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Lists Main Menu.This compilation of phrasal verbs is based on:
Azar, B.S.(1985). Fundamentals of English
Grammar. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.:
Prentice-Hall. 338-339.
| Verb | Preposition | Synonym |
| ask | out | ask someone to go on a date |
| call | back | return a telephone call |
| call | off | cancel |
| call | on | ask to speak in class |
| call | up | make a telephone call |
| cross | out | draw a line through |
| do | over | do again |
| figure | out | find the solution to a problem |
| fill | in | complete a sentence by writing in a blank |
| fill | out | write information in a form (e.g. an application form) |
| fill | up | fill completely with gas, water, coffee, etc. |
| find | out | discover information |
| get | in | enter a car, a taxi |
| get | off | leave a bus, an airplane, a train, a subway, a bicycle |
| get | on | enter a bus, an airplane, a train, a subway, a bicycle |
| get | over | recover from an illness |
| give | back | return something to someone |
| give | up | quit doing something or quit trying |
| hand | in | give homework, tests, papers, etc., to a teacher |
| hand | out | give something to this person, then that person, then another person, etc. |
| hang | up |
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| keep | on | continue |
| leave | out | omit |
| look | up | look for information in a reference book |
| make | up | invent |
| pay | back | return money to someone |
| pick | up | lift |
| put | away | put something in its usual or proper place |
| put | back | return something to its original place |
| put | down | stop holding or carrying |
| put | off | postpone |
| put | on | put clothes on one's body |
| put | out | extinguish (stop) a fire, a cigarette, a cigar |
| run | into | meet by chance |
| shut | off | stop a machine or light, turn off |
| start | over | start again |
| take | off | remove clothes from one's body |
| tear | down | destroy a building |
| tear | off | detach, tear along a dotted or perforated line |
| tear | up | tear into small pieces |
| throw | away/out | put in the trash |
| try | on | put on clothing to see if it fits |
| turn | down | decrease the volume |
| turn | off | stop a machine or a light, shut off |
| turn | on | begin a machine or a light |
| turn | up | increase the volume |
| wake | up | stop sleeping |
| write | down | write a note on a piece of paper |
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