Phrasal Verbs with Clean, 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.
Clean sth out
Meaning: to remove sth from or away from a place and clean it
Example Sentence: We’d better clean out the attic this week.
Clean sth up
Meaning: to make sth/somewhere clean
Example Sentence: Clean up the room immediately.
Clean sth out
Meaning: to take or steal money or goods of sb
Example Sentence: Gambling has cleaned them out.
Clean sth up
Meaning: to make yourself clean
Example Sentence: I cleaned myself up before the breakfast.
Clean up after sb
Meaning: to remove dirt that sb has made
Example Sentence: He always expects other people to clean up after him
Clean sth up
Meaning: to win a lot of money
Example Sentence: They cleaned up at this bank.
