Name: English Tutor Nick P Verb Phrase (158) Bust Up
Uploaded: 2019-09-01T13:03:02.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 158. The verb phrase today is

bust up. Okay. We have a three meanings that we're going to cover today for bust

Reflexive pronouns

up.  All right. Let's look at the note here.  Now  bust ...  bust by itself.  Bust is commonly

used in speech but many claim it is a non-standard form of burst. So what does

that mean ? Remember when we say ...  when we see non-standard a dictionary,  it means

it's not really proper or correct. But this one's also important because this

one you hear in everyday speech or in movies a lot. You'll hear that somebody

got busted up.  So it could be like burst or like break. So if something gets

busted up,  it got broken up or burst up or something like that. But that's the

use that we have of it. So let's look at the first example here. If a couple busts

up, their relationship or marriage ends.  Or we have a second one here. A business..

if a business partnership could also bust up. So if that bust up,  that also

comes to an end. All right. So let's look at the one the note here where we have a

few examples of this. Example number one.  Jack's affair with another woman busted

up his marriage. Yeah. It's very common.  You may hear it that way. Number two.

There was too much infighting between the members of that rock group and it

caused them to bust up. Yeah. You often hear this. Maybe I don't know. Maybe their

personalities don't match anymore.  Sometimes some members get jealous of

the other members or who knows what happened ? But there was infighting and

they ended up busting up. They ended up breaking up. They ended up separating.

Okay. Let's look at the second meaning we have here. If something busts up,  it comes

apart and breaks into pieces. Yeah.  So let's look at a first example here.

She dropped a box of dishes that she packed for a move and most of them got

busted up. Yeah. That would be terrible.  It falls you probably would hear a

lot of it crack. If you're lucky maybe a few of them didn't get busted up in the it

falling or dropping. But probably most of them would. Okay. So they broke into a

number of pieces. All right. The second example we have for this one. The

earthquake shook and knocked down that wall clock. It got all busted up. So when

it fell maybe you can't fix it anymore. It broke it into many pieces. Okay. And the third

one. The last one here. If someone gets busted up. So if a person gets busted up,

he or she gets beaten up. Or this is one way you might hear it

if you speak bad about my mother,  I'm going to bust you up. You know,  somebody

might say it that way.  I don't know maybe somebody insulted their mother or

insulted of that family and they're this ... they're warning them. If  you,  you keep

talking bad I'm going fight you.  Something like that. Okay. And the second

one here. Did you see what happened to Tom ? He got busted up in a bar fight.

Maybe he said the wrong thing to a person in the bar they are drunk you know,  and maybe

he ended up in the hospital. He got beaten up So he got busted up. Okay.

Good.  I hope you got it. I hope it is clear.  Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.