Phrasal Verbs-Lesson

Phrasal Verbs

--> Phrasal Verbs consist of verb + adverb or verb + preposition. The meaning of these combinations is mostly very different from the verb and the adverb or preposition alone.        Let's inspect the verb look. Together with adverbs or prepositions the phrases have new meanings. Study the following examples:

• look after – He often looks after his brother. (to take care of sb/sth)
• look back – My grandfather likes to look back on his childhood. (to think about sth in the past)
• look down – They look down on her because she didn't study at a university. (to think that sb is not as good as others)
• look for – I'm looking for my watch. (to try to find sb/sth)

1.1 Phrasal Verbs

-->These verbs consist of verb + adverb. Phrasal Verbs can stand alone (intransitive verbs) or they can be used together with an object.

• Watch out. There is a bike coming.

If there is an adverb in the sentence the phrasal verb can be put before or after the object.

• He picked the broken car up.  or
• I picked up the broken car.

If you use the pronoun it for the phrase the broken car, the pronoun has to go between the verb and the adverb.            -->  e.g: I picked it up.

1.2. Prepositional Verbs

-->These verbs consist of verb + preposition. The object has to go after the preposition. The object must not go between the verb and the preposition. Prepositional Verbs cannot be separated.

• He often looks at his photos.
• incorrect: He often looks his photos at.

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Fill in the blanks with phrasal verbs from the list:

EXERCISE 1.
Get on – Look for - Switch on - Fill in – Try on – Take off – Throw away – Turn down - put out – Believe in.

1. Quick! …………. the bus. It's ready to leave.
2. I don't know where my book is. I have to …………..
3. It's dark inside. Can you …………… the light, please?
4. …………….. the form, please.
5. I need some new clothes. Why don't you ……………….. these jeans?
6. It's warm inside. …………………. your coat.
7. This pencil is really old. You can …………it ……………..
8. It's so loud here. Can you ……………………. the radio a little.
9. The firemen were able to …………………. the fire in Church Street.
10. Does your little brother …………………. ghosts?

EXERCISE 2.

Passed away- do without - look forward to - called off -  made up - carried away - break out - run out - put up with - keep up.

1. Don't smoke in the forest. Fires …………… easily at this time of the year.
2. I………………… seeing my friends again.
3. I'm afraid; we have………………  of apple juice. Will an orange juice do?
4. Your website has helped me a lot to…………….the good work.
5. A friend of mine has ……………………… her wedding.
6. His mother can't ………………….. his terrible behavior anymore.
7. As an excuse for being late, she ………………… a whole story.
8. I got ……………………….. by his enthusiasm.
9. I just cannot……………………  my mobile. I always keep it with me.
10. ………………she was very sad because her father  last week.