Transcript Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs
What are they…?
How do you use them correctly?
Phrasal verbs are commonly used in
English, so it’s important to learn them!
A phrasal verb has 2 parts:
1) a verb
2) and a preposition (at least one)
*often
a phrasal verb has a special meaning
…Examples
Show up = arrive/come
Show off = brag/show how great you are
Show around
= to familiarize someone with a new place
Take off = leave a place
Take after
= to resemble or look like another person
Sometimes phrasal verbs have an
object . . .
The object simply answers
the question:
What?
Or
Who?
Look at the following examples
1. Cynthia drops off the children at 8:00 each day.
Drop off = phrasal verb . . . WHO does she drop off?
The children . . .
The children = object
2. Carlos wanted to get healthy. So he decided to
give up smoking.
Give up = phrasal verb . . . WHAT did he give up?
Smoking. . .
Smoking = object
When a phrasal verb uses an object,
the object can occur in
2 locations:
(=this is called a separable phrasal verb)
Look at this example:
Michael was scheduled to marry Lisa
in two days. He should have been
excited, but he wasn’t.
Instead, he felt . . .
Very
Very
VERY Nervous!!!
But, a day before the wedding,
Michael decided that he had made a
BIG mistake!
So he
called off
the wedding!
1. He called off _______________.
2. He called _______________ off.
3. He called _________ off.
Poor Lisa!
Grammar Rules:
An object of a phrasal verb can appear:
1. After the phrasal verb:
They turned up the volume.
OR . . .
2. In the middle of a phrasal verb:
They turned the volume up.
3. But, if the object is a pronoun it must be in
the middle.
They turned IT up.
Now it’s your turn
to do some grammar!
What are some other ways
to say each sentence below?
1. She tried on her new dress.
Answer: She tried her new dress on.
She tried it on.
2. They called off the games due to rain.
Answer: They called the games off due to rain.
They called them off.
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(a) The gas heater blew up and destroyed the house.
(b) Can you take care of my dog while I’m away?
(c) If you come across a post office, can you buy some stamps?
(d) Did anybody come up with a solution?
(e) This year I’m going to cut down on junk food.
(f) There are so many mistakes we’ll have to do it over.
(g) I dropped by friend’s house on my way home.
(h) His grades were so bad that he decided to drop out of
university.
(i) Do you want to order in or eat out?
(j) I don’t get along with Jack so I’d prefer if you didn’t invite him.
(k) Why don’t you look up his address in the phone book?
(l) You can’t trust him because he makes up stories all the time.
(m) She picked out a long black dress to wear.
(n) We put off our vacation plans until next year.
(o) I am not going to put up with the noise and garbage anymore.
(p) I want to get rid of some old clothes.
(q) I ran into my old friend at the movie theater.
(r) Our car ran out of gas so we had to walk two hours to the gas
station.
(s) After we set up the tent, we started to make dinner.
(t) He showed up two hours late.
(u) You should take off those wet clothes.
(v) Jake talked back to his mother so his mother punished him.
(w) I turned down the volume after the neighbors complained.
(x) I usually wake up at five in the morning.
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choose
get up
look after
quit
exploded
arrived
met by chance
used up
stand, bare
delay
think of
find by chance
reduce
eat at a restaurant
have a good
relationship
do again
visit
undress
answer rudely
make quieter
arrange
tell lies
search for, find
remove, throw away
Good Job!
Remember . . .
Learning new grammar rules
takes a lot of practice, so don’t
GIVE UP!