This week’s phrasal verb is “hear out”, and it is used when we want to talk about being willing to listen to someone give a reason, idea or excuse about something. For example:
A: I don’t want to hear any more of your stupid ideas to get rich!
B: Wait. Just hear me out. This one is a really good idea.
I know you’re angry at Brett for missing your birthday party, but he has a good excuse, so please just hear him out.
I have a very good reason for coming late to the meeting. I hope you’ll hear me out.
Peter says he has a good idea to help the company make more money. I’ll hear him out, but I doubt that I’ll like the idea.
We often use this expression in the imperative tense, which means that we’re telling someone directly to do something. The first two sentences are examples of this. Please note that when we use the imperative tense, we DON’T use the word “you”. Therefore, we say, “Hear me out.”, but we don’t say, “You hear me out.”. However, in the third sentence I put “I hope” in front of it followed by the future tense with “will”. In that case, we can use the word “you”.
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