Phrasal Verbs with Put, Meanings and Example Sentences in English

Phrasal Verbs with Put, Meanings and Example Sentences in English

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.

Put away

Meaning:

to clean up, to tidy

Example Sentence:

Put away any valuable or breakable objects.

 

Put across

Meaning:

to explain sth clearly

Example Sentence:

He was trying to put across a serious point.

 

Put by

Meaning:

to save monet

Example Sentence:

Try to put by a little bit each week

 

Put through

Meaning:

to connect sb by phone

Example Sentence:

He asked to be put through to Charley Lunn.

 

Put in

Meaning:

to apply for sth

Example Sentence:

I decided to put in for a job as deputy secretary.

 

Put out

Meaning:

to stop burning

Example Sentence:

It took two hours to put out the fire