Vocabulary and phrasal verbs
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ADVANCED ENGLISH THREE
PHRASAL VERBS
Source: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/phrasals.htm
|Separable Phrasal Verbs |
| |
|The object may comeafter the following phrasal verbs or it may separate the two parts: |
|• You have to do this paint job over. • You have to do over this paint job. |
|When the object of the following phrasal verbs is a pronoun, the two parts of the phrasal verb must be separated: • You have to do it||over. |
| |Verb |Meaning |Example |
|1 |Blow up |Explode |The terrorists tried to blow up the railroad station.|
|2 |Bring up |Mention a Topic |My mother brought up that little matter of my prison record again. |
|3 |Bring up |Raise children |It isn't easy to bring up children nowadays. |
|4 |call off |Cancel |They called off this afternoon'smeeting |
|5 |do over |repeat a job |Do this homework over. |
|6 |fill out |Complete a form |Fill out this application form and mail it in. |
|7 |fill up |fill to capacity |She filled upthe grocery cart with free food. |
|8 |Give away |Give something to someone else for free |The filling station was giving away free gas. |
|9 |give back |return an object |My brother borrowed my car. I have a feeling he's not about to give |
| | ||it back. |
|10 |Hand in |submit something (assignment) |The students handed in their papers and left the room. |
|11 |Hang up |put something on hook or receiver |She hung up the phone before she hung up her clothes. |
|12 |hold up |Delay|I hate to hold up the meeting, but I have to go to the bathroom. |
|13 |hold up (2) |Rob |Three masked gunmen held up the Security Bank this afternoon. |
|14 |Leave out |Omit |You left out the part about the police chase down Asylum Avenue. |
|15 |look over|Examine, check |The lawyers looked over the papers carefully before questioning the |
| | | |witness. (They looked them over carefully.) |
|16 |look up |search in a list |You've misspelled this word again. You'd better look it up. |
|17|Make up |invent a story or lie |She knew she was in trouble, so she made up a story about going to |
| | | |the movies with her friends. |
|18 |Make out |Hear, understand |He was so far away, we really couldn't make out what...
PHRASAL VERBS
Source: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/phrasals.htm
|Separable Phrasal Verbs |
| |
|The object may comeafter the following phrasal verbs or it may separate the two parts: |
|• You have to do this paint job over. • You have to do over this paint job. |
|When the object of the following phrasal verbs is a pronoun, the two parts of the phrasal verb must be separated: • You have to do it||over. |
| |Verb |Meaning |Example |
|1 |Blow up |Explode |The terrorists tried to blow up the railroad station.|
|2 |Bring up |Mention a Topic |My mother brought up that little matter of my prison record again. |
|3 |Bring up |Raise children |It isn't easy to bring up children nowadays. |
|4 |call off |Cancel |They called off this afternoon'smeeting |
|5 |do over |repeat a job |Do this homework over. |
|6 |fill out |Complete a form |Fill out this application form and mail it in. |
|7 |fill up |fill to capacity |She filled upthe grocery cart with free food. |
|8 |Give away |Give something to someone else for free |The filling station was giving away free gas. |
|9 |give back |return an object |My brother borrowed my car. I have a feeling he's not about to give |
| | ||it back. |
|10 |Hand in |submit something (assignment) |The students handed in their papers and left the room. |
|11 |Hang up |put something on hook or receiver |She hung up the phone before she hung up her clothes. |
|12 |hold up |Delay|I hate to hold up the meeting, but I have to go to the bathroom. |
|13 |hold up (2) |Rob |Three masked gunmen held up the Security Bank this afternoon. |
|14 |Leave out |Omit |You left out the part about the police chase down Asylum Avenue. |
|15 |look over|Examine, check |The lawyers looked over the papers carefully before questioning the |
| | | |witness. (They looked them over carefully.) |
|16 |look up |search in a list |You've misspelled this word again. You'd better look it up. |
|17|Make up |invent a story or lie |She knew she was in trouble, so she made up a story about going to |
| | | |the movies with her friends. |
|18 |Make out |Hear, understand |He was so far away, we really couldn't make out what...
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