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PHRASAL VERBS Section 3

Developed by B. Jolamanova
ASSIGNMENTS
1. Study the following verbs, their meanings and examples. Get ready for a test.
2. Add a column to the table above with YOUR OWN example of using the phrasal verb.
# Phrasal verb Meaning Examples
1 Hold with to agree with; support I don't hold with your theories
2 Join in to take part; participate joined in the search.
3 Keep up with sth/sb to match sb in success or lifestyle; to work to appear I couldn't keep up with his friends who went into business
contemporary and fashionable. I don't care about keeping up with the times.
4 Lay off to put an end to someone's employment at something. The automobile factory laid five hundred people off from work.
5 Let down to fail someone or something; to disappoint someone or Please don't let me down. I am depending on you.
a group. I let down the entire team.
6 Let off to release or dismiss someone without punishment. The teacher let off Mary with a warning.
7 Live up to to live or act in accordance with; prove equal to lived up to their parents' ideals/ to our expectations.
8 Make up for compensate; catch up We drove as fast as we could, trying to make up for lost time
9 Put sth down to sth explain sth by some reason I put it down to his lack of manners
10 Put forward to suggest someone or something; to offer for . I put Henry forward as a possible nominee.
consideration I would like to put forward a plan.
11 Put off to delay; postpone; repel or repulse, as from bad put off paying the bills. His indifferent attitude has put us off.
manners
Put sb up to provide lodgings for: put a friend up for the night.
12 Put up with sth to endure without complaint We had to put up with the inconvenience.
13 Refer to sb/sth as to call someone or something by a particular name Some people referred to them as freedom fighters. Hhis friends
refer to him as “Chuck.”
14 Relate to to associate something to something. I relate this particular problem to the failure of the company to
provide proper training.
15 Run out of sth use all of sth and not have any left run out of water/patience/money
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/; The British National Corpus (BNC) http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

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