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Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs

Date: Oct 10 2007

Topic: Vocabulary

Author: alshehri2005

Lesson

Verb

Definition

Example

Figure out

Find the solution to a problem.

I figured out the answer.

Hand in

Give homework, papers, etc., to a teacher.

We handed in our homework.

 Hand out

Give something to person, then to the person, then to another person, etc.

The teacher handed out the test papers.

 Look up

Look for information in a dictionary, a telephone directory, an encyclopedia, etc.

I looked a word up in the dictionary.

 Make up

Invent ( a story)

Children like to make up stories.

 Pick up

Lift

Abdullah picked up stories.

 Put down

Stop holding or carrying

I put down the heavy packages.

 Put off

Postpone

We put off our trip until next summer.

 Put on

Place clothes on one's body

I put on my coat before I left.  

 Take off

Remove clothes from one's body

I took off my coat when I arrived.

 Throw away & Throw out

Put in the trash, discard

I threw away my old notebooks.

I threw out my old notebooks.

 Turn off

Stop a machine or a light

I turned off the lights and went to bed.

  Turn on

Start a machine or a light

I turned on the lights and went to bed.

 Wake up

Stop sleeping

My wife woke me up at six.

 Write down

Write a note on a piece o paper

I wrote his phone number down

 Call on

Ask ( someone ) to speak in class

The teacher called on Mohammad

 Come from

Originate

Where do these bananas come from?

 Get over

Recover from illness or a shock

Ahmad got over her cold and returned to work.

 Get off

Leave a bus/airplane/train/subway

I got off the bus at Makkah Street.

 Get on

Enter a bus/airplane/train/subway

I got on the bus at Makkah Street.

 Get in

Enter a car, taxi

I got in the taxi at the airport.

 Get out of

Leave a car, taxi

I got out of the taxi at the hotel.

 Look into

Investigate

Someone needs to look into this problem.

 Run into

Meet by chance

I ran into Ali at the Market.

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Rose10

Rose10

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

It was good but not really perfect. Cause depending on situation most of them have more than one meaning. For example, “take off”. Exept for “removing clothes from body” it has several other meanings like:



1.To leave the ground and begin to fly by a plane.


When the plane was taking off, we had fastened our seatbelts.



2. To leave a place, especially in a hurry. (informal)


When he saw me coming he took off in the opposite direction



3. To become successful or popular very quickly or suddenly.


The new magazine has really taken off.






take someone off ( impersonate)


4. To copy someone’s voice, actions, or manner in an amusing way.



He was caught trying to take off (impersonate) a security guard.


They do a pretty good job of taking off (impersonating) Laurel and Hardy.




5. To make someone stop playing, acting, etc. and leave the field or the stage.
(in sports, entertainment, etc.)


He was taken off after twenty minutes.





take something off


6. To have a period of time ( a day, a week, an afternoon or a morning) as a break from work.


I’m going to take a few days off next week.



7. To stop a public service, television program, performances of a show, etc. ( often passive)


The series was taken off because of poor ratings.



8. To remove some of people’s hair or part of their bodies, etc.


The hairdresser asked me how much she should take off.


The explosion nearly took his arm off.


As you saw it has more than one meaning and also there is more than what I mentioned so if you like to know more you could look them up in your dictionary.
Thanks.

08:40 AM Oct 09 2014 |

1 person likes this

AmerAmer

AmerAmer

Iraq

 I ran into this site by accident.

05:08 PM Oct 08 2014 |

ayuharyanips

Indonesia

awesome!!!

12:54 AM Jul 28 2013 |

alshafee

alshafee

Sudan

thank you


11:22 PM Jul 27 2013 |

Plx

Plx

Turkey

Thank you, but you should share mostly unknown verbs (:

08:14 PM Aug 15 2012 |

sina23

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

i am not so good in phrasal verb what should i do? thank  

04:11 PM Jun 27 2011 |

nellis

nellis

Indonesia

Hello janee I like to be friend with you and don't you mind give me your email address, or  you can go to a chat room and we can talk to each other maybe you have to suit your time for us to meet, I'm from Indonesian and I come online it's about 7 or  9.00 am on my time I don't know what is your suit time, maybe you can give to preview, thank you

06:47 AM Jul 01 2008 |

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nellis

nellis

Indonesia

it's interested to learn this phrasal verb it useful to use in a sentence to cut along word, well we have to pay attention in usage the phrasal verb the wrong place with make a deferent meaning. have a nice learning

06:41 AM Jul 01 2008 |

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haitham.mohammad

Egypt

good vocabularies

03:34 PM Mar 28 2008 |

melancholic

Philippines

Sorry I rated your lesson wrongly. It’s supposed to be 5-stars!!!!

05:24 AM Jan 16 2008 |

MURAT

Turkey

hello chiky ı am murat can you help me to learn english

04:44 PM Jan 09 2008 |

omercık

omercık

Turkey

thank but it is very known verb

in the exams we have to know more

04:40 PM Jan 05 2008 |

littleprinceatif

Pakistan

Thaaaaaaaaaanks :)

08:52 AM Jan 05 2008 |

Gost Whisper

United Arab Emirates

good and useful lesson good for u thanx_

08:04 AM Jan 05 2008 |

gongyawei

gongyawei

China

not very perfect ,but it is ok

07:29 AM Jan 05 2008 |

1 person likes this

lucy514

lucy514

China

very good

06:43 AM Jan 05 2008 |

pos0ne

United Kingdom

Get out of

Leave a car, taxi

I got out of the taxi at the hotel. 

is not only 4 dat.. come to london n i will teach u some of the most common phrasal verbs we use all the time

 

04:46 AM Jan 05 2008 |

pos0ne

United Kingdom

Get out of

Leave a car, taxi

I got out of the taxi at the hotel. 

is not only 4 dat.. come to london n i will teach u some of the most common phrasal verbs we use all the time

 

04:46 AM Jan 05 2008 |

Shirley Cai

China

That's very nice of U.!!

Thxs!Cool

03:28 AM Jan 05 2008 |

Arturo00

Peru

very good! Smile

10:31 PM Jan 04 2008 |

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