MULTI-WORD VERBS

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Multi-word verbs

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Phrasal verbs

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Transitive phrasal verbs

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Intransitive phrasal verbs

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Prepositional verbs

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Phrasal-prepositional verbs

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Phrasal verbs in context

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phrasal verbs

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Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs are followed by one or two adverb particles. The adverb particles change the meaning of the verb. I think you need to clear up this misunderstanding. Phrasal verbs are often preferred in colloquial, informal and spoken English.

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TRANSITIVE phraSal verbs

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Transitive phrasal verbs

Transitive phrasal verbs must be followed by a direct object. Most transitive phrasal verbs are separable. This means that the particle can either come after the verb or the object. I looked up the word in the dictionary. I looked the word up in the dictionary.

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Transitive phrasal verbs

When the object of a separable phrasal verb is a pronoun, the particle must come after the object. I looked it up in the dictionary. NOT I looked up it in the dictionary.

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Transitive phrasal verbs

When the object of a verb is a long noun phrase, the particle usually comes before the object. We need to pick up my dad’s heavy tent before we leave.

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Transitive phrasal verbs

When the phrasal verb is part of a relative clause, the particle comes after the verb. The drawing that he threw away was a birthday present from his little brother.

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Transitive phrasal verbs

When the verb is modified by an adverb, the adverb comes either at the end of the clause ... She paid back the loan immediately. ... or before the verb. She immediately paid back the loan.

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Separable phrasal verbs

Add up: to calculate the total of two or more numbers. Back up: to support or help someone. Bring about: to cause something to happen. Bring over: carry or take: to a given place. Call up: to use the phone to talk to someone. Carry out: to perform or complete a job or activity; to fulfill. Chew up: to use something quickly. Clear up: to make a place tidy by removing things from it or putting them where they should be. Fill up: to become full, or to make something become full.

Separable phrasal verbs

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Move over: move aside to create space. Pass on: to tell someone something that another person has told you. Point out: to make a person notice someone or something, sometimes by holding up one of your fingers towards him, her, or it. Quiet down: stop talking so loudly. Rinse out: to quickly wash the inside of something with clean water. Run off: to quickly and easily write something that is usually slow or difficult to write, such as a piece of poetry or music. Shut off: to stop the supply of something. Sweep out: clear with a broom. Tear up: to tear paper into a lot of small pieces. Wipe off: o remove something from something.

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INTRANSITIVE phraSal verbs

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Intransitive phrasal verbs

Intransitive phrasal verbs do not take a direct object. Intransitive phrasal verbs are always inseparable. We didn’t think the idea would catch on, but sales are really taking off!

Remember! Some phrasal verbs have more than one meaning and can have both a transitive and an intransitive meaning: I hope the plane takes off on time. Please take your coat off.

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Transitive phrasal verbs

Bring up: to care for a child until they are an adult, often giving them particular beliefs Check out: to examine something or get more information about it in order to be certain that it is true, safe, or suitable Clear up: to make a place tidy by removing things from it or putting them where they should be Look up: to become better Pay back: to pay someone the money that you owe them Pick up: to lift someone or something using your hands Put off: to decide or arrange to delay an event or activity until a later time or date Throw away: to get rid of something by treating it as garbage

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More transitive phrasal verbs

Bring back: to make someone think about something from the past Call up: to use the phone to talk to someone. Cross off: to remove someone or something, such as a name, from a list by drawing a line through it Dig up: to take something out of the ground by digging Dream up: to invent something very unusual and usually silly Eat up: to eat all the food that you have been given Fill up: to become full, or to make something become full Hold down: to keep someone or something in a particular place or position and to stop him, her, or it from moving Leave out: to not include someone or something Lift up: raise Mix up: to fail to recognize two people or things correctly by thinking that one person or thing is the other person or thing

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More transitive phrasal verbs

Pass around: to offer something to each person in a group of people Pin up: to fasten something to a wall using a pin Read out: to read something and say the words aloud so that other people can hear Switch off: to stop giving your attention to someone or something Throw out: to get rid of something by treating it as garbage. to force someone to leave a place Try on: to put on clothes to see how they look or if they fit Wash out: to remove something by washing, or to disappear after washing Wipe out: to destroy something completely

Intransitive phrasal verbs

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Break down: to divide something into smaller parts Catch on: to become fashionable or popular Eat out: to eat in a restaurant Get by: to be able to live or deal with a situation by having very little of something you need, such as money Keep away: to not go somewhere or near something, or to prevent someone from going somewhere or near something Pass out: to become unconscious for a short time, for example when ill, badly hurt, or drunk Sell out: to sell all of the supply that you have of something Show off: to behave in a way that is intended to attract attention or admiration, and that other people often find annoying

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More intransitive phrasal verbs

Back down: to admit you were wrong, or to stop supporting a position. Carry on: to continue doing something, or to cause something to continue. Check up: verify something. Check out: to examine something or get more information about it in order to be certain that it is true, safe, or suitable. Clear out: to tidy a place by getting rid of things that you do not want. Come about: to happen, or start to happen. Come by: to obtain something. Come through: to succeed in a difficult situation. Get up: to organize a group of people to do something.

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More intransitive phrasal verbs

Give up: to stop doing something before you have finished it, usually because it is too difficult. Lie down: to move into a position in which your body is flat, usually in order to sleep or rest. Pull in: to attract people to come to a performance or to buy things Run away: to leave a place or person secretly and suddenly. Run down: to criticize someone or something, often unfairly. Stand by: to continue to support or help someone who is in a difficult situation. Turn in: to produce results, usually good results. Wait up: to not go to bed at night because you are expecting someone to arrive. Work out: (of a situation) to happen or develop in a particular, esp. a satisfactory, way, or (of a person) to be suitable for a particular situation.

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PREPOSITIONAL verbs

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Prepositional verbs

Prepositional verbs are followed by a preposition, e.g. after, for, round. They are always transitive – followed by a direct object – and inseparable. The direct object always comes after the preposition, even when it is a pronoun. Both Sergei and Viktor take after their father. They take after him.

When a prepositional verb is modified by an adverb, the adverb cannot come after the preposition: She coped with the crisis magnificently. She coped magnificently with the crisis. She coped with magnificently the crisis.

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PHRASAL-PREPOSITIONAL verbs

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Phrasal-Prepositional verbs

Phrasal-prepositional verbs are followed by a particle and then a preposition. The particle and the preposition must stay together. He’s come up with an incredible invention. He came up with it last month.

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PHRASAL verbs in context

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Phrasal verbs in context

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