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  • Hi.

  • Welcome to www.engvid.com.

  • I'm Adam.

  • In today's lesson we're going to look at another phrasal verb using the verb "come".

  • Now, again, what are phrasals?

  • Phrasals are a verb and a preposition that together can have many different meanings

  • apart from the words themselves.

  • Now, I know that there are many phrasal verbs with the verb "come", but I've only chosen

  • these to...

  • These are the most common ones we're going to look at today.

  • If there are other ones that are not on the list, by all means, please put them in the

  • forum on www.engvid.com in the forum section if you want to talk about other ones, if you

  • want to ask about other ones, but today we're going to concentrate on these ones here: "come

  • up with" and "come up against"...

  • Actually I should probably just put this here so there's no confusion.

  • "Come up with", "come up against", "come across", "come around", "come out", sometimes "come

  • out with", "come apart", "come on", "come into", "come over", and "come in".

  • So, let's get started.

  • So: "come up with".

  • When you come up with something, means that you either produce it or that you think about it. Okay?

  • So if you come up with a plan, for example, it means, like we had a problem in the office

  • or in the business and we needed to fix it, and I asked all my staff to come up with a

  • plan or come up with an idea, or come up with a solution to try to fix this.

  • So, somebody came up with it, means that they thought about it.

  • They used their imagination, they thought, thought, thought, and they came up with a plan.

  • But you can also use it with other things, not just ideas.

  • So, I have a project but I don't have enough money for this project, so I ask my friend

  • to help me out, maybe talk to some of his wealthy friends, and maybe sell them on the idea.

  • And to my surprise, he came up with the money, means he produced it or he found it.

  • He was able to get this money.

  • So: "come up with", thought or actual thing, usually money we use it with.

  • "Come up with the money", and we would say "the money" more than "a money", obviously.

  • Okay?

  • "Come up against".

  • So: "come up against" means you suddenly face an obstacle or you...

  • Or a struggle, something...

  • Some sort of problem, but usually it's an obstacle.

  • Now, this could be physical.

  • I'm walking along a hiking trail and suddenly there...

  • Or it's not suddenly, but before a tree fell over and blocked the way.

  • So I came up against this tree, and now I have to figure out how to get around or over

  • it, etc.

  • More commonly we talk about this in terms of abstract ideas.

  • So, I am trying to run for President of my country and I thought: "Okay, easy.

  • Everybody loves me.

  • I don't really have much competition."

  • But suddenly the opposition party put in a candidate and I've...

  • I have to come up against him.

  • Basically I have to come up against a worthy opponent and now I have to fight, and I have

  • to struggle to continue on where I'm going.

  • So that's come up against something not good.

  • "Come across", again, there's the literal one, means come across something, so basically

  • move.

  • But again, I'm...

  • Somebody is coming across to my side.

  • But more commonly: "to come across" and we usually use it with "as".

  • If someone comes across as something else, it means he or she appears to be something

  • that maybe he or she is not.

  • Okay?

  • So I met this person the other day, met him for the first time and he really came across

  • as a friendly guy, but then later I found out that he's really not a very nice guy at

  • all.

  • He's a...

  • I can't use the word here on the video, but there's another word for him that he actually is.

  • So he came across as friendly, but in reality, not very friendly.

  • Okay?

  • "Come around" also has a few meanings.

  • One, basically if I want to...

  • Somebody is trying to change my opinion, or I want to change somebody else's opinion,

  • okay?

  • So I persuade this person to think that my position is better, and I convince, and I

  • talk and I talk and I talk, and finally this person thinks: "Yeah, you know what?

  • Maybe you're right."

  • So he came around, he came to my side of the argument.

  • "Come around"-sorry-can also mean if you're passed out and somebody's trying to revive

  • you, they give you some smelling salt or they throw water on your face, and you come around.

  • "Oh.

  • Oh, where am I?

  • Oh, okay, I know where I am."

  • I came around, I regained consciousness, I regained my bearings.

  • Okay, that's "come around".

  • Now, a little bit more casual use, if I say...

  • I see a friend of mine, I haven't seen him for a long time and I say: "Yeah, I live just

  • over down the street.

  • Come around sometime".

  • "Come around" means visit in a very casual way.

  • "Just come around.

  • Whenever you're ready, come to my place."

  • "Come out".

  • Now, a few meanings here.

  • "Come out" basically means just step outside of something, so come out of the house.

  • "Come out.

  • Come out, let's go play tennis", whatever.

  • "Come out", the more common use...

  • And you might have heard: "Come out of the closet".

  • So, this is basically a gay person, or a lesbian person, or a LGBQT, I'm not sure how many

  • letters there are now, but if somebody comes out, means they reveal their secret.

  • They don't hide anymore.

  • So, before we say they were hiding in the closet, and then they came out of the closet,

  • means they made it public that they are gay, or lesbian, or whatever.

  • "Come out with", if I say...

  • Somebody's trying to tell me something and I'm very impatient, I say: "Just come out

  • with it already."

  • Just say it.

  • Come out with, say what's on your mind, don't...

  • Don't wait.

  • Okay?

  • Now, if I also say...

  • I invite my friend to come out, so I say: "Yeah, I'm going out with my friends to a

  • movie next week.

  • Why don't you come out?"

  • Basically: Come with us.

  • Okay?

  • That's basically what it means, it means go out and have a good time.

