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SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS ALWAYS SEPARATED (OBJECT NON-SEPARABLE PHRASAL
BEFORE THE PARTICLE) VERBS

EXAMPLE: THROW AWAY EXAMPLE: SEE (something) EXAMPLE: COME ACROSS
“Did you throw away my new THROUGH – meaning – finish (something)
pyjamas?” OR until the end “I came across a great new
“Did you throw my new “I had to see this contract website yesterday”
pyjamas away?” through until the end”
UNIT 1 – PAGE 6
BRING BACK sth / BRING sth RING sb BACK EAT OUT (in a restaurant)
BACK “I’ll ring the doctor back after “We decided to eat out last
“This photo brings back happy my lesson” night”
memories”
ASK OUT sb / ASK sb OUT MESS sb ABOUT LOOK AFTER sb/sth
“I asked a beautiful girl out “He keeps messing me about “I have to look after my
when I was just 10 years old” by cancelling at the last nephew at the weekend”
minute”
DROP OFF sb/sth / DROP INVITE sb OUT (to go out sth/sb TURN UP
sb/sth off somewhere, e.g. to town) “The goods haven’t turned up
“ I dropped the package off “My brother invited his yet”
this morning” girlfriend out last night”
SEND OFF INVITE sb IN (ask sb to enter COME ACROSS
“I sent off the order last week” your home when you have (sth/object/situation)
answered the door) “I’ve come across a fascinating
“Invite him in then!” book and can’t put it down”
ASK AROUND (friends/guests) INVITE sb OVER (invite sb to TAKE DOWN (write something
“We asked some friends visit your place) down)
around to watch a film” “Milorad invited me over last “I’ve taken down his address
night” for you”
BRING UP (a topic/matter for INVITE sb ROUND (invite sb to PLAY UP (not working
discussion) your home for dinner or a properly)
“I brought up this problem at drink) “My laptop is playing up”
the last meeting” “She invited me round last
night for a glass of wine”
SORT OUT INVITE sb UP (invite sb to BREAK DOWN (stop
“He’s sorted the problem out” come upstairs to your flat functioning completely)
when they are waiting outside “My car broke down this
or downstairs) morning on the M1”
“Mark invited me up”
PUT OFF (postpone) INVITE sb ALONG (ask sb to go GET ON (enter a bus)
“He’s put off the meeting until somewhere with you) “She didn’t get on the bus
Thursday” “Let’s invite Andrew along. because she was drunk”
He’s feeling a bit down”
CALL OFF (cancel) INVITE sb BACK (to sb to come COME ROUND (visit sb’s
“He’s called the meeting off home with you) home)
altogether” “I invited her back, but she “Would you like to come
was feeling a little tired” round this evening?”
GIVE IN (hand something to THINK sth OVER (carefully GET OVER (recover from)
someone official) about a decision) “It took him weeks to get over
“I gave my essay in yesterday” “Think It over before you make his illness”
up your mind”
CUT OFF (make sth HAVE sth ON (have an KEEP ON (persist)
inaccessible) arrangement to do sth – never “English is difficult, but you
“The heavy snow blocked the in continuous tense) must keep on trying”
roads and cut off the farm” “I have three important
meetings on tomorrow”
PICK UP (someone = collect at HAVE sb ON (persuade FALL FOR (believe)
a place) somebody that something is “Like a fool, I fell for his story
“I can pick you up at 9am” true when it’s not, as a joke about having lost all his
“Austria hasn’t gone bankrupt. money”
John’s having you on!”
TURN OFF (an electrical MAKE OUT (understand)
device, switch off) “I couldn’t make out what he
“Please turn the TV off” was saying with all the noise”
BRUSH ASIDE (ignore) GO DOWN (decrease)
“He just brushed my complaint “The number of people in the
aside; it made me very angry” UK who smoke has gone down
dramatically”
CHASE UP (pursue, find out SEE TO (organise)
what has happened to sth) “Please see to lunch for our
“I must chase my flatmate up visitors.
about those bills and see if
she paid them.
LEAVE OUT (omit) PULL OVER (move to the side
“I've made a list of names - of the road)
I hope I haven't left anyone “It’s raining too hard to drive.
out” We’d better pull over to the
side of the road”
PUT OUT (issue/publish) LOOK OVER (check , examine)
“The government has put out “Look over your answers
a statement condemning the before the end of the exam”
recent protests”
HAVE ON (wear)
“He has a really elegant suit on
today”

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