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Clean up the house

what's the answer Vanessa thanks so much Dan the answer to question number one is my mom is coming to visit I need to clean up the house why is cleanup the best phrasal verb for...

Course: Making sense of tricky verbsSection: Phrasal verbs with upSubtitles: en

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up

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what's the answer Vanessa thanks so much

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Dan the answer to question number one is

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my mom is coming to visit I need to

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clean up the house why is cleanup the

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best phrasal verb for this sentence well

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the rule that we're gonna be talking

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about today with up phrasal verbs is all

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of these verbs are talking about doing

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an action but also finishing that action

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so you are cleaning the house but you

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are also finishing cleaning the house

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and that is what the up part of this

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phrasal verb signifies that you are yes

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you're cleaning the house maybe you're

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vacuuming or mopping or dusting or

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tidying up but you are also finishing

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the task so let's see how this is used

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in other sentences for questions 2 3 4

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and 5 let's go to question number 2

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question

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- at the end of the month we usually all

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of our purchases we usually use up all

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of our purchases we usually add up all

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of our purchases we usually heat up all

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of our purchases use up add up heat up

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