Phrasal Verbs with Clear, Meanings and Example Sentences
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Phrasal Verbs
It is generally used with a verb, an adverb, or a preposition. An adverb or preposition added to the main verb changes the meaning of the actual verb, giving it a different meaning. Since it has a different meaning, it becomes an idiomatic verb. For example, if the preposition “up” is added to the verb “give”, we get the idiomatic verb “Give up” and it gains a new meaning regardless of the meaning of the two words that make it up.
Phrasal Verbs are divided into two as “separable” and “inseparable”.
Separable Phrasal Verbs
If a phrasal verb is separable, we can place the object between the main verb and the preposition or add it to the end of the phrasal verb phrase without separating it at all.
Inseparable Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verb type that cannot be placed in the middle of the phrasal verb phrase of the object of the sentence, therefore, must be used side by side and cannot be divided, is called “Inseparable phrasal verbs”. As an example, let’s use the phrasal verb “come across”, which is a combination of the words “come” and “across”, in a few sentences.
Clear away
Meaning: to take away sth to clear a place
Example Sentence: You should clear away all your toys before bedtime.
Clear out (of)
Meaning: to leave a place
Example Sentence: She’ll clear out of the house in two weeks.
Clear sb off
Meaning: to make sb go away from a place
Example Sentence: The police’ll use dogs to clear the protesters off the road.
Clear up
Meaning: to solve or explain
Example Sentence: I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
Clear off
Meaning: to go away
Example Sentence: The mist will clear off very soon.
