Phrasal Verbs

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

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Grammar Reference · Phrasal Verbs

Separable transitive

Object can go between verb and particle. They turned away patients. / They turned them away.

Inseparable transitive

Object always follows the full phrasal verb. She came up against a wall. — never split.

Three-part phrasal

Verb + particle + preposition, always inseparable. He faced up to the problem.

Common error

She faced up the issue. ✗ → She faced up to the issue. ✓ — preposition required.

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Phrasal Verbs

1.The board decided to the safety concerns raised by engineers.

2.Every startup will eventually challenges it did not predict.

3.The CEO refused to the scale of the financial losses.

4.Their lawyers spent months trying to the new data-protection law.

5.The entire neighbourhood to repair the community garden.

6.Several senior analysts against the proposed merger at yesterday's meeting.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.She ignored every criticism her manager gave her.

2.The team contributed money together to upgrade the shared workspace.

3.He enrolled in a public-speaking course last spring.

4.The new rules are hard to avoid, even for large corporations.

5.Many employees challenged the company's new remote-work policy.

6.It took years before she was willing to confront her fear of failure.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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