ne ere ie i oO Expressions with do and make The next seven units deal with phrasal verbs and other expressions based on common yeh Phrasal verbs are basic verbs which can combine with different prepositions (or particles) make verbs with completely new - and often unguessable — meanings. Phrasal verbs are ne more in speaking than in writing. There is almost always a more formal way of Conveying. the same idea, In this unit we look at phrasal verbs formed from do and make, - Here are some of the most useful phrasal verbs based on do and make. | phrasal verb meaning example | do with need, want I could do with something to eat, do without manage without ‘We'll have to do without a holiday | this year as money is so short. do away with abolish Slavery was not done away with | until last century. | do out of prevent from He did me out of my rightful inheritance, having (by deceit) make for move in the Let’s make for the city centre and | direction of find a restaurant on the way. | make of think (opinion) What do you make of him? make off leave hurriedly He made off as soon as he heard their car turn into the drive. make up for compensate for The superb food at the hotel made up for the uncomfortable rooms. | make up to be nice to in He made up to her until she | order to get s.t. agreed to help. Some phrasal verbs have a number of different meanings; do up can mean not only ‘fasten’ but also ‘renovate’ and ‘put into a bundle’, Similarly, make out can mean ‘claim’, ‘manage to see’ and ‘understand’ as well as ‘write’ or ‘complete’; make up can mean ‘compose’ or ‘invent’; it can also mean ‘constitute’ or ‘form’, ‘put cosmetics on’, ‘prepare by mixing together various ingredients’ and ‘make something more numerous or complete’. } There are a lot of other common expressions based on do and make. You do: the housework / some gardening / the washing-up / homework / your best / the shopping / the cooking / business with..., and so on. You make: arrangements / an agreement / a suggestion /a decision / a cup of tea / wat! an attempt /a phone call / the best of... / an effort / an excuse / a mistake /a bed! profit /a loss / love / the most of / a noise / a good or bad impression / a success of! a point of... / allowances for... /a gesture / a face / fun of... / a fuss of... /a 20 (a success) of..., and so on, The more collocations with do and make you learn, the more you will get a ‘feel’ for the difference between the two verbs. English Vocabulary in UsePe g5-2 85.3 85.4 85.5 85.6 85.7 Exercises are some ferent ways in whic do up, mae te natch p and make out can be used. What is 7 the chemist and she’ a tn prescription tothe chemist and she'll make Take OM ake out the litle grey house on the shore? S_— is made up of many, often conflicting, desires ‘A buman being i, up the newspapers, I'll take them to be recycled, 2 3 4 Ifyou d 4 etic impossible co make Jo out. 5 ie gdverise the ralk inthe hope of making up the numbers abi 6 fe made out that he had never loved anyone else , 2 We're planning to do up our bathroom at the weekend. Ada the necessary prepositions or particles to complete this story. Last weekend we decided to start doing (1) our bedroom. We agreed th could do 1) the old fireplace in the corner. As we began to vembive it from th coll we found some old pictures done {3) in a bundle behind a loose brick ‘ae first we could not make (4) what was in the pictures but we wiped them clean fiw tae they all depicted the same young man. We spent an enjoyable evening making is) stories to explain why the pictures had been hidden. Correct the mistakes in the sentences below. 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