Level 5Healthgrammar

Phrasal Verbs — The New Face of Beauty

Grammar: Phrasal verbs

Free ESL grammar exercise on phrasal verbs themed around the new face of beauty. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on health, practising phrasal verbs. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

Surgeons once struggled to fill waiting lists. Now many turn away prospective patients within days. People are coming up against a version of beauty that is algorithmically generated.

Grammar: 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.

Sample items

  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.

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