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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 170. The verb phrase today is to

  • turn out. Now turn out is a very common verb phrase. We're actually going to cover

  • 9 meanings today and 9 uses today. Yeah, and all of them are actually pretty

  • common. Okay. So anyway, let's take a look at the first one. Here's the first one. If

  • people turn out for an event they arrive in large numbers. So you could say that

  • supporters turned out in large numbers for that politicians rallies. I guess you

  • could go the other way with it, you could say they didn't turn ... they didn't

  • turn out very well. Or they didn't turn out you know in large numbers or they

  • didn't turn out and as much was as expected. But we do use it. We use it a

  • lot in this way. All right. Let's look at number two. To point or fold outward. Okay.

  • So here your collar is not set right. It means not in the right position. You need

  • to turn it out. So for example this was my collar and it was kind of pointed in

  • like this, You would tell somebody to turn it out . Turn it out

  • so that it's facing the right way. It's facing in the correct way.

  • All right. Number 3 here. To result or end up. Yeah. This is a really common one. I

  • cover this all the time. Luckily everything turned out well. Things may

  • not turn out well. Things may turn out badly or poorly , but we often say

  • something turned out in a certain way. All right. Number 4. Go to bed. I'm really

  • tired I'm going to turn out for the night , but

  • that's a way that we often use it. You are going to turn out for the night. It means

  • you're just going to go to bed. You're ready for bed. That's enough. You had enough for

  • the day, it's time to rest. Okay . Number 5. Yes.Turn out can also mean

  • to turn off in regard to lights. Yes. So not only do we say turn off the lights

  • we might say turn out the lights. So this one is really, really very common as well.

  • Remember to turn out the lights before going to bed. So that's ... I don't know how

  • many times I've heard people say that. All right number 6 here. It says to produce

  • something. Okay. That car factory turns out over 1,000 cars per day. So that's how

  • many they produce per day. Maybe, maybe they produce around 1100 or 1050 or

  • something. But they, they produce more than a thousand every day. All right. Number

  • seven here. To train or produce someone with skills. Okay. That police academy you

  • know, that's where you, you know, they train you to be a police officer. That

  • police academy turns out over 2,000 new policemen every year. So when they do it

  • they train them. Maybe they train them several times a year. But if you add up the

  • whole year maybe they do. They turn out over 2,000 each year. Okay. Number eight. To

  • send someone out somewhere or possibly even evict them. All right. So even though I

  • stayed at that hotel for two nights, they turned me out on the third night because

  • my room was pre-booked for the festival. Yes, especially if you try to get it for a

  • festival. Maybe they arrive before the festival. They still might have some room

  • before the festival. Once the festival begins somebody probably booked that one

  • months ago or many, many months ago. So then the hotel will ask you to leave if

  • they've already taken the money for that room. Okay and number nine. To outfit or

  • adorn. So like to supply somebody with an outfit or adorn means like decorate

  • somebody or something. So this is also kind of a common one. She turned out for

  • the party in a sexy dress. So when she came to the party. She arrived to the

  • party she was wearing a sexy dress. So she turned out for the party in a sexy

  • dress. Okay. Good. Great. I hope you got it. I hope they were

  • useful. Like we said before you know, probably you might have known a few of

  • these but you probably didn't know them all. So I hope it was informative. I hope hope it was

  • useful. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 170. The verb phrase today is to

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