Phrasal Verbs: Add “OFF” to change the meaning of these 8 verbs

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You know the meaning of “call”, but what about “call off’? Watch and learn as 8 regular verbs become phrasal verbs by simply adding “off”. Understand the difference between “hold” and “hold off”, “stop” and “stop off”, “lay” and “lay off”. Practice how to use “break off”, “doze off”, “rush off”, and “drop off”. Master these common expressions to speak English more fluently and confidently. https://www.engvid.com/8-off-phrasal-verbs/ Next, watch my lesson on 8 phrasal verbs with "OUT": https://youtu.be/Cr4RYby4L6Q Keep improving your English with my course, Correct Your English Errors in 10 Minutes a Day: https://10.bexenglish.com In this lesson: 0:00 Add 'off' to create 8 phrasal verbs! 0:47 hold, lay, break, doze 1:57 Make them phrasal verbs! 2:56 doze off 4:16 break off 5:12 hold off 6:04 lay off 7:15 stop, call, drop, rush 8:29 call off 9:32 rush off 10:18 stop off 11:45 drop off 12:53 Present, Past, and Past Participle forms 16:25 Test yourself! TRANSCRIPT: Now, in this lesson, we will look at eight regular verbs, which you probably do know the meaning of, and see how they change in meaning when they become phrasal verbs. In this case, they are all going to become phrasal verbs by adding the word "of", alright? So, let's have a look at the regular words first, and then look at the new meanings with phrasal verbs. So, are you ready? Let's get started. Okay, so we have eight phrasal verbs on the board here, and there we have the meanings, but what we're going to do first, I'm just going to explain to you and review with you the basic verb itself before it becomes a phrasal verb, alright? So, the first one is "to hold". What does it mean to hold something? It's like this, like I am holding this marker in my hand. You might hold a baby, okay? So, that's "to hold" by itself. This is "to lay". What does it mean to lay something? It means to put something down. For example, oh, the groceries are very heavy, I need to lay them on the table, alright? Or I need to lay my backpack on the table, alright? To put something somewhere. That's the verb by itself. To break, well, if somebody's mad, they might break their pencil or something might break by mistake. If something is glass and you drop it, it will break, right? That's the meaning of "break". And "to doze", do you know that one as a regular verb? To doze means to take a short nap, okay? Kind of fall asleep, you're not planning it, but it's a short nap, alright? Now, let's see what happens when we make these into phrasal verbs and let's look at how the meaning changes completely, alright? So, repeat after me, just first the way it sounds. "To hold off", "to lay off", "to break off", and "to doze off", alright? Do you know the meaning of any of these already? Perhaps you do. All of these are used in regular, everyday life, in business situations, in academic context, in all aspects of life, alright? So, it's really good to know them. So, what we're going to do is this, I'm going to read the first meaning and then you tell me if you know what - which one that describes, alright? So, here we go. So, the first meaning is "to fall asleep briefly". Which phrasal verb do you think means "to fall asleep briefly"? Which of these four? If you need a little time, just pause the video, no problem, figure it out, and then come back and join me, or let's continue. So, "to fall asleep briefly" is "to doze off". So, what's the difference between "to doze" and "to doze off"? Well, "to doze" is what happens after you doze off, alright? So, let's suppose I'm watching a movie, and I really want to watch it, but I'm tired, so by mistake, I kind of, or without planning, I doze off. So, when you doze off, you're starting to fall asleep for a short time, okay? That's the meaning here, "to fall asleep briefly", so we're going to match these two. When I doze, that's what happened after I fell asleep briefly, okay? Then I'm dozing, I'm just taking a short nap, but it wasn't planned, alright? That's the meaning. Let's look at the next one, "be". It means "to end or stop an activity". So, what do you think that one is? What could it be? So, this basically means "to break off". So, you could break off a relationship, you could break off a negotiation in business or a discussion, okay? It means you end it, you stop it. So, it could happen that you break off something with someone or with something or with a company or with an organization, okay? So, "to break off". It's not the same as physically breaking something, but it is severing something, cutting something, alright? […]