out, on, off, over, ...

[ponpon]

Hi everyone and Thomas!

I was wondering if you could make a podcast about the the postposition (I'm not sureyou're using this word! but i mean 'out, on off, over...') that can change the meaning of a verb (like work and work out, or run and run over,...). I still have some difficulties with it so it could help a lot if you could clarify it!
And if someone else can help me to understand better how to use these postpositions corectly... thanks in advance!

And thank you so much Thomas for your podcasts! It's a great idea!

[TheBrain]

A lot of those are very weird phrases. "Work out" does not mean the same as "work" and "out".

"To work out" = "To go to the gym and get healthy"

"To run over" = "To go quickly over something"  It usually means driving over someone in a car.

Things like this mostly come from experience I think. 

[celia]

Hello

You're right ponpon, postpositions are very difficult to undestand. I have the same problem and I know they are lots of people like us.

If instead to say what means a work with differents postposition, someone would say us the sens of them and the reason they put it , maybe we would understand better.

Thank you for this nice site,

And long time we don't see you Thomas, you miss us!