PHRASAL VERBS

Most common complaints children have from their parents

Turn off that light!

Clean up the garden

Hang up the towels

Turn down the volume

Get off from the sofa

Put on your shoes

Put away your books

Take out the rubbish

Throw away the old TV

Turn on the light

Turn off the computer Put out the cigarette

VERB look put get bring

PREPOSITION or PARTICLE up

make

on
down

take
run break

out of over off out for...

turn

carry...

VERB

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for up out off over out of up = = = = = = = = = =

PREPOSITION or PARTICLE

look make put take

search invent extinguish leave the ground recover have none left rear, educate collapse appear unexpectedly continue

get
run bring turn carry

break down
up on

PARTICLES
Nouns, pronouns, verbs, or articles The definite particle the The infinitive to, as in to walk Prepositions, such as over in I went over

the hill
Adverbs and adverbial portions of phrasal verbs, such as off in we put it off too long

VERB+

PARTICLE +

PREPOSITION
advance at the same pace have none left bear patiently expect with pleasure

keep up with
run out of put up with look forward to

Phrasal verbs express a particular meaning:

literal Take off your jacket. Put out the cat.

idiomatic
Ive taken up golf.

The car broke down.

Look at the picture.

Only 20 people turned up.

PHRASAL VERBS WITH LITERAL AND IDIOMATIC MEANING

PUT OUT

I always put out the cat at night.

Put out the cigarette, please. (extinguish)

PHRASAL VERBS WITH LITERAL AND IDIOMATIC MEANING

PICK UP
Can you pick up the diskette for me, please? I dropped it.

I picked up some new slang expressions while watching that movie.

(learn)

PHRASAL VERBS WITH LITERAL AND IDIOMATIC MEANING

TAKE OFF
Take off that funny party hat. You look stupid in it.

The plane took off 10 minutes ago.

(leave the ground)

PHRASAL VERBS
SEPARABLE Turn off the computer Turn the computer off

INSEPARABLE She looked after the children She looked them after???xx

PRONOUNS
SEPARABLE Turn off the computer Turn IT off Turn off it???xxx INSEPARABLE She looked THEM after ??? xxx She looked after them

CONCLUSION
SEPARABLE: Nouns go after the preposition or between verb & preposition (Turn on the light / turn the light on) Pronouns ALWAYS go between the verb and preposition (She threw it away)

INSEPARABLE
INSEPARABLE Nouns & Pronouns ALWAYS go after the preposition She ran into my friend She ran into him

HOW DO I KNOW?

LOOK IT UP!!!
SEPARABLE:
v + o + adv /v+ adv +o

INSEPARABLE
v+ adv +o