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This is the Rachel’s English 30-Day Challenge!
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Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days!
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Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017.
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Today is Day 24 and we're studying phrasal verbs with “grow”.
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Is this 30-day vocabulary challenge really starting to grow on you?
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If something grows on you, that means that you like it more and more.
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Maybe at the beginning you weren’t sure about it
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but as time went on, you found you did like something.
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At first I didn’t like the name they chose for their baby, but it’s really grown on me.
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To grow apart means to be less close.
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This happens over time.
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We were best friends in college, but we’ve really grown apart.
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We hardly talk anymore.
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To grow back means to grow after something has been cut.
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I hate my haircut, but I know it’ll grow back.
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Or, the forest will grow back eventually after the fire.
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To grow into something means to get big enough.
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These shoes are too big for my son, but he’ll grow into them by next year.
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It also means to become more natural or comfortable with something.
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She’s really grown into a confident young woman.
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Or, There’s a lot to learn, he needs some time to grow into the job.
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We use the term grow out with hair.
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So at the hair salon you might say, I’m trying to grow out my hair, so just trim a little off.
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This means I want it to be longer. I’m growing it out.
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To grow out of something means to get too big for something.
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Why spend a lot of money on children’s clothes?
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They’ll just grow out of them so fast!
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It can also mean to stop doing something as you get older.
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I wish he’d grow out of this temper tantrum phase.
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It can also mean to develop because of something.
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The non-profit grew out of a need for affordable housing.
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To grow up is to become an adult.
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When I grow up, I want to teach English.
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We also say it to someone who is being immature.
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For example, maybe someone is making fun of someone else, and you say, “grow up!”
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We also use it to mean to spend childhood. I want my children to grow up around their grandparents.
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Or, I grew up in Florida.
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Grow begins with the GR consonant cluster. Gr-
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Your lips can make the shape of the R as you make the G.
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The G is made with t he back of the tongue touching the soft palate.
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So the front and middle part of the tongue can be in position for the R, with the tip pulled back and up.
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Then all you have to do is release the back, gr-, gr-. Grow.
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Then the OH as in NO diphthong.
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Your jaw drops some at the beginning, and then the lips will round a bit. Grow, grow, grow.
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