Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs

1. Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb and one or more particles (which can be prepositions or adverbs) that have a different meaning than the verb alone.

2. How do you use them?

   • Transitive: Needs object "She picked up the phone." Intransitive: No object "We ran into each other."
   • Separable: Can place object in between "She picked up the book." Inseparable: No separation "She looks after the kids."
   • Multiple meanings: Context-dependent Pick up = recoger, aprender, mejorar

3. Come

   • Come up: happen unexpectedly, usually a problem or difficult situation. Ex: I was ready to leave for office, but something very important came up
   • Come up: mentioned or disscussed. Ex: Only if the issue comes up in the meeting will I tell the committee about the problem
   • Come out: Become known. Ex: No secret is a secret forever the truth will come out sooner or later
   • Come up with: Produce a plan or idea. Ex: How did you ever come up with that absurd idea?

4. Break

   • Break down: to stop functioning ( vehicle or machine) Ex: I'm very sorry because many father's car broke down yesterday
   • .Break up: End a relationship Ex: Clay and Michael broken up. They hat been together for two years
   • Break out: Escape. Ex: The prisoners broke out of jail yesterday
   • Break into: Interrumpt (a conversation) Ex. Samuel Break into the conversation and told us

5. Run

   • Run into: Enter by runing. Ex: He run into the building
   • Run down: Lose power slowly- Ex: If you don't switch off the car lights, you will run the battery down
   • Run Back: Rewind a film or cassette. Ex: Can you run it back to the beginning, please?
   • Run Away: Leave srecretly with another person. Ex: She ran away with my best friends

6. Look

   • Look after: Whats or protect; to keep safe. Ex: he asked me to look after is daugther while he was away
   • Look for: search for; to seek. Ex: He spen is his life looking for the truth
   • Look out: Look from within to the outside. Ex: Look out, and you will see the rain has stopped
   • Look up: Have better prospects, to improve. Ex: Things started looking up after fim moved back in with is parents