, it's not true. And the first thing you say is, Hey, stop saying those things go on, it really means that you don't believe something. Here are a couple examples. I wish class would finish but my professors lecture just keeps going on and on and on. So in this case, it means something is continuing happening for a long time. That's a very good start for phrasal verbs for today's lesson. Here's another one carry out. This is often used to perform a task. In other words, I need you to do something for me maybe at work, hey, I need you to carry out that project, I need you to do something for me. It might be used for an assignment, something like that, to carry out that assignment, again as a task or an assignment. Those are phrasal examples. In other words, I can't actually see you doing something when I use the term carry out, but carry out also has a literal definition. Here's an example. Grandma, let me help you carry out the boxes to the car to carry something in your hands right to the car wherever. Again, this is going to be a literal definition. What about the phrasal verb set up? set up can be used a number of ways to establish someone as something in other words, let me help you do something to help establish, in this case to set up a business something like that. Here we're going to set up a business. An example might be my father gave me some money to help me set up my new business to start right to start my new business.

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