Phrasal Verbs

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Sample: American Phrasal Verbs, 2006. Barlow and Burdine

American English

Phrasal Verbs
and collocations

Michael Barlow and Stephanie Burdine

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Sample: American Phrasal Verbs, 2006. Barlow and Burdine

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Sample: American Phrasal Verbs, 2006. Barlow and Burdine

The CorpusLAB series of books are based on computer-aided analysis of spoken and written American English. By studying the exercises in this book, you will be learning the most frequent phrasal verbs and associated phrases (collocations) in American English and you will be working with sentences based on realAmerican English. American Phrasal Verbs is designed to help you improve your understanding of the most frequently used phrasal verbs in everyday English. The phrasal verbs and the phrases and sentences used in this book have been selected on the basis of an analysis of real American English: both spoken and written. Frequency. Phrasal verbs are very common in English, especially spoken English.The frequency is indicated at the top of each unit by a number of circles. abc The top line shows the frequency in speech and the second line shows the frequency in writing. All the phrasal verbs in this book are very frequent in English. Meaning. We give several common meanings for each phrasal verb. These meanings are often extensions from the core meaning and they may be abstract. You shouldstudy the sentences carefully to see how each phrasal verb is used. Some hints on the meaning are given next to each sentence. Collocations. Each meaning of a phrasal verb is usually associated with a set of particular words (collocates) within the sentence. For example, complaints is a collocate of deal with, as in the sentence we had to deal with a lot of complaints. Studying the sentences willhelp you learn these very important word associations. Also the collocate complaints provides a clue to the appropriate meaning of deal with. Idioms. Phrasal verbs are often used in idioms such as the expression look at the big picture. We include a number of idiomatic uses in this book Each unit concentrates on one phrasal verb (e.g., go out). The phrasal verb is introduced in a table format that(a) highlights the grammar of the phrasal verb, (b) defines its most common meanings, and (c) provides examples of how the phrasal verb is used in everyday English. The information in the table is brief, easy-to-follow, and can be consulted at any time for quick reference. Studying these tables will help you to learn American English as it is used in everyday situations. Each table is followed by aseries of exercises intended to check your understanding of the meaning and uses of the phrasal verb presented in the unit. The exercises generally progress from controlled practice to more open-ended exercises. A wide variety of question types are used; including, fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, crossword puzzles, sentence matching, and re-writing, as well as pattern identification,concordance-based research, error correction, and discussion.

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Following every four units, you will find a short set of comprehensive review exercises dealing with the phrasal verbs from the previous four chapters. You will also find a key to all of the exercises at the end of the book, which you can use to check your answers. Theindex contains a list of a list of the phrasal verbs and collocations used in he book. We hope that you will enjoy finding out more about everyday phrasal verbs by going through this book step by step, and feel challenged as you deal with the information and work out answers to the exercises. Believe in yourself and really get into it! Who knows where you might end up?

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