The most common and powerful phrasal verbs! Use them actively in your daily communication.
What are phrasal verbs?
Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle, for example: look up, go through, make out.
Unit 1
- eat out (without an object): We decided to eat out.
- bring back sth or bring sth back: This photograph brings back happy memories.
- ask out sb or ask sb out: I’d love to ask Poppy out.
- look after sth/sb: Wil you look after my plants while Im’ away?
- ring sb back: I’l ring you back later.
- drop off sth/sb or drop sth/sb off: dropped off the present at her house.
Unit 2
phrasal verbs are less formal:
- put off sb/sth or put off sth/sb: postpone: Let’s put off the meeting until Friday.
- take off sth or take sth off: remove(literal meaning): Please take off your shoes when you enter the temple.
- turn up: arrive: Everyone turned up on time for the meeting.
And also note that phrasal has concrete and abstract meaning both, for example:
- She got on the bus: entered.
- they don’t get on: don’t like each other and are not friendly to each other.
Unit 3
particle has lots of meaning, and the object need to place before or after it.
Unit 4
It sometimes possible to create a noun from a phrasal verb.
Rules for the use of verb +particle noun forms
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The plural is formed by adding “s” to the particle, not the verb, e.g. break-ins, dropouts, rip-offs (not: breaks in, dropsout, rips-off)
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Verb +particle noun forms are sometimes written with a hyphen, e.g. break-in, check-in, cover-up; and sometimes without, e.g. dropout, checkout, crackdown.
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Nouns with -out and -over are usually written as one word, e.g. dropout, lookout, checkout, handout, changeover, leftovers.
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Nouns with -in, -up and less common particles usually have a hyphen, e.g. lie-in, mix- up, put-down, run-through.
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In pronunciation, the stress is on the verb, not the particle. a BREAK-in at the office college DROPout
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I know from the outset that there would be problems: the start or beginning of something
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the economic crisis caused the downfall of the govt.
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crowds of onlookers watched as the police arrested the man. 吃瓜群众; standerbys
Unit 5
Often there is no direct connection between the various meanings and you just have to learn each different meaning of the phrasal verb. The best way to do this is by trying to remember a sentence using the phrasal verb.
literal vs metaphorical/'mɛtə’fɔrɪkl/
Unit 6
- come along: arrive at a place
- come around: become conscious again
- come out: dirt on clothes disappear; exam result; coming out of hospital
- come apart: separate into pieces
- come up (with)
- come about: happened, especially not planned
- come across: discover by chance
- come down to: depend mostly on
Some expression:
- I lost the report so I had to start all over again
- everyone speaks very highly of you
- Her operation was successful
- I split the tomato juice on the tablecloth
- in the end, at the moment
Unit 7
- get behind (with): I got behind with my work because I spent too much time online; ahead of schedule; on schedule
- get sth over with: let’s get this meeting over with
Unit 8
- go on: what’s going on?
- go through with: I don’t want to do the exam now, but I’d better to go through with it.
ongoing: adj, ongoing effort goings-on: noun, I heard about some unusual goings-on at the office last week.
Unit 9
- look at: I only looked at the design quickly
- look after sth/sb
- look ahead: It’s important to look ahead and consider the long-term implications of our decisions.
- look around: look around for a new job
- look forward to sth/doing sth
Unit 10
- make out: I couldn’t make out a word he was saying (negative)
- make-up: cosmetics
- make up of: over 40% university population is made up of overseas students
- make up: she made up an excuse about being ill
Unit 11
- can we put our meeting back till next week? reschedule a planned event at later time (similar to put off)
Unit 12
about “take”
Unit 13
About “up”
- I had to sweep/wi/ up dead leaves on the terrace/ˈterəs/: 阳台；平台
- I used up all my energy
- the battery has run out; we ran out of milk
- I have to tidy/ai/ up my room, hang up 4 jackets and several pairs of trousers/ˈtraozɚ/ I’d left lying on chairs.
- I discovered the washbasin/ˈwɑʃˌbesən/ was clogged up in the bathroom
Unit 14
About “out”
- I forget the key and was locked out of my own house
- I sorted out my room on sunday
Unit 15
About “off”
- she didn’t get offended by the comment, she just laughed it off
Unit 16
About “on” and “in”
- you can always rely/depend/count on him
- keep on eating
Unit 17
“down” and “over”
- I take these tablets/ˈtæblət/ to keep my blood pressure down.
- please read over the report and look over the figures in the appendix we can go over it together and later I will hand the whole thing over to the sales team.