Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs refer to two or more words including a verb, and adverb, or a preposition, which are used together as a verb and have a different meaning from the verb alone. According to Cambridge Advance Learner Dictionary, a phrasal verb consists of a verb in combination with a preposition , an adverb, or both in which the meaning is totally different from the meaning of its separate part.
This section has been essentially designed to make things easier for the EFL or ESL students acquire the most common phrasal verbs that people basically use in their everyday English. Since our students always browse and spend a lot of time on the superhighway in quest of information. Plurivision2020 believes that here is the best place to post the phrasal verbs.
Here we go !!!
1- figure....... out : When you figure out something or someone, you finally understand why something or a person acts in a certain way. To succeed to understand someone or something. Find a way to solve a problem.
I can´t figure out why she wants to get divorced after 15 years of happiness.
2- doze off :When you fall into a light sleep, you doze off.
The play was so boring last night that I couldn´t help dozing off.
3- stay off : When you stay off something , you just don´t sit or walk on it.
What can I do to get those dogs stay off my plants?
4- pull through : When you get over a bad case of the flu or any type of sickness, you pull ...
through.
Candy is very sick, but I believe she will pull through.
5- fall for : To feel a strong attraction to someone or something.
I just met Vanessa three days ago,and I fell for her in a big way.
6- feel up to : To have the energy or confidence to do something.
I am exhausted ; I don´t feel up to playing basketball tonight.
7- hear about : To hear or learn information about someone/ something.
I heard about the accident on BBC last night.
8- take.....apart : To seperate something completely from the other parts.
The jeweller can take your watch apart and fix it in no time. So Relax !
They just tore down a small house and then erected a 21-floor apartment downtown.
10- burn out : When a light bulb stops producing light because it has reached the end of
its useful life, it burns out.
My goodness! the light bulb of the kitchen burnt out two minutes ago.
Posted by teacher FREDERICK PIERRE
3 comments:
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