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Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 421

Speak Better English with Harry

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Why Don't You Shut Up?

We've got some phrasal verbs that I have here. Let me just get them up on the screen. Okay? So first is to shut up. Now, it can be a little bit rude depending on how you say it. But when you tell somebody to shut up, I don't think there's really a polite way to say it. It might be the politest it is. But generally people get a little bit insulted. You have to be very, very careful. And then next we look at if we look at something about not speaking. Well, when somebody dries up, they stop speaking because they either run out of words to say or they forget what they want

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