Thank you. I'm glad it's clear, as it's a very commonly confused pair of words!

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Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed comment. There are different types of multi-word verb units, but when explaining things to students, many teachers simply say ‘phrasal verbs’. However, there is a distinction between phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs. This is where I think your confusion lies. Grow up is *not* related to height. You must use the main word ‘grow’ to express someone or something getting taller. 1) My tomato plants GREW about 2 feet last month. (Meaning the difference was about 2 feet. They were 1.5ft, now they are 3.5ft) 2) My honeysuckle plant IS GROWING up the fence. (This is not the phrasal verb ‘grow up’, it is the main verb ‘grow’ connected to a prepositional phrase ‘up the fence’) 3) I bought a baby palm tree. Only when I got it home did I read the information tag that said it COULD GROW up to 20 meters!!! (Again, this is the main verb ‘grow’ with a prepositional phrase ‘up to 20 meters’ specifying the maximum height that it could reach) When we talk about profits, they ‘grow’, meaning they ‘increase’ I’m not quite sure what you mean by “We grow up the shows while remaining in repertoire.” ‘Grow up’ is an intransitive verb. This means it cannot take an object. Children grow up. ✅ Parents raise children. ✅ Parents grow up children. ❌ Perhaps you’re talking about the shows that you watched consistently throughout your childhood 'to grow up ON something' I grew up on 80s cartoons. I grew up on cheese sandwiches. In terms of the level of formality of phrasal verbs, perhaps that’s a good idea for another video! Let me know if you have any more questions. Anisa 😊

@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa Oh! Thanks for the long reply. I’m no one to speak about English language, but I’m sure we could open a long thread just speaking about the origin of phrasal verbs, their rules and usage. The English language is a live language. It’s currently alive. Words, usage and even rules change continuously, depending by the preferences of who uses this language. The usage of phrasal verbs depends by the country, even the local region, by the class of age, by the century, even the decades, by the formality of the colloquial language, and typically it is avoided in formal written English. The three sentences I have reported are real on the web, not hard to find. They do not use form like “grow up to”. English people apply the grammar rules but with an infinity of exceptions, so that the language evolve. Grow up is intransitive but as I see people do mistakes such as to use it in the transitive form to express better the idea to govern the process of growing up. I saw several “grow up the company” on the web. Mistakes. However, they well express the idea! And I can barely imagine how many ways grow up is used in informal colloquial communications. The literal meaning of 'grow up' is simply a variation of the verb 'to grow', just with additional emphasis on the upwards direction. Mainly as the synonym of 'to mature'. Anyway, I’m sure that grow up can be used also with plants, cities, ideas, organizations… Not just people. Nonetheless, I think that every English speaker understands immediately its meaning even if it is used not following the grammar rules or in the wrong context.

Thank you! (video on contractions coming soon 😊)

@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa 🌹❤️ thanks my great teacher ❤️🌹

Given that I've been using Bob as my go-to example for the past 20 years, maybe not! Then again, someone once put switched the salt and sugar for April Fool's Day. At the time, I thought it was incredibly childish. Don't mess with my coffee! ☕

Didn't you believe my example in the video? 😊 I'm from the UK. I was born in England, but I grew up in the UAE (Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al Khaimah). Then I moved to Canada. That's where I went to high school and university, and later started working. I guess you could say I finished growing up in Canada. 🍁 What about you?