Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 3

Unit 7 • Lesson B: Dating

Vocabulary
Relationships
boyfriend (n)
girlfriend (n)
high school sweetheart (n)
long-distance relationship (n)
break up (with someone) (v)
date (someone) (v)
get along (with someone) (v)
go back (to someone) (v)
go out (together) (v)
go out (with someone) (v)
settle down (with someone) (v)
work out (v)

Making and maintaining friendships

get together (with someone) (v)
hang out with (the same crowd) (v)
move away (from / to) (v)
sign up (for a class) (v)

Adverbial expressions
nearby (adv)
together (adv)
within a few months (adv)

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Other verbs
come back (v)
fly back (v)
go away (to college) (v)
graduate (from high school) (v)
write back (v)
move away (from / to) (v)
turn out (v)

Grammar
Phrasal verbs
A phrasal verb is a verb plus a particle like along, away, back, out, up, etc. The verb can have
different forms, but the particle never changes its form:

Steve and Anna grew up in the same town.

They got along well and started going out together.

Remember, some verbs have objects:

Steve liked Anna. (Anna is the object.)

These phrasal verbs don't usually have an object:

grow up get along go out go away fly back work out break up

Anna went away to college.

She flew back home once a month.

Things didn't work out, so they decided to break up.

You can use with + somebody after get along and go out.

Steve and Anna got along well. Steve and Anna went out together.

Steve got along with Anna. Steve went out with Anna.

Anna got along with Steve. Anna went out with Steve.

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