This document defines and provides examples of common English phrasal verbs: 1) "Break up" means to end a relationship such as a marriage or band. "Come on" is used to encourage or disagree. "Get up" refers to waking from sleep and rising. "Go on" means to happen or take place. 2) "Go out" means to leave home for social activities. "Grow up" means to become an adult. "Hang up" ends a phone call. "Let somebody down" is to fail to support as expected. 3) "Wear somebody/yourself out" means to become exhausted from overuse. "Turn up" means to arrive or appear.

1. PHRASAL
VERBS

2. BREAK UP
Meaning: comes to an end, end a relationship.
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- It’s always hard when a marriage breaks up, especially if there are children.
- After three albums, the band broke up in order to have solo careers.
- He’s just broken up with his girlfriend.
- Why are you crying? “Chris thinks we should break up”
The phrase “Break up” is used for:
(of a relationship) to come to an end.
(Of people) to end a relationship; to stop working.

3. COME ON
Meaning: to show that you are thinking about something.
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- Come on! We’ll be late if we don’t hurry up!
- Come on, Andy, give us a smile, Everything’s going to be OK.
- Come on, urged Laura, ‘Don’t be shy!’
You thought the movie was good? Oh come on, it was terrible!
The phrase “Come on” is used for:
Used to encourage somebody to do something, to show that you do not believe what
somebody has said or to disagree with somebody.

4. GET UP; GET somebody UP
Meaning: after wake up you get out of bed.
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- What time do you have to get up tomorrow?
- Harry up! It’s time to get up!
I got the children up early this morning.
It’s 8:30 and Mark’s still in bed. I’d better go and get him up.
The phrase “get up”; get somebody up is used for:
To get out of bed; to make somebody get out of bed.

5. GO ON
Meaning: means the same as to happen.
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- What’s going on here?
- He never told me what we went on at work.
- Something was going on and I wanted to know what.
- The public have a right to know goes on behind the scenes.
The phrase “go on” is to take place; to happen.

6. GO OUT
Meaning: to leave your home to go to a social event.
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- We’re going out for a pizza. Do you want to come?
- You look very smart this evening. Are you going out?
He goes out a lot.
Jenny usually goes out with her friends on Friday evenings.
You’ve missed Jack – he’s just gone out for the evening.
The phrase “go out” is used for:
Leave your house to go to social events.

7. GROW UP
Meaning: to increase in size, number, etc.
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- We always spent summer at the beach when we were growing up.
- He wants to be a firefighter when he grows up.
I grew up in a big city.
He has grown up to be a very responsible adult.
Oh, grow up! Stop being so childish!
The phrase “grow up” is used for:
- Become an adult; to spend the time when you are a child in a particular place or a particular
way.

8. HANG UP; HANG UP SOMETHING
Meaning: to continuo a telephone conversation, to end a
telephone conversation.
Read these sentences carefully.
- I said goodbye and hung up.
- The number you dialed is busy. Please hang up and try again.
As soon as he hung up the phone, it rang again.
- Don’t hang up on me, please. We need to talk.
The phrase “hang up: hung up something” is used for:
- end a telephone conversation, often very suddenly, by putting down the part of the telephone
that you speak into or switching the telephone off.

9. LET somebody DOWN
Meaning: to help somebody.
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- When he missed that penalty, he felt that he’d let the team down.
-We think that this government has let down particular communities.
- Don’t worry – I won’t let you down this time, I promise.
- He finds it hard to trust anyone – he’s been badly let down in the past.
The phrase “let somebody down” is used for:
- Fail to help or support somebody in the way that they hope or expect.

10. WEAR somebody or yourself OUT
Meaning: If something wears out it can no longer be used.
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- She wore her parents out by refusing to go to bed every night.
- The kids have worn me out today.
- You’ll wear yourself out if you carry on working so hard.
The verb “wear somebody or yourself out” is used for:
- become, or to make something become, thin or no longer able to be used, usually because it
has been used too much.

11. TURN UP
Meaning: to arrive, to appear.
Read these sentences carefully.
- He turned up late, as usual.
- The cab didn’t turn up so9 we had to walk.
- By the time I turned up at the party, most people had already left.
Around 5.000 people turned up to celebrate that start of the new year.
You don0t need to book a place on the course – just turn up.
The verb “turn up” is used for:
Arrive.