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hello everyone welcome back today we're

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going to talk about a common English

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phrasal verb used by Rachel in season 8

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episode 9 of friends let's see what it

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means and how to use it in this episode

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Monica invites an old high school friend

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will to Thanksgiving dinner will gets

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upset when he finds out Rachel is coming

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because he hates her in high school

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Rachel was mean to him and made fun of

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him for his weight but Rachel doesn't

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remember him at all at dinner Rachel

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notices will staring at her then will

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starts forming the words I hate you with

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his lips Rachel talks to Monica and says

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I think he's trying to mouth something

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to me but I can't make it

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out the phrasal verb makes someone or

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something out can have a few different

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meanings depending on the context in

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this clip it means to see hear or

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understand someone or something

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especially when it's not very clear easy

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to do

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so Rachel uses the phrasal verb make it

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out to express that she can't understand

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what will is trying to communicate

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because it isn't clear to

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her I think he's trying to mount

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something to me but I can't make it

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out let's see more

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examples Mia's handwriting was so messy

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that her teacher could hardly make out

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what she had written

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Jane met her new neighbor but his

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behavior was so unpredictable that she

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couldn't make him out at

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all nobody can make out why he changed

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his

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mind the radio signal was weak and we

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could barely make out what the announcer

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was

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saying that's all for today thanks for

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watching and see you next time