Most Common Phrasal Verbs, Meaning and Example Sentences

Most Common Phrasal Verbs, Meaning and Example Sentences

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.

Check off	Make a mark next to	Check each name off the list.
Read off	Read aloud from a list	I read the number off the cargo.
Pass out	Become unconscious	He passed out because the room was too hot.
Carry on	Continue	Carry on. I didn’t mean to interrupt you.
Make for	Move towards	He already made for home when I arrived.
Run over	Read through or  practice something quickly	He ran over his notes before going the home.
Keep to	Persist in, Continue	He kept to puzzle until it was done.
Check back	Return to see if everything is Ok	They will check back next week to make sure the report.

Let on	Make clear, evince	You don’t want to let on how rich you really are.
Keep in	Not allow Someone out.	Children were kept in after school.
Hold on	To wait particularly on the phone	They’ll hold on another minute, then They’ll have to go.
Break into	Interrupt (a conversation)	Samuel break into the conversation and told us.
Give forth	Emit or release something	The roses give forth a very heady scent at this time of the year.
Bring back	Fetch something	Should I bring the car back with a empty tank?
Look back	To think about something that happened in the past	When I look back, I’m filled with happiness.
Let down	Lengthen	My father is a tailor, so he can let my pants down.
Do over	Repeat	My friend made many mistakes, so I want to do the report over.