60 Common Phrasal Verbs in English
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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.Turn out
2.Take on
3.Give up
4.Get up
5.Look up
6.Carry on
7.Go up
8.Get out
9.Take out
10.Come down
11.Put down
12.Put up
13.Turn up
14.Get on
15.Bring up
16.Bring in
17.Look back
18.Look down
19.Bring back
20.Break down
21.Take off
22.Go off
23.Bring about
24.Go in
25.Set off
26.Put out
27.Look out
28.Take back
29.Hold up
30.Go round
31.Break up
32.Come along
33.Sit up
34.Turn round
35.Get in
36.Come round
37.Make out
38.Get off
39.Turn down
40.Bring down
41.Come over
42.Break out
43.Go over
44.Turn over
45.Go through
46.Hold on
47.Pick out
48.Sit back
49.Hold back
50.Put in
51.Move in
52.Look around
53.Take down
54.Put off
55.Come about
56.Come through
57.Move back
58.Break off
59.Get through
60.Give out
