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Phrasal Verbs – Definition, Types, Examples, Meanings, Uses and Practice Sets

What is Phrasal Verb – Phrasal Verb is a combination of two or more words and acts as a completely new verb with a different meaning from those original verbs.

It combines a verb with an adverb or preposition to indicate a new meaning . This adverb or preposition is called the particle of the Phrasal Verb.

Example – get up , pick up, take after, go through, etc.

These verbs can be used as a normal verb in a sentence and follow the same conjugation rules .

Example – We are using ‘ get up ‘ to show how a phrasal Verb can be used –

Present Tense – He gets up early in the morning.

Past Tense – He got up early today .

Past Participle – He has just gotten up .

Present Participle – He is getting up now .

Gerund – Getting up early is his habit .

Infinitive – He practised to get up early in the morning .


Types of the Phrasal Verb –

1 . Transitive Phrasal Verb – This type of Phrasal Verb uses a direct object .

Example – The manager carried out the order.

2. Intransitive Phrasal Verb – This type of Phrasal Verb doesn’t use an object .

Example – The rain is passed off.

3. Separable Phrasal Verb – In Transitive Phrasal Verb, sometimes we can put the direct object between the verb and the particle.

Example – Let’s keep it up to get more success.

Especially if the object is Pronoun , then it sit between the verb and the particle.



4. Inseparable Phrasal Verb – In this type of Phrasal Verb, the verb and the particle can’t be separated. They stay together.

Example – Please go through the lesson carefully.






