Grammar 1
What is a phrasal verb?
Two words that together act as a completely new word.
You can translate phrasal verbs directly and it will make sense.
True or false?
False.
Get out of.
Escape something or a situation.
Set up.
Put something in position
Take off.
become successful or popular .
How many types of phrasal verbs exist?
Two. Transitive and intransitive
You can alter a phrasal verb depending on the tense?
True or false?
True.
Call off.
Cancel something.
Come up with.
Create or produce something, especially on the spot.
Fall back on.
use something when another thing has failed.
What are the two types of transitive phrasal verbs?
Separable and inseparable
What is the structure of a phrasal verb?
verb+preposition or an adverb
Put Off
Postopone, delay to later.
Put down to.
consider someone or something to be caused by something
Try out.
test something different.
When is it necessary to separate a separable phrasal verb?
When the object is a pronoun
How do you know which is separable and which is inseparable?
Just by memory.
Figure out.
Understand or solve something.
Get over.
Overcome, recover from a situation.
Come about.
To Happen
What happens with a pronoun in inseparable phrasal verbs and three-word phrasal verbs?
the pronoun HAS to come after
In separable phrasal verbs, what can you do with the object if it is NOT a pronoun?
you can place it between or after the phrasal verb
Come across.
Meet or find something or someone by chance.
Hit on.
Discover or think of something, especially by chance.
Keep on.
Continue doing something.