Verb | Meaning | Example |
call on | ask to recite in class يطلب من / يسأل | The teacher called on students in the back row. |
call on (2) | visit يزور | The old minister continued to call on his sick parishioners. |
get over | recover from sickness or disappointment يشفى من مرض او من خيبة امل | I got over the flu, but I don't know if I'll ever get over my broken heart. |
go over | review يراجع | The students went over the material before the exam. They should have gone over it twice. |
go through | use up; consume | They country went through most of its coal reserves in one year. Did he go through all his money already? |
look after | take care of | My mother promised to look after my dog while I was gone. |
look into | investigate | The police will look into the possibilities of embezzlement. |
run across | find by chance | I ran across my old roommate at the college reunion. |
run into | meet | Carlos ran into his English professor in the hallway. |
take after | resemble | My second son seems to take after his mother. |
wait on | serve | It seemed strange to see my old boss wait on tables. |
Three-Word Phrasal Verbs (Transitive) With the following phrasal verbs, you will find three parts: "My brother dropped out of school before he could graduate." | ||
Verb | Meaning | Example |
break in on | interrupt (a conversation) | I was talking to Mom on the phone when the operator broke in on our call. |
catch up with | keep abreast | After our month-long trip, it was time to catch up with the neighbors and the news around town. |
check up on | examine, investigate | The boys promised to check up on the condition of the summer house from time to time. |
come up with | to contribute (suggestion, money) | After years of giving nothing, the old parishioner was able to come up with a thousand-dollar donation. |
cut down on | curtail (expenses) | We tried to cut down on the money we were spending on entertainment. |
drop out of | leave school | I hope none of my students drop out of school this semester. |
get along with | have a good relationship with | I found it very hard to get along with my brother when we were young. |
get away with | escape blame | Janik cheated on the exam and then tried to get away with it. |
get rid of | eliminate | The citizens tried to get rid of their corrupt mayor in the recent election. |
get through with | finish | When will you ever get through with that program? |
keep up with | maintain pace with | It's hard to keep up with the Joneses when you lose your job! |
look forward to | anticipate with pleasure | I always look forward to the beginning of a new semester. |
look down on | despise | It's typical of a jingoistic country that the citizens look down on their geographical neighbors. |
look in on | visit (somebody) | We were going to look in on my brother-in-law, but he wasn't home. |
look out for | be careful, anticipate | Good instructors will look out for early signs of failure in their students |
look up to | respect | First-graders really look up to their teachers. |
make sure of | verify | Make sure of the student's identity before you let him into the classroom. |
put up with | tolerate | The teacher had to put up with a great deal of nonsense from the new students. |
run out of | exhaust supply | The runners ran out of energy before the end of the race. |
take care of | be responsible for | My oldest sister took care of us younger children after Mom died. |
talk back to | answer impolitely | The star player talked back to the coach and was thrown off the team. |
think back on | recall | I often think back on my childhood with great pleasure. |
walk out on | abandon | Her husband walked out on her and their three children. |
Intransitive Phrasal Verbs The following phrasal verbs are not followed by an object: "Once you leave home, you can never really go back again." | ||
Verb | Meaning | Example |
break down | stop functioning | That old Jeep had a tendency to break down just when I needed it the most. |
catch on | become popular | Popular songs seem to catch on in California first and then spread eastward. |
come back | return to a place | Father promised that we would never come back to this horrible place. |
come in | enter | They tried to come in through the back door, but it was locked. |
come to | regain consciousness | He was hit on the head very hard, but after several minutes, he started to come to again. |
come over | to visit | The children promised to come over, but they never do. |
drop by | visit without appointment | We used to just drop by, but they were never home, so we stopped doing that. |
eat out | dine in a restaurant | When we visited Paris, we loved eating out in the sidewalk cafes. |
get by | survive | Uncle Heine didn't have much money, but he always seemed to get by without borrowing money from relatives. |
get up | arise | Grandmother tried to get up, but the couch was too low, and she couldn't make it on her own. |
go back | return to a place | It's hard to imagine that we will ever go back to Lithuania. |
go on | continue | He would finish one Dickens novel and then just go on to the next. |
go on (2) | happen | The cops heard all the noise and stopped to see what was going on. |
grow up | get older | Charles grew up to be a lot like his father. |
keep away | remain at a distance | The judge warned the stalker to keep away from his victim's home. |
keep on (with gerund) | continue with the same | He tried to keep on singing long after his voice was ruined. |
pass out | lose consciousness, faint | He had drunk too much; he passed out on the sidewalk outside the bar. |
show off | demonstrate haughtily | Whenever he sat down at the piano, we knew he was going to show off. |
show up | arrive | Day after day, Efrain showed up for class twenty minutes late. |
wake up | arouse from sleep | I woke up when the rooster crowed. |
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