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Hi!
My name's Mike. Today I'm going to teach you
the phrase "dress up".
To dress up
means to wear formal
clothes. There are
formal clothes which are clothes
that are very nice. Perhaps a jacket
like I have, a tie, a nice shirt.
Clothes like these pants,
some dress pants. That's to get dressed up.
The other option
would be to dress casual, like in this t-shirt
and these jeans. This is not dressed
up. This is...it's casual dress.
So, you can dress up. We can use these
in some sentences now. Should I dress
up for the dance? You can dress
casually for the dinner. You don't
need to dress up. So in the second sentence,
it's telling someone to dress
casually they don't need to dress up.
I've seen this before.
If you throw a "get" in here,
it doesn't change the meaning at all.
To
get dressed up. I need to get dressed up.
Do I need to get dressed up for the dance tonight?
I could just as easily leave this word
out. You'll hear this word in this phrase occasionally.
It's not necessary. You can just say "should I...
should I dress up for the dance tonight.
So, I hope if you
have dinner tonight in an elegant
beautiful restaurant, or you're going to a dance
in a wonderful place that requires
clothing that is nice,
please get dressed up and go
and enjoy yourself.