Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're doing great and that you're ready to learn a few new phrasal verbs today.
In this episode, I'm going to talk about three phrasal verbs that sound similar,
but they are used differently and have different meanings.
So the first one is catch up.
The second one is catch up on and the third one is catch up with.
So first let me define these phrasal verbs and give you an example sentence of each one.
So catch up means to reach someone who is ahead of you.
So for example, I could say the runner caught up.
to his opponent and then overtook him.
So here I'm saying that the runner was behind, his opponent was ahead of him, and then he caught up,
which means he was able to run faster, and then he was at the same place,
running at the same speed as the other runner.
And then eventually he ran faster than him.
He overtook him.
So with this usage, you'll often hear catch up to or catch up with someone.
It just depends.
But you can just say the runner, uh, finally caught up.
Uh, if we already know the context, like he caught up to his opponent.
And, uh, now let me.