40 Common Phrasal Verbs List
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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.
1.Clear sb off
2.Clear up
3.Check off
4.Knock off
5.Knock back
6.Knock up
7.Check in
8.Touch down
9.Hold up
10.Set off
11.Stop over
12.Get away
13.Keep from
14.Keep in
15.Keep off
16.Keep away
17.Make after
18.Make up
19.Make out
20.Make up for
21.Read back
22.Read up on sth
23.Read over
24.Read through
25.Look ahead
26.Look after
27.Look round
28.Look on
29.Look forward to
30.Look in
31.Take over
32.Take away
33.Take in
34.Take down
35.Cut back
36.Cut in
37.Cut into
38.Cut across
39.Cut through
40.Cut up
