2020-01-25
6 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome to our podcast for this week, where we try to help you to understand some aspects of the english language, where you can help with your conversational English, business English, and just a general understanding of certain grammar points.
So, as always, if you want to contact me, you'll get my contact details at the end of each of the podcasts.
So in the first podcast that I have for you this week, we're going to look at some phrasal verbs, and in this context, we're going to look at themed phrasal verbs.
So the theme for these phrasal verbs are those connected to the theme of weather.
Okay, so something we all like to talk about and we all like to occupy ourselves with, because whether you're living in the UK or France or Spain or wherever, the weather is always a very topical aspect, particularly in northern Europe.
So let's look at some of these cloud over.
So, to cloud over means when the sky begins and eventually is covered in gray cloud, whether light gray or dark gray.
So we can wake up and say, oh, it has clouded over.
So the day started bright and sunshine blue sky.
But as the day grew older or as the day progressed, it clouded over, meaning the clouds covered the sky.
And at the beginning of the day, we can use two phrasal verbs or a phrasal verb with two different prepositions.
We can say to start off or to start out.
So the day started off bright, or the day started out bright.
The meaning is exactly the same.
To start off or to start out means it was blue sky or grey sky.
And then again, as the day progressed, it changed.
So I could say, oh, the day started off quite brightly, but as we near to lunchtime, it began to cloud over.
So I can include both of those phrasal verbs in that particular example.
Or the day started out quite bright, and then as the day progressed, it got gradually worse.