That is, copy files and folders to another location, like an external disk drive. So, users should always back up their files. Installing upgrades can sometimes damage files. We can click on an arrow to move to the next screen, too. A wheel on the mouse allows you to scroll up or scroll down to read a web page. When we give instructions to a friend about using a web page, we can say, “Look in the nav bar for the pulldown and choose a command.”Īnother verb that describes up-and-down movement on the screen is scroll up or scroll down.
This leads us to our first noun from a phrasal verb, pulldown. That bar is often called the navigation bar or nav bar. These menus are stored in a pull down or drop down bar near the top of the screen.Ī click of the mouse – the hand-held device that guides the cursor around the computer screen – shows more commands on the bar. Then we click on the icon, or image, for a program to run it.Īfter opening a program, you choose commands from a menu.
#LIST OF PHRASAL VERBS ADVANCE INSTALL#
To install new applications on the computer, users run a set up program. Some computers took a long time to boot up, or get ready to run programs. Like now, we started a computer by hooking up wire cables and then powering it up or turning it on. Sometimes we say we have to sign in to a web page. To log in is to enter a code, key or password to gain access to the computer’s abilities. Let’s go back to 1969, when the first verb sent over the Internet was a phrasal verb: log in. Many of those nouns grew out of phrasal verbs, as you will learn in this episode.
#LIST OF PHRASAL VERBS ADVANCE FULL#
Not only is the language of technology full of phrasal verbs, it is also full of new nouns. It is natural that the language of computers would also change and be informal. The world of technology is fast-changing, and it has broken many traditions. The digital age has created many new words and phrases in English. Today we look at very current phrasal verbs: ones used with technology. As you know, a phrasal verb is a phrase with two or more words: a verb and a preposition or adverb, or both. This is our third episode on phrasal verbs. Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English.
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