3. Read these brainteasers and speculate about what happened. The answers are on page 151. 1. Acting ona tip-off, the police raided a house to arrest ‘a man suspected of fraud. They didn’t know what he looked like, but they knew his name was John and that he was inside the house. The police burst inona banker, a lawyer, a doctor, a politician and a businessman, all playing poker. Without hesitation Cr communication of any kind, they immediately arrested the businessman. How could they have known they'd caught the suspect? 2. Antony and Cleopatra are lying dead on the floor of a Villain Egypt. Nearby there is some broken glass and 2 pool of water. There is no mark on either oftheir bodies and they were not poisoned. The only other thing noticeable inthe rooms that the window is wide open and the curtains are flapping. How could they have died? 3 Aman walks into @ chemist looking a litle ‘embarrassed. He whispers something into the chemist’s ear. The chemist then pulls out his gun ‘and points it at the man. The man smiles, thanks the chemist and walks away. What did the man say to the chemist? 4 Professor Bumble, who is getting on in years, is srowing absent-minded. On the way to a lecture one day, he went through a red light and turned down a one-way street in the wrong direction. A police officer observed the entire scene but did nothing about it. How could the professor have got away with such behaviour? ‘+ Multiword verbs are formed when a verb is followed by one or more particles, Particles can be prepositions or adverbs. The meaning of a multiword verb is sometimes very different from the meanings. ‘of the two words taken separately. In addition, some multiword verbs have different meanings. You can carry on fora while if you make no profits. They've run out of cash Here carry on is not the same as carry, and run out of i very ferent in meaning from run. = Compare with High remuneration was paid out. Here, the literal meaning of pay stays the same, + There are two different types of multiword verbs: ~ intransitive without an object) The plane has just taken off Their business idea really took ofin the third year. ~ transitive (with an object) She set up her own company. Can you pay us back? + Some can have two particles 11m looking forward to getting a high return. How did they get away with it? LANGUAGE REFERENCE ‘Some multiword verbs can be used in a transitive or intransitive way. The bank robbers got away. (intransitive) How did they get away with it? (transitive) ‘A: Any T-shirts left? Bs Sorry, we've just rum out. (intransitive) 'm afraid we've run out of time. (transitive) The intransitive uses are very similar to the transitive ‘ones, except that the object been left out. Multiword verbs can be separable or inseparable. An adverb particle can come before or after the object if the object is a noun. We've put by some money. We've put some money by. But you cannot puta pronoun after the particle with separable verbs. She added up the figures. She added the figures up. She added them up. NOT She added up-them, Ifthe object is @ long phrase, you usually put itat the end, after the phrasal verb, They've called the strike off. They've called off the strike that was planned for next week. Ifthe particle is a preposition, the verb and particle are inseparable. We've run out of money. (NOT We've run money-out. of) She splashed out on a new car. (NOT She splashed @ new-carout on.) We do not normally separate multiword verbs with ‘two particles. However, there are some transitive three-word combinations that do. She puts her success down to luck and perseverance, ‘Multinationals can play individual markets off ‘against each other. take you up on that. {A good dictionary like the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English will show which verbs are transitive or intransitive, and which are separable and which aren't. Complete these sentences using the correct particle for each multiword verb. How did the world’s bankers get out of /on with / ‘away with spending all that money that didn't exist? Do you remember that rogue trader who brought out / down /up an entire multinational bank, losing them millions? Deborah has set up a financial services company and she's already got lots of customers —ithas realy taken to /off /over. Leon applied for equity finance from a business angel, but got turned up /over /down. The figures on his business plan didn’t add up.