1. Helena Turk

2. Helena Turk

5. VERB + PREPOSITION or PARTICLE
look up
make
on
put
down
take
+
out of
get
run over
bring off
break
out
turn
for...
carry...

6. VERB + PREPOSITION or PARTICLE
look for = search
make up = invent
put out = extinguish
take off = leave the ground
get over = recover
run out of = have none left
bring up = rear, educate
break down = collapse
turn up = appear unexpectedly
carry on = continue

7. VERB+ PARTICLE + PREPOSITION
keep up with advance at the same pace
run out of have none left
put up with bear patiently
look forward to expect with pleasure

8. Phrasal verbs express a particular meaning:
literal idiomatic
Take off your jacket. I’ve taken up golf.
Put out the cat. The car broke down.
Look at the picture. Only 20 people turned up.

9. PHRASAL VERBS WITH LITERAL AND
IDIOMATIC MEANING
PUT OUT
I always put out the cat at night.
Put out the cigarette, please.
(extinguish)

10. PHRASAL VERBS WITH LITERAL AND
IDIOMATIC MEANING
PICK UP
Can you pick up the diskette for me,
please? I dropped it.
I picked up some new slang
expressions while watching that
movie.
(learn)

11. PHRASAL VERBS WITH LITERAL AND
IDIOMATIC MEANING
TAKE OFF
Take off that funny party hat. You look
stupid in it.
The plane took off 10 minutes ago.
(leave the ground)

12. Helena Turk

13. 4 Phrasal Verbs
The Things We Do
Focus on Grammar 3
Part II, Unit 10
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

14. Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs = verb + particle
The particle looks like a
Preposition, but it doesn’t
function as a preposition.
He woke up at 6:30 a.m.
Strangers woke him up.

15. Particles
Particles
Particles are part of the verb phrase, and they
often change the meaning of the verb.
preposition
He looked up at
the skyscraper.
particle
She looked up a
word in her dictionary.

16. Using Phrasal Verbs
Using Phrasal Verbs
Many phrasal verbs and one-word verbs
have similar meanings.
wake up = awaken
go on = continue
off
take
take off = remove
Phrasal verbs are less
formal and more common
in everyday speech.

17. Transitive Phrasal Verbs
Transitive Phrasal Verbs
1
1
Transitive phrasal verbs have objects.
Most transitive phrasal verbs are separable.
object
He called up his boss to
tell him he had overslept.
object
He called his boss up to
tell him he had overslept.

18. Transitive Phrasal Verbs
Transitive Phrasal Verbs
2
2
The object can come after the phrasal verb or
between the verb and the particle.
No At the last minute, the bride
wedding called off the wedding.
!
object
At the last minute, the bride
called the wedding off.
object

19. Be Careful!
Be Careful!
When the object is a pronoun, it must come
between the verb and the particle.
A friend called up her at work.
object
A friend called her up at work.
object

20. Intransitive Phrasal Verbs 1
Intransitive Phrasal Verbs 1
Intransitive phrasal verbs do not have
objects.
no object
He grew up in Egypt.
no object
She will hang up before she
gets into her car.

21. Intransitive Phrasal Verbs 2
Intransitive Phrasal Verbs 2
Intransitive phrasal verbs do not have
objects.
no objects
First I worked out for an hour.
Then I dressed up and
dropped in at the party.
No one found out that I
didn’t have an invitation!

22. Be Careful!
Be Careful!
Note the difference in meaning between make,
make up (transitive), and make up (intransitive).
I make up dinner every night.
dinner every night.
He made up a story
about Jill and Joe. make up
= invent
(transitive)
make up
= reconcile
They made up. They
up
(intransitive) were friends again.

23. Phrasal verbs can be:
•intransitive (no direct object)
•transitive (direct object)
phrasal meaning examples
verbs
direct
object
INTRANSITIVE get up rise from bed I don't like
phrasal verbs to get up.
break down cease to He was late
function because his
car broke
down.
TRANSITIVE put off postpone We will have the meeting.
phrasal verbs to put off
turn down refuse They turned my offer.
down

24. Separable Phrasal Verbs:
When phrasal verbs are transitive (that is, they have a direct object),
we can usually separate the two parts.
(CORRECT)
transitive They turned down my offer.
phrasal verbs
are usually (CORRECT)
They turned my offer down.
separable

25.  direct object pronouns must go between the two parts of
transitive phrasal verbs
(CORRECT)
John switched on the radio. These are
(CORRECT) all
John switched the radio on.
possible.
(CORRECT)
John switched it on.
(INCORRECT)
John switched on it. This
is not
possible.

26. Let´s get it done!
Let´s get it done!
• 1. Why do we always talk the weather about?
2. My mother switched the radio off this morning.
3. I will look your letter forward to.
4. He was nice, but we turned down him.
5. I believe in ghosts, don't you?
6. We will have to wait the bus for at the corner.
7. Melissa is going to look after the children.
8. I have to put the baby down while I sweep the floor.
9. Why don't you switch the music over while you wait?
10. Can you go to the store before we run milk out of.

27. Use each of the phrasal verbs to
Practice 1 form three sentences about things
that sometimes happen.
Example: wake up = awaken
The baby often wakes up the parents.
parents
The baby often wakes the
parents up.
up The baby often wakes
them up.
up
1. pick out = select 2. figure out = solve 3. hand in = submit, give
4. take off = remove 5. make up = create 6. let down = disappoint

28. What happens before and during a
Practice 2 party? Make sentences using the
transitive and intransitive phrasal
verbs.
intransitive
Example: dress up I dress up nicely.
ask over = invite put on = use clothes
1. 2.
set up = prepare straighten up = make neat
3. 4.
show up = appear let in = allow to enter
5. 6.
7. run out = not have enough
intransitive
intransitive