Name: PHRASAL VERBS for hanging out with friends
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Gerund

Hey there, Ronnie coming at you, and I'm going to teach you about hanging out with your friends.

To-infinitive

I don't think I need to teach you that, I think you know how to do that.

Present continuous

But some phrasal verbs, yeah, phrasal verbs, some expressions we have, and some social clues that you're going to need to pay attention to if you go to somebody's house, because sometimes if you go to somebody's house and you hang out, it's time for you to leave, and people will do certain things to maybe not say, but to let you know it's time to get out of my house because I want to go to sleep.

And maybe you're a house guest, or maybe you're hosting a party.

Hosting a party means you have your friends at your house, or you're the host to someone who has the party at their house, or has friends at their house.

Maybe you're the host, and you want your guests to leave.

I'm like, I'm going to bed, bye, but I'll teach you different phrases and different ways to get them out in a less direct way, just to be nice.

Let's do it my way, and oh, no, we're here.

Please, I don't know why we use a different preposition with in and by, but you can call your friend and say, hey, I'm going to drop in tomorrow.

It just means that you're going to go and visit the person, you're not actually going to drop something.

You can say, yeah, I'm going to drop by tomorrow at about 6.

The other way that we use this phrasal verb is drop off.

So let's say that you have a bottle of water that you would like to give your friend, because you're generous like that, and you say, oh, do you know what?

You can also just say, I'm going to drop off the water tomorrow.

This means you're going to go to their house, give them the water, and then that usually tells the person you're going to leave at some point.

You usually don't hang out for a long time or stay.

It just again means you're going to go to the person's house for a short time.

You're telling the person, I'm going to come to your house, we're going to hang out for a little bit, we're going to visit, and then I'm going to leave, so, you know, it's okay.

You don't need to make a bed for me or prepare a dinner.

I know the person's only going to bother me for one hour at my house.

So these phrases, drop in, swing by, and pop in, short time, in and out.

Uh-oh, now, if somebody wants to hang out, this is where we get into some...

So if I say to my best friend, hey, do you want to hang out?

And I don't say, do you want to hang out?

So it's going to be sounding like this, do you wanna, do you wanna, hey, do you want to hang out tomorrow?

Usually, when you hang out with someone, there's no time limit.

You don't say, oh, I'm going to leave, one hour, hanging out.

Because hang out is more casual, and you're like, you can do anything you want, really.

So if you're hanging out with someone, be prepared.

They might stay a bit too long, and you're going to want them to leave.

All of these expressions are going to work in the past, too.

So we can say, oh, you know, oh, he dropped by for, like, 10 minutes, and he was busy, and he left.

He swung by, whoo, he's like, cars in, whoo, just swinging by.

He swung by yesterday for a visit, we had some eggnog, and he left.

So we don't say pop it, we say he popped in.

Oh, he popped in for, like, I don't know, like 20 minutes, and then he had to leave.

Maybe people don't like you, they just stay 20 minutes.

But if someone hangs out or in the past hung out, oh, what did you do yesterday?

Oh, yeah, I hung out with Jen for, like, five hours.

We had such a wicked time, we had such a great time.

We hung out, we went to the movies, we went to her house, we ate some food, it was great.

We have to be careful with some other words, so hang out is how we speak naturally, right?

If you're kind of an older person, you might use the word visit, so maybe you would hear grandparents say, oh, my granddaughter visited me yesterday, it was great.

Or your parents, like, mom, I'm going to come and visit you for a short time, and...

You can use it, but just be aware that we mostly say hang out.

When we get to a certain age, we do not play with our grandmother, we do not play with our friends.

When you say play with someone, it means you're having some kind of sexual relation, so please, the word play, don't say it.

I would never call my best friend and say, hey, do you want to play with me today?

Oh, well, friendship boundaries have kind of changed, so be careful.

These are expressions we have when people stay a bit too long.

The first one, probably the most common one, is people wear out your welcome.

If you wear something out, it means you use it too much to the point where it's almost broken.

So, if you wear out your welcome, oh, when you first get to the...

Oh, welcome to my house, hey, I have some cookies, I made them.

And after a couple hours, you're like, where are the cookies?

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