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PHRASAL VERBS
(MULTI-PART VERBS)
verb + particle (preposition or adverb)
The meaning of some phrasal verbs is clear:
Can you pick up my pen for me? It’s under your chair.
Take that vase off the table. It’s going to fall.
At other times there is a new meaning:
I picked up a little Italian when I was working in Rome. (= learn)
The plane to Los Angeles has just taken off. (= leave the ground)
Some phrasal verbs have several meanings:
She put on her clothes. (= she got dressed)
She put on weight. (= her weight increased)
She put on the light. (= she switched on the light)
The students put on a play. (= they performed)
There are four types of phrasal verbs:
1. VERB + PARTICLE (NO OBJECT)
The car broke down on the motorway. (= stop working)
Everyone panicked when the bomb went off. (= explode)
Guess who turned up at our party? (=appear, arrive)
2. VERB + PARTICLE + OBJECT (SEPARABLE)
I took off my coat. = I took my coat off.
= I took it off.
(= remove)
verb + particle + noun
OR
verb + noun + particle
BUT: verb + pronoun + particle
Can you fill in this form please? (= complete by writing)
I think you made this story up. (= invent)
This is a difficult problem. I can’t work it out. (= find a solution)
3. VERB + PARTICLE + OBJECT (INSEPARABLE)
I ran into Steve yesterday. = I ran into him yesterday. (= meet by chance)
Joe came across this old painting in the attic. (= find by chance)
I called on some friends in Bristol. (=visit for a short time)
I’ll look after it. (=care for)
4. VERB + PARTICLE + PARTICLE
Have you come up with an answer yet? (=think of)
We’re looking forward to it. (= await with pleasure)
Oh dear, we’ve run out of petrol! (= have no more)
JUST FOR FUN
A policeman spots a woman driving and knitting at the same time.
Driving up beside her, he says, "Pull over!"
"No," she shouts back, "a pair of socks!"
An Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida.
His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next
day.
When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. Unable
to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her email address, he did
his best to type it in from memory.
Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an
elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day
before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the
monitor, let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the
sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
DEAREST WIFE: JUST GOT CHECKED IN. EVERYTHING PREPARED FOR
YOUR ARRIVAL TOMORROW.
P.S. SURE IS HOT DOWN HERE.