PHRASAL VERBS (CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR IELTS)

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR IELTS

PHRASAL VERBS

Phrasal verbs (a verb and a preposition/prepositions combined to form a new expression) are a large and very important area of English vocabulary which many students ignore. There are a lot of them, and many phrasal verbs can have more than one meaning.

Below, on the left, you will see a list of many of the verbs which are used to make phrasal verbs (the most commonly used ones are in bold). On the right you will see the prepositions which can work with these verbs to form phrasal verbs. Use a dictionary to find out which verb/preposition combinations are possible and complete the table at the bottom of the page.

You should try to build up a bank of the phrasal verbs which you are unfamiliar with and which you think are important. On the next page, there is a record sheet which you can photocopy as many times as you like, make a note of phrasal verbs on, and add to your files.

Don’t forget that some phrasal verbs use more than one preposition (for example, we ran up against some problems)

No	Verb	prepositions which can be added to form phrasal verbs	preposition
1	Break		about
2	call		across
3	carry		after
4	come		along
5	count		aside
6	cut		at
7	end		away
8	face		back
9	fall		behind
10	get		by
11	give		do
12	go		down
13	hang		for
14	hold		forward
15	keep		in
16	let		into
17	look		off
18	make		on
19	pick		out
20	pull		over
21	put		round
22	run		through
23	set		to
24	show		up
25	sort		without
26	split
27	take
28	turn
29	wear
30	work

PHRASAL VERB RECORD SHEET

MAIN VERB;

Phrasal verb	Definition	Sample sentence(s)