Vol. 3                                                                      Issue 150

Friday, August 23

 

TO LEARN: tie A in with B, tied up, tied down, tying up, tie up

 

Hi ,



 

Where have I been?!! Did I forget about you?!!

No! In fact, I’ve been feeling TERRIBLE because I have been unable to send you email English lessons! Why? I’ll let you know in the near future! Good reasons????

Today, however, let’s study a few phrasal verbs that use TIE! I’ll try totie my busy schedule in with this lesson!

These days I’ve been really tied up. Normally I’m tied down to my office chair, but for the past week and a half I’ve been driving everywhere to get some special work done. Because I was tying up the car, my wife was unable to go to the hairdressers, so she’s now mad at me~ Hopefully I can tie up all this extra work by December—then everything will be back to normal!

 

Can you figure out the meaning of those FIVE different phrasal verbs?!

 

Tie A in with B: to relate A and B, to connect A and B

Tied up: BUSY!!!

Tied down: forced to stay in one place

Tying up: using ALL BY MYSELF, not sharing

Tie up: finish perfectly/completely