Name: Fill up, fill out or fill in: what's the difference? Learners' Questions
Uploaded: 2020-07-01T17:07:25.000Z
Duration: 4 min 9 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

What's the difference between Philip fill out and fill in?

Sentences with would like

That's what Island Maria on YouTube would like to know.

Present continuous

And that's what we're covering in this learners question.

Okay, guys, before we get into it, don't forget to hit, subscribe and click that bell so that we can keep you updated with all our latest stuff.

Imagine being the first person to know that it was your learners question that we were answering.

And if you have a question for learners questions, there's the email learning dot English at BBC dot co dot UK.

Okay, so the first thing to know about fill out filling and fill up is that allow three freeze all verbs that is a verb, plus a particle, which is a proposition or an adverb.

Something means to put something in an empty space to make full and all of the meanings of fill out, filling and fill up are related to this base, meaning in some way.

So one of the meanings of fill up is very, very similar to fill i e.

There's no difference between I filled the car with fuel and I filled up the car with fuel, except that the up implies filling to completion.

There's no more space in the thing that you have filled up.

Imagine you get to someone's party and they say There's plenty of food.

Fill yourself up and of course, you eat and eat and eat, and then they say, Have another piece of cake You say I can't.

There's no more space Now let's talk about fill out.

In its most common context, fill out refers to completing a form or official document of some kind, usually one where spaces have been provided for you to write the answers.

When joining a gym, they might say, Please fill out this form.

This means they become larger or thicker.

So after three months of the gin, you could say, Wow, John, you have really filled out.

OK, guys, let's take a break for a second so that I can tell you all about the Learners Questions playlist on YouTube.

All of the current learners questions in one easy T views place.

And, of course, if you have a question for learners questions, you can email us.

It's right up there learning dot English at BBC dot co dot UK.

We would love to hear from Okay, now let's talk about fill in.

One of the meanings of fill in is very much like Phil.

For example, the council filled in ah, hole in the road.

Another meaning of fill in is very much like fill out when talking about documents.

So instead of saying please fill out this form, you could say, Please fill in this form.

Another meaning of fill in is when you temporarily replace someone who is unable to fulfill their role or do their job, you fill in for someone, for example.

Finally and my personal favorite, you can fill somebody in on something that means tell them the information that they're missing.

Let me fill you in on what you missed while way I hope that answers your question I luminaria.

If anybody else has a question for learners questions, don't hesitate to contact us on this.

Email learning dot English at BBC dot co dot UK.

Thanks for watching all the way to the end of the video.

If you want even more great content, we've got plenty more videos on the channel.

 So subscribe and you'll never miss a thing. 