Phrasal verbs represent a practically limitless group of verbs that can be combined with short adverbs or prepositions to produce new meanings. Here are some examples: Phrasal verbs are ubiquitous in ...

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Do you know how to use do up, do over, or do without? In this lesson, Claire teaches six of the most common English phrasal ...

"Turn off the TV" is an example of a phrasal verb, which is a verb that has a base verb and one or two particles. Credit: MikeSleigh/Getty Images A ‘phrasal verb’ is a verb that has a base verb and ...

A phrasal verb is a verb that is combined with a preposition (e.g. in, on, with) or an adverbial particle (e.g. up, out, off) The preposition or adverbial particle extend the meaning of the verb to ...

A good number of phrasal verbs include the preposition, ‘with’. Such are done with, get away with and bear with. Apart from the fact that they have fixed, meanings they should not be indiscriminately ...

I have a friend who uses “hark back” a lot in conversation. She harks back to past news events. She harks back to old times. She harks back to something I told her last month or last year. My first ...

Go off has a few meanings. It can mean to leave a place. They had to go off for dinner. It can mean to suddenly start making noise. Did you hear the alarm go off this morning? It can be used when a ...

Don't put off learning some phrasal verbs with put. We explain more in this lesson. To put someone down can mean to insult someone or say they are bad. They always put their brother down. I don't know ...

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