DO: TO AVOID REPETITION OF A PREVIOUS VERB

We can use DO either as an auxiliary or as a full verb to avoid repeating a previous verb, like:
Sue really takes care of her four children all by herself. I don't know how she does it.
I know you love rock, but I don't. Would you please turn down the radio?

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Vocabulary: Mind

Ampliando o Vocabulário: MIND A palavra Mind é apresentada logo nas primeiras aulas do curso básico. Geralmente em expressões simples como "never mind" (não tem importância, não faz mal) ou ainda "I don't mind" (não tem importância!). Essas aplicações talvez escondam o "mundo" de significados que mind pode ter, pelo menos no meu dicionário ela cobre mais de uma página. Mind pode ser tanto um substantivo (noun) quando um verbo (verb). Como substantivo mind significa: mente; cérebro; alma; pensamento; memória; opinião; intenção; vontade. Aplicada como verbo significa: prestar atenção; considerar; notar; vigiar; recordar; observar; impugnar; lembrar; contrariar. Preste muita atenção, quando o mind (verbo) vier seguido de outro verbo, este deverá estar no gerúndio (-ing). Confira alguns exemplos: Do you mind driving? I'm feeling pretty tired. I don't mind at all telling people my age. Would you mind closing the door? Alguns adjetivos que podem ser usados com mind (noun) são: human, subconscious, unconscious, best, brilliant e open. Dessa forma é permitido dizer "open mind" como na sentença "Try to keep an open mind until you've heard all the facts". Others Examples My Mind just went blank: deu branco. Mind your own business: estar na sua, sem incomodar ninguém. I can't get you out of my mind: não consigo te tirar da cabeça, não consigo te tirar dos meus pensamentos. A sound mind in a sound body: mente sã em corpo são. Best Regards. By: English Experts

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PHRASAL VERBS - IN PORTUGUESE

Os phrasal verbs são combinações de palavras (verbo+partícula) com significado próprio:

A) Muitos phrasal verbs são combinações de um verbo+uma preposição:
LOOK FOR:
Daniel is looking for a new apartment. Can you help him? (look for = search)



B) Outros são formados por um verbo+um advérbio:
GET UP
What time you usually get up? (get up = wake)

C) E outros que são formados por um verbo+um advérbio+uma preposição:

GET ON WITH
Do you get on with your neighbors? (get on with = have a good relation)

D) Outros phrasal verbs têm significado semelhantes ao do verbo base, sendo que a partícula costuma ser usada para ênfase: sit down, wake up, hurry up, add up, etc...

Please sit down and wait for the doctor.
Wake up! You're late for school!
Hurry up! We'll miss the flight!

E)Porém, a maioria dos phrasal verbs tem significado idiomático: o sentido não se relaciona diretamente (muitas vezes nem indiretamente) com o significado do verbo base:
She gave up smoking last year. (Ela parou de fumar no ano passado).


F) Muitos phrasal verbs são usados para significados completamente diferentes em diferentes contextos ou situações. Onde é muito importante, sempre levar em consideração o contexto da frase.

TAKE OFF
1-To remove something you are wearing.
Anna took her clothes off and had a shower.

2-To leave the ground and rise into the air.
What time does your plane take off?

GO OFF
1-Explode
A bomb went off in São Paulo this morning.

2-To become inappropriate to eat or drink because it's not fresh anymore.
Milk usually goe off after a few days.

G) Conhecer o sentido usual das partículas é uma estratégia muito útil em muitos casos:
Exemplo: a partícula UP costuma ter sentido de "completamente", "por completo", como:
eat up: to eat all of something
After eating up your vegetables, you can have dessert.

fill up: to make a container full by putting liquid/things in it.
Is it better to fill up a gas tank when it reaches half or almost empty?

H) Os phrasal verbs estão presentes no dia-a-dia dos nativos de língua inglesa, por isso é necessário nos esforçar para aprendê-los.
Segue alguns exemplos básicos:
Stand up
Sit down
Lie down
Get up
Wake up
Come from (Brazil)
Turn on (the TV, the computer)
Turn off

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH

Colloquial forms of speech are often nothing more than simplifications of the standard forms.
Follow below some examples:

Standard: What are you doing tomorrow?
Colloquial: Whatcha doin' tomorrow?

Standard: I don`t want to stay here.
Colloquial: I don`t wanna stay here.
Standard: He's got a lot of money.
Colloquial: He's gotta lot a' money.
Standard: I'm going to watch TV.
Colloquial: I'm gonna watch TV.

Standard: What did you do last night?
Colloquial: Whadja do last night?

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MAKE in fixed expressions

What do you make of this/that?
Ex: What did you make of the Mayor's speech?
Well, I really didn't like it.

Not to know what to make of something
Ex: I didn't know what to make of Professor Duncan's comments. He was very ambiguous.

To make faces
Ex: Will you stop making faces? You look like Frankenstein!
Note: One may also make faces as a gesture of playfulness.

To make faces at someone
Ex: After the professor chewed out the class, the students made faces at him behind his back.

To make room for someone
Ex: My brother is going to the movies with us. We'll have to make room for another person in the car.

To make + adjective + noun
Ex: I think Laura would make a great politician. She really knows how to make speeches.

To make somentone + adjective
Ex: One thing that really makes me mad is having to wait.

COMPARED: DO and MAKE

TO DO
Often suggests to be engaged in, perform or execute some activity.

What are you doing? I'm reading the newspaper.

DO MAKE
Often means to construct, create or prepare something.

What are you making? I'm making lasagna.