Some Phrasal verbs with their meanings –

## Students are requested to make sentences with these Phrasal Verbs –



1.Act upon ( have an influence or effect )-
2. Abidy by ( respect or obey a law or rule or decision )-
3.Account for ( explain )-
4. Aim at ( point a target )-
5.Agree with ( having same opinion as someone else )-
6.Appeal to ( plead / to be interesting )-
7.Avai of ( taking advantage of something)-
8. Bear up ( sustain )-.
9.Back up ( defend or support ) –
10.Bore away( won )-
11.Break down ( failure )-
12.Bank on ( keeping hope on something or someone)-
13.Break away ( make himself free )-.
14.Break in ( enter forcefully) –
15.Break into ( enter by breaking )-
16.Break up ( seperation )-
17.Break through ( forcefully making a passage) –
18.Bring forth ( produce )-
19.Bring down ( reduce )-.
20.Bring on (cause)-.
21.Bring up ( rear )-
22.Bring out (publish )-
23.Burn out ( stop working )-
24.Cast out ( reject )-
25. Call at (visit )-
26. Call around ( to contact multiple people )-
27. Called off ( devarted )-
28. Call for ( demand )-
29. Call off ( to cancel an event )-
30. Call upon ( order )-
31. Calm down ( to relax ) –
32. Carry on( continue)-
33. Carry over ( postpone until later )-
34. Carry out ( execute )-
35. Carried off ( taken the life off )-
36. Carried out ( flow out )
37. Come around ( Change of opinion or view )-
38. Come forward ( present oneself )-
39. Come out of ( to happen as an effect of another event )-
40.Came over ( changed sides)-
41. Come across ( meet by chance / appear, make an impression) –
42. Come about ( happen )-
43.Comes off ( takes place )-.
44. Come down with ( to catch an illness )-
45. Come up ( receive attention or arise as a topic of discussion)-
46. Come up with ( to think or produce a solution or idea for the first time )-
47. Come up against ( opposed by )-
48. Come between ( interfering between the relationship of two persons ) –
49.Come by ( get )-
50. Count on ( to rely on someone or something)-
51. Cut out ( stop doing / remove with scissors)-
52. Cut down ( cut )-
53. Cut off ( seperated , died )-
54. Cheer up ( to make someone happy , especially if they are sad )-
55. Check in ( registering at a hotel or airport)-
56. Check out ( paying bills and leave / to examine a person or thing )-
57. Crack down on ( to attack or penalise a someone )-
58. Clean up – to tidy an area / to become extremely successful in an endeavour
59. Cross out ( remove something by drawing a line through )-
60. Dive into ( eagerly starting an activity)-
61. Draw out ( prolong )-
62. Drew to ( felt attracted by )-
63. Dress up ( to wear nice clothes )-
64. Draw up ( draft / decorate ) –
65. Do for ( serve as )-
66. Done for ( ruined )-
67. Do away with ( abolished )-
68. End in ( finish in a certain way )-
69. Ease off ( became less severe)-
70.Fall apart ( to break into pieces )-
71. Fell in with ( met by chance )-
72. Fall in with ( agree with or agree to )-
73. Fell on ( attack )-
74. Fallen off ( decrease / reduce / drop off )-
75. Fell to ( started eagerly )-
76. Fell out ( quarrelled) –
77. Fell through ( failed )-
78. Fill up ( to fill a container )-
79. Find out ( to discover or learn something)-
80. Figure out ( find the answer/ understand )-
81. Focus on ( concentrate on something)-
82. Get in ( enter )-
83. Get into ( enter )-
84. Get about ( spread / come out of doors )-
85. Get around ( to travel from place to place )-
86.Get around to ( to do something eventually)-
87.Get along with ( to be harmonious with someone)-
88.Get at ( to gain access )-
89.Get by ( to manage a minimum level )-
90.Get to ( to bother someone)-
91.Get through ( to complete an unpleasant experience)-
92. Getting on ( continuing / progressing / doing )-
93. Getting along ( continuing)-
94.Get off ( escape )-
95.Get into ( to discuss something thoroughly)-
96.Get back ( to retreat something)-
97.Get back at ( to take revenge on someone)-
98.Get out ( become public / order someone for going out/ leave )-
99.Get out of ( leave / avoid doing something)-
100. Get through ( finish / succeed in / recover )-
101. Get up ( wake up / prepare / rise/ stirred up / binding ) –
102. Get over ( overcome )-
103. Get out of ( to sake some benefit from the situation)-
104. Get over ( to overcome something )-
105.Get rid off ( eliminate )-
106. Get away ( to escape )-
107. Get away with ( to commit a misdeed but not effective any negative consequences)-
108. Get down ( to discourage someone / to enjoy oneself without inhibitions )-
109. Get down to ( to start something basic or fundamental )-
110.Give away ( donate )-
111. Give out ( declare )-
112. Gave in ( yielded)-
113. Given in ( tendered )-
114. Given over ( handed over)-
115. Go about ( move about )-
116. Go for ( try to achieve something)-
117. Go aside ( going to other way )-
118. Go against ( to oppose / to disobey / to contradict / to fight against something ) –
119. Gone by ( past )-
120. Goes by ( known by )-
121. Go over ( to review or look at something)-
122.Go ahead ( forward / progress)-
123. Go by ( directed )-
124. Go on ( Continue )-
125.Gone up ( increased )-
126.Go with ( agree with)-
127.Go upon ( follow )-
128.Go along with ( to agree or pretend to agree with )-
129.Grow up ( develop / become an adult )-
130.Went off ( passed/ discharged )-
131.Hang back ( going backward )-
