Phrasal verb fun learn phrasal verbs easily naturally and faster than before

188 Pages·2016·1.22 MB·English

by  Peter Gray

PHRASAL
VERB FUN

Peter Gray

Second Edition, Enlarged and Revised
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Copyright 2014 © Peter Gray

For the second edition, I want to thank three people in particular who
helped me. Noni Lu, may there be no end to our friendship, José Sierra,
who now knows when something is broken or not quite right.and
MªJesus Segura for being such a fantastic friend.
This book is dedicated to all my
students who taught me most of
what I know
How to Use This Book

Most people think that phrasal verbs, verbs with more than one word, are
hard to learn. As students we are given lists and lists of them to
memorise, and we usually find the whole thing boring, complicated, and
really hard to remember.
I have been teaching for many years and this is the number one complaint
of my students.
This book is different. There are no lists and there is nothing to memorise.
Instead, there are over 600 little stories, one for each verb. The fact is
that phrasal verbs are not a logical system, designed by some maniac a
few centuries ago. No. There are simply something that grew up naturally.
Most natives don't even know the expression phrasal verbs. We never
learn them at school. We know the difference between chopping down a
tree and then chopping it up. We also know that when a building burns
down, it is the same as when it burns up. Neither do we ever confuse put
up your cousin with put up with him.
When I was thinking about this book, I quickly discovered that the verbs
fell into groups, and that the up of drink up had a completely different
meaning from the up of give up. So I grouped these verbs together in the
particle index. You might like to go there first.
I suggest that you start anywhere you like in this book, and then jump
about at random for about ten minutes. Don't try to memorise, don't try to
learn. Just play with it. You may like to say the various sentences aloud.
You may like to pretend to be a star and speak in front of your bathroom
mirror to an adoring crowd. Be an actor. Fool around. Have fun with it.
Then next day, another ten minutes.
If you do this every day, I money-back guarantee that in about ten days
you will know more about phrasal verbs than 99% of all non-native
teachers who teach English for a living.
I also promise you that you will have fun doing it.
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Table of Contents

Phrasal Verb Structure
ask...
back...
bang...
bank...
be...
bear...
beat...
blow...
boil...
bottle...
break...
bring...
brush...
burn...
call...
calm...
carry...
catch...
chat...
check...
cheer...
close...
come...
count...
cross...
cut...
deal...
die...
do...
dress...
drink...
dry...
end...
face...
fall...
feel...
figure...
fill...
find...
fit...
fix...
follow...
get...
give...
go...
grow...
hand...
hang...
have...
hold...
join...
keep...
knock...
know...
lay...
leave...
let...
lie...
live...
look...
make...
mix...
move...
name...
own...
pass...
pick...
play...
point...
pull...
push...
put...
rule...
run...
see...
sell...
send...
set...
settle...
show...
shut...
sign...
sink...
sit...
sort...
speak...
split...
stand...
start...
stay...
step...
stick...
take...
talk...
tell...
think...
throw...
try...
turn...
use...
watch...
wear...
work...
Particle Index
Phrasal Verb Structure

Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word.
There are four categories - from the point of view of structure - and you
must be clear which category each verb belongs to.
1. Two-word verb without an object, sometimes called intransitive verbs
(because the action is not 'transmitted' to an object).
For example
Every morning, I get up. (No object. Nobody else is involved.)
No problem.
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2a. Inseparable two-word verb This means that nothing can go between
the two words.
That horrible dog just turned on me. (It suddenly attacked me.)
This is not a problem if you learn this verb as turn on me, turn on you,
turn on him, and so on.
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2b. Separable two-word verb This can be a little more difficult. If the
object is short, like a pronoun (you remember, words like I, me, him, us) it
MUST come between the two words of the verb. If not, you have a
choice.
For example
I turned on the television.
I turned the television on.
I turned it on. (Now we can watch it.)
This can be a problem. So you have to remember it as turn it on.
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3. Three-word verbs are almost always inseparable.
I don't know how you put up with him. He is so rude all the time.
No problem.
But there is a small group of three-word verbs which have an object
get it over with
put it down to
take it up with
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