Indeed, as linguist Angela Downing points out, phrasal verbs are 'one of the most distinctive features of present-day informal English, both in their abundance and in their productivity' ( English Grammar: A University Course, 2014). There are hundreds of phrasal verbs in English, many of them (such as tear off, run out, and pull through) with multiple meanings. Phrasal verbs are sometimes called two-part verbs (e.g., take off and leave out) or three-part verbs (e.g., look up to and look down on). Here is a series of exercises that provides listening examples from which you match the phrasal verb to its definition or synonym.Ī phrasal verb is a type of compound verb made up of a verb (usually one of action or movement) and a prepositional adverb-also known as an adverbial particle. Phrasal verbs can also be learned in context by relating synonyms to the new phrasal verbs you learn.
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