132.Hang down ( making head down )-
133.Hang up (suspend)-
134.Hung over ( postponed)-
135.Hang upon ( listened minutely or attentively)-
136.Hang about ( wondering near a place )-
137.Hand in ( to submit something )-
138.Hand out ( distribute )-
139.Held on ( stick with )-
140.Hold off ( keep aloof )-
141.Hit back ( reply to an attack )-
142. Held over ( postponed)-
143.Held together ( stay together)-
144. Hold up ( keep up )-
145. Held to ( stick to )-
146.Hold back ( prevent someone to do something)-
147.Hit at ( aim a blow at )-
148.Hit on / Hit upon ( by inspiration/ find unexpectedly)-
149.Iron out ( resolve by discussion / eliminate differences )-
150. Join in ( participate )-
151.Join up ( meet to unite with )-
152. Keep off ( keep away )-
153. Keep on ( continuing doing something)-
154.Keep in ( continue to agree )-
155.Keep to ( stick to )-
156.Kept up ( remained awake )-
157. Keep up ( maintain )-
158.Keep up with ( stay at the same level as someone or something)-
159.Keep down ( under control )-
160.Kept out ( keeping away from )-
161.Kick off ( begin/ start )-
162.Laid down (gave up / written )-
163.Lay by ( store for the future )-
164.Laid up ( stored / confined to bed )-
165.Laid out ( decorated / extended )-
166.Leave out ( omit )-
167.Let go of ( to free or release someone or something)-
168.Let know ( to tell something to someone)-
169.Let in ( allowing someone to enter )-
170.Leave out ( to omit something)-
171.Look after ( take care )-
172.Look ahead ( think of the future )-
173.Look down upon ( deride )-
174. Look in( a short visit )-
175.Look on ( be a spectator at something or at an event )-
176.Look into ( enquire into )-
177.Look upon ( regard )-
178.Look down on ( consider as inferior)-
179.Look for ( try to find out something)-
180.Look forward to ( await or anticipate with pleasure ) –
181.Look up to ( to idioloze or admire someone )-
182.Look over ( examine )-
183.Look to ( rely on / attend )-
184.Look up ( find out )-
185.Look up to ( admire )-
186. Looking up ( rising )-
187. Look out ( be on the watch )-
188. Made away with ( destroyed)-
189. Made after ( pursued )-
190. Made over ( delivered )-
Make up ( complete / invent excuse / recover / compensate for )-
191. Made up (composed / preparing mind )-
192. Make of ( understand)-
193. Made of ( composed of ) –
194. Move in ( arrive in a new home or office )-
195. Move out ( leaving home or office for another one )-
196. Note down ( Write something)-
197. Opt out ( decide not to participate)-
198. Pay back ( reimburse)-
199. Pass away ( die )-
200. Passed by ( neglected )-
201. Passed for ( was regarded as )-
202. Passed off ( ceased gradually / completed successfully )-
203. Pass out ( faint )-
204. Pass off ( deceive with )-
205. Passed away ( died )-
206. Pass on ( proceed )-.
207. Passed through ( experienced / went through ) –
208. Pick up ( collect somebody ) –
209. Point out ( indicate something )-
210.Put by ( lay aside )-
211.Put down ( write / suppressed ) –
212.Put in ( submitted / include )-
213.Put on ( to dress ) –
214.Put off ( Postpone)-
215.Put out ( extinguish /drawn out / stretched out / discouraged / switch off )-
216.Put up (accommodate/ raise / post / lodge or stay )-
217.Pull up ( to bring something nearer )-
218.Ran down ( run and catch )-
219.Ran down ( being tired of hard work)-
220.Run into ( meet by unexpectedly/ bump into)-
221.Run out ( exhausted)-
222.Run out of ( to use all of the resources)-
223.Run away ( escape or leave suddenly)-
224. Ran over ( overflowed )
225. Ran off ( ran and escaped)-
226. Ran through ( checking quickly/ break through)-
227. Rely on ( depend on / trust / count on )-
228. Rule out ( eliminate)-
229. See to ( to make sure something is done )-
230. Set aside ( cancelled/ kept aside )-
231. Set forth ( exhibited / started )-
232. Set off ( started / increased the beauty of )-
233. Set out ( started/ spread out )-.
234. Set to ( begin )-
235. Set in ( began ) –
236. Set up ( establish/ starting a profession / raised / represent )-
237. Sit down ( take a sir )-
238. Stand up for ( defend / support )-
239. Stand for ( represent)-
240. Shop around ( comparing prices )-
241. Stand against ( resist )-
242. Stand by ( support ) –
243. Stand up ( rising or standing from a sitting position)-
244. Show off ( want to be admired )-
245. Show up ( appear / arrive )-
246. Shut off ( to turn off )-
247. Shut up ( order to make silent / stop talking ) –
248. Take after ( follow in resemblance)-
249. Take in ( understand)-
250. Taken in ( cheated / enclosed )-
251. Take on ( hire or engage staff )-
252. Take back ( withdraw )-
253. Taken to ( habituated to )-
254.Take care of ( look after )-
255.Took to ( find of )-
256.Taken up with ( absorbed in )-
257.Took up ( adopted )-.
258. Take down ( record )-
259. Take off ( leaving the ground )-
260. Take out ( remove / to move something outside / extract )-
261. Tells upon ( affects )-
262. Turn away ( dismiss )-
263. Turned away ( neglecting / moving face other side )-
264. Turn down ( to reject / to say no to someone )-
265. Turned out ( proved / keeping someone out )-
266. Turn up ( appear )-
267. Turned in ( went to bed / entered in passing )-
268. Think over ( to consider something )-
269. Throw away ( dispose something)-
270. Wait on ( to serve someone , especially in restaurant)-
271. Work upon ( influence )-