  • "Come apart", so "apart" means separated, so "come apart" basically means something

  • falls apart or is destroyed.

  • So, for example, my shirt, if somebody pulls on it, it will come apart, it will fall apart.

  • But we can also talk about a person's emotions.

  • So if a person has just...

  • Has come apart, it means he or she lost control.

  • They just lost their emotional control, they...

  • Something happened, or maybe they're having a nervous breakdown, but we say they've come

  • apart, they've lost control, like their inside...

  • Their emotional insides are destroyed.

  • Okay.

  • Let's move on.

  • "Come on", again, a few meanings.

  • "Come on!" means hurry up.

  • "Come on already, let's go.

  • Come on, come on."

  • So this is a very common use of the word "come on", to hurry somebody up.

  • But another meaning is somebody, like, let's say tells me a story, and he says: -"You know,

  • I won the lottery.

  • I won 100 million dollars."

  • -"Come on!" means like: "Really?", or "I don't believe you", or "You're joking".

  • That's another meaning of the word "come on".

  • Another meaning is more of a sexual nature.

  • If I go to a bar and I come on to a girl, means I'm trying to get with her.

  • Okay?

  • I'm maybe saying some things to her, maybe trying to touch her a little bit.

  • Usually it's not a good thing.

  • It's not a positive meaning of the word "come on", and sometimes we just say it as a noun,

  • it's: "a come-on".

  • "Come-on" is one word, basically meaning somebody trying to get something from somebody else,

  • man or woman, could go both way.

  • "Come into", when you come into something, and again, like the most common is money:

  • "Come into some money", what does that mean?

  • Basically means you inherit or somehow you found or managed to get.

  • So, my friend's grandfather passed away last week and it was very sad, but suddenly he's

  • come into some money, means he inherited.

  • Now he has a little bit of money that he didn't have before.

  • You can also say: "Something comes into fashion".

  • If something comes into fashion, it becomes fashionable.

  • So, fashion is more of an idea or a circle that everybody tries to live in, and something

  • comes into fashion, means everybody's starting to use it, everybody's starting to think it's

  • popular and like it, etc.

  • We can also say: "Come into use", it's basically the same idea.

  • So, 20 years ago the internet was just starting to come into use, but now it's everywhere.

  • So: "come into use", starting to become more and more popular as something to use.

  • Okay, so now we have: "come over".

  • Now, for some reason I get asked about this one all the time.

  • People don't know what "come over" means.

  • It's very simple.

  • It means: Come over here.

  • So if I say to somebody: "Why don't you come over sometime?" it means: Come visit.

  • I'm inviting you to come visit me wherever I am, usually my house.

  • So...

  • But you can also call somebody on the phone, say: "Hey.

  • What are you doing?

  • Nothing?

  • Oh, can I come over?"

  • Technically it should be: "Can I go over?"

  • but everybody just says "come over".

  • It means: Can I visit?

  • Very simple, that's really the only meaning to "come over".

  • Now, "come in" has a few meanings.

  • The literal meaning means come in, means come in from outside.

  • So it's cold outside, I say: "Come in.

  • Warm up a little bit."

  • So: "Come inside".

  • Now, if you go to a store and you say: -"Oh, I heard there's a new book by this author.

  • I want to buy it."

  • -"Oh, it hasn't come in yet."

  • Basically means it hasn't arrived, so like fashions, or like new technology, if you go

  • to a store to buy a new phone or whatever, your model hasn't come in yet, it hasn't arrived

  • in stock.

  • Now, we also use it, for example, in sports.

  • In a race everybody's racing and I finish the race, but I didn't win, I came in third place.

  • So, basically in what position you finished the thing.

  • Your sports team didn't finish at the top of the league, but they came in second which

  • is not bad at all.

  • Another meaning for "come in", we also sometimes say: "Come in handy".

  • If something comes in handy it means it's very useful.

  • "Oh, this is a good pen.

  • This will come in handy when I'm trying to write my notes."

  • Right?

  • So it comes in handy, very useful.

  • Now, another meaning that's sometimes a little bit confusing, if you say to somebody: "Here's

  • a situation.

  • We need to...

  • We need to fix this, and that's where you come in."

  • It means: "This is where you play your role."

  • So I'm just going to write this for you.

  • This is where you come in, this is where you start doing what you do.

  • Right?

  • But you can talk about anything, like, it doesn't have to be a person.

  • So we're talking about the government and we have an election-excuse me-and we have

  • all these candidates, and there's always going to be a problem of who gets the most coverage,

  • that's where the media comes in.

  • Okay?

  • So that's where the media enters this discussion, enters this equation.

  • The media will play a role in deciding who gets more coverage on TV.

  • Okay?

  • So that's basically "in", and we've come...

  • I've looked at all of these, and let's go a little bit of a review.

  • And I just remembered, I just came across another meaning to "come across", okay?

  • "Come across" also means to find by accident or to discover something.

  • Sorry, I forgot to mention that one before, but I just came across it right now as I was

  • looking.

  • If you're walking along the street and you come across a wallet, you pick it up: "Oh",

  • you find out who it belongs to, and you return it to them.

  • Or if you're reading a newspaper and you come across some very important information, so

  • you discover this information and you use it for whatever you need to use it for.

  • But now we're actually really good, I've come across all the meanings that we need to use.

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  • There's also a quiz you can take to test your knowledge of these phrasals.

  • And come back again, see you... See us again soon. Bye-bye.

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