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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this
lesson I'm going to talk about some
phrasal verbs that use the word bring
this is a list of verbs that I think is
good for maybe intermediate or maybe
upper intermediate to getting to
advanced students the aim of this lesson
is to help you level up your use of the
verb bring this is not a complete list
but I've chosen a few that I feel are
common and that I hope can help you kind
of improve how you use this verb so
let's get started let's look at the
first phrasal verb the first phrasal
verb is the expression bring forward to
bring forward has a couple of different
meanings first we can use bring forward
to mean to introduce an idea so you
might hear this use to talk about
concepts like in meetings or in
presentations when someone wants to
bring something forward it's used to
talk about introducing an idea for
something we also use bring forward to
talk about carrying something from the
back to the front of a room this is an
expression that's used again like in
presentations for example if I'm
presenting at the front of a room and I
have something prepared at the back of a
room I might ask someone to bring that
item forward so you might hear this for
example in like legal situations if you
like to watch like police shows for
example a lawyer who has prepared
something might ask for that item to be
brought forward someone to bring that
thing forward to the front of the room
let's look at another example we brought
forward an idea for a new product
this means we introduced an idea for a
new product so this might be in a
meeting situation so there are these two
kinds of uses for the expression bring
forward to bring something forward okay
let's take a look at the next phrasal
verb the next phrasal verb is bring home
to bring home to bring something home
or to bring home means to carry
something back to one's home so we use
this for shopping and we also use this
in sports actually we use it to talk
about like trophies in sports if you win
a championship or you win some contests
we say they're going to bring it home or
I'm going to bring it home where it is
like the trophy or the prize from the
contest so you'll hear this about
shopping or just items in general you
want to carry home an example of this
can you please bring some milk home very
simple request so bring some milk home
in this case so you can put the item
between bring and home to use this
expression okay let's go along to the
next phrasal verb the next phrasal verb
is bring to light to bring to light to
bring something to light means to cause
something to become clear to cause
something to become clear so it's like
you can imagine you are bringing a light
on to something and then because of that
light you can now see everything very
clearly that might be a helpful way to
remember the meaning of this one let's
look at an example his lies were brought
to light when important evidence was
discovered so this is a fairly typical
example of how we use bring to light so
here what became clear his lies his lies
were brought to light so that means his
lies became clear or the fact that he
lied became clear at this point in time
when important evidence was discovered
so another way to say this is when
important evidence was discovered or
when we found some important information
we realized or it became clear he lied
multiple times in the past so this is a
common example so what became clear and
why or at what point in time okay let's
continue to the next expression the next
expression is bring to mind to bring to
MA
this means to cause to remember to cause
to remember to cause to think of
something as well to bring something to
mind let's look at an example this song
brings to mind I'm sorry this song
brings my high school dance to mind my
high school dance so hear this song it
brings and then this is the actual
phrase my high school dance so this song
causes me to remember my high school
dance this song makes me remember my
high school dance or it brings it to my
mind brings it into my mind so this is
an expression we use for memories a lot
ok let's go on to the next one which is
bring up the rear bring up the rear this
means to be last to be at the end of
something we use this a lot for contests
especially like sports a marathon for
example or a horse race for example
where there's a clear lineup of people
participating or animals participating
the person or whoever or whatever animal
is at the last the final position we say
that that person or that participant
whatever is bringing up the rear they
are last their final an example an
injured athlete is bringing up the rear
in the marathon so in this case it's a
sporting event a marathon and in this
case we're using the progressive an
injured athlete is bringing up the rear
so we might use this sentence when we're
watching a marathon on TV for example so
this is happening now an injured athlete
is last in the marathon essentially so
saying he or she is last sounds quite
direct but bringing up the rear it
sounds kind of more like that person is
still continuing like they're still
working they're still making efforts but
they are in the last position the final
position so here this is in the
progressive tense the injured athlete is
bringing up the rear all right let's
continue to the next one
the next expression is to bring
something about to bring something
about means to cause something to happen
to cause something to occur so we use
this one we're talking about
cause-and-effect situations let's look
at a very common example pollution has
brought about climate change so in other
words pollution has caused climate
change to happen has caused climate
change to occur so this shows a cause
and this shows an effect has brought
about shows us this relationship so
pollution caused climate change though
using brought about I think kind of
shows that over time it resulted in
something it's a little bit more like
time sensitive I think so to bring
something about will help you show
causes and effects especially over over
a period of time that could be like
months or years in this case years over
a long period of time so to bring
something about ok let's continue to the
next expression the next expression is
bring something back to bring something
back there are two common uses for this
they are first to cause someone to
remember something I'll show you an
example of this and to return an item to
a store to return an item to a store is
like I want to bring this back or I need
to bring this back to a store with this
meaning you might also here to take
something back I need to take this shirt
back to this store so that's an example
sentence I need to bring this shirt back
to the store to look at the first
meaning though about causing someone to
remember something
these cookies bring me back to childhood
so this means the cookies here the
cookies have some like nostalgia factor
the cookies are something the speaker
enjoyed in his or her childhood
so these cookies may be smelling or
eating or making these cookies causes
the speaker to remember the experience
of his or her childhood
these cookies bring me back to childhood
so I
feel like I'm in my childhood again
that's the feeling of this expression
brings me back to something is a common
way to use this phrase over okay
let's continue to the next expression
next is bring somebody down to bring
somebody down this means to cause
someone to lose confidence it has a
negative meaning so an example of this
don't bring your classmates down you
could kind of imagine this as being like
don't bully your classmates or don't be
mean don't be unkind to your classmates
don't bring your classmates down another
thing that you might hear is don't let
someone and get you down like don't let
your boss get you down or don't let your
grades get you down so don't let
something cause you to lose confidence
that's another common way that we use
this expression so to bring someone down
is this loss of confidence okay let's
move along to the next expression the
last expression actually to bring
something up please be careful this is
different from to bring someone up to
bring someone up like bringing up
someone's children that means to raise I
think some of you probably know that one
to bring someone up to bring something
up however is quite different to bring
something up means to introduce or to
mention a topic often an unpleasant one
so it's typically used for something we
don't really want to talk about or it's
kind of an uncomfortable topic or it's
difficult to talk about for some reason
but someone mentions it in a
conversation an example management
brought up our projects delay in the
meeting so here management a managing
team or a managing person brought up so
mentioned our project delay our project
delay so this is the topic for
discussion and this is probably
something the speaker feels nervous
about or is uncomfortable about we know
that because this use brought up that
sounds like it's kind of uncomfortable
we tend to use this for uncomfortable
topics
so in this case a project delay there's
some like delay there's some reason a
project has not finished and the speaker
probably does not want to talk about it
so they feel nervous that might be why
you could use brought up or to bring to
something up okay so these are a few
phrasal verbs that use bring there are
others there are lots of others so if
you want to know more about how to use
bring in phrasal verbs like these I
recommend checking out a dictionary of
course if you have any questions or
comments or want to practice making a
sentence with one of these phrasal verbs
please feel free to do so in the comment
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