Let’s Try to use some Phrasal Verb 1 . Our teacher can’t tolerate any indiscipline.

2. Hope you must recover perfectly from the disease.

3. My grandmother forgot to remember her childhood friends’ names.

4. I am very tired after a whole day of work.

5. Don’t quarrel with each other in the workplace.

6. The team will reach the victory point.

7. Don’t depend on others for your success.

8. The students continue to prepare for the next attempt.

9. Examiner will carefully examine the answer scripts.

10. He is so brilliant to understand the solution.

11. The visitors will stay at the hotel for an week.

12. The tiger attacked the deer .

13. The officer recorded the data in a pen drive.

14. The new principal will accept the charge within a few days.

15. Workers have been exhausted after a very hard day in the factory.

16. The oldest man in the village died yesterday.

17. In this advanced world we can’t always stay behind.

18. He experienced great suffering during his illness.

19. Your child must stay away from bad guys.

20. The thief ran away with a ladies bag.

Try to solve by yourself – Read the bold words in the above sentences and try to match with these phrasal verbs given below.——–

done up, keep on, made off, call up, ran at, hang on , bear with, get at ,came round, hold back , set down , take over , went through, put up , worked out , fell out, keep from, passed away, make out, looked through,

Answers – 1. bear with 2. came round 3. call up 4. done up 5.fell out 6. get at 7. hang on 8. keep on 9. looked through 10. make out 11. put up 12. ran at 13. set down 14. take over 15. worked out 16. passed away 17. hold back , 18. went through , 19. keep feom 20. made off


Look at these phrasal verbs given below and also try to understand their meanings in brackets.

Then make sentences with these , one is done for you –

1. Act up to ( work as per expectation)– They can’t act up to my expectations.

2. Broke forth ( suddenly appeared)-

3. Broke in upon ( suddenly entering by force)–

4. Carry on ( To continue ) –

5. Carry out ( Execute ) –

6. Draw back ( pull back or recede )-

7.Fall back ( retreat) –

8. Get away ( flee or escape) –

9.Grow up ( develop or mature ) –

10. Give up ( stop ) –

11. Go out ( expire or fade out ) –

12. Hand over ( deliver ) –

13 . Hold in ( check ) –

14. Hold with ( being agree ) –

15. Held up (delayed or deferred) –

16. Keep up ( Maintain ) –

17. Keep at ( Stick to or Stay with ) –

18. Lay aside ( Keeping for future ) –

19. Look for ( Searching ) –

20. Make off ( escape or fly ) –

21. Make for ( move towards or travel towards ) –

22. Pass over ( bypass or neglect ) –

23 .Put on ( Wear ) –

24. Ran after ( pursued or chased ) –

25. Set about ( begin or starting ) –

26. Stand out ( emerged ) –

27. Take off ( depart or withdraw ) –

28. Turn on ( get started , stimulate ) –

29. Turn off ( Put off ) –

30. Work up ( excited or feeling an emotion ) –



Try to match the Column ‘ A ‘ with Column ‘ B ‘

Try it yourself, then you can find the answers below –

Column
A ‘ ————- —– ColumnB

1. Blow out — – – — a. Rejected

2. Ask for. ——— b. Restore

3. Brought up. — —— c. Tolerate

4. Came out. ——— d. Find the

answer

5. Catch on. ———- e. Followed

6. Went after. ———- f. To

extinguish

7. Check out. ———– g. Established

8. Deal with ———— h. Published

9. Hand on. ———– i. Leave a

hotel

10. End up. —————- j. Understand

11. Kept back. ————– k. Reared

12. Calm down. ———— l . Pass on

13. Get together. ———— m. Confusion

14. Put back. ————- n. Concealed

15. Set up. —————- o. Reaching to

a Conclusion

16. Let down. ————— p. Get relaxed

17. Turned down ———— q. Disappoint

someone

18. Mix up. —————— r. Doing

everything to solve a problem

19. Put up with. ———— s. Meet together

20. Figure out. —————— t. Request for

something

Answer – 1-f , 2 -t , 3- k , 4- h, 5 – j, 6 – e, 7- i , 8- r, 9- l, 10 -o, 11-n, 12-p, 13-s, 14-b, 15-g, 16-q, 17-a, 18- m, 19- c, 20 -d.