Syntax 1

Verbs Chapter 5

Multi-Word Verbs

Classify the multi-word verbs in the following examples;

1 I must have nodded off during the lecture; - phrasal

2) Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought

about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the

books. A man had to think them up, A man had to take a long time to put them down on

paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before. – both phrasal

3) She went away again. - Free combination with adv.

4) Turn off the TV and come to dinner. – free combination with PP

5) He's been sponging off his family for years, - prepositional verb

6) Martha simply dotes on her grandchildren. - prepositional

7) And then he shut up, for he remembered last week and the two white stones staring up at

the ceiling – phrasal, free combination with PP

8) They could not touch through the glass, - free comb. With adv.

9) He likens the Nineties to the Sixties, - prepositional

10) I'll let you in on it. - prepositional

11) The bomb went off in a crowded marketplace. - phrasal

12) Montag made sure the book was well hidden behind the pillow, climbed slowly back into

bed (...) – free comb. With PP, free comb. With adv.

13) Why don't you sleep on it and let me know tomorrow.- prepositional

14) Advertising aimed at children puts a lot of pressure on parents - prepositional

15) Would you run oVer the sequence of events again - prepositional

16 Following the rains, the river ran over its banks.- phrasal

17) Our cat was run over by a car, - phrasal

18) Cucumber always repeats on me. - prepositional

19) The handle of the mug broke off - phrasal

20) The rain didn't deter people from coming to the game. - prepositional

21) My parents put me off the idea of religion for ever. - prepositional
22) Stand back please and let the ambulance through! - phrasal

23) You're going to buy it without trying it on? - phrasal verb

24) The electric thimble moved like a praying mantis on the pillow (.) - fre combination

25) Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.-phrasal_verb

26) don't go in for golf much - phrasal

27) He listened and his wife was singing under her breath, - free combination with PP

28) There's a Phoenix car just driven up and a man in a black shirt with an orange snake

stitched on his arm coming up the front walk. – free comb. with PP, free comb. with PP

29) They need to wake up to the fact that the sport has completely changed. – phrasal – prep.

30) She puked up during class today, -phrasal

31) Aunt Mimi saw us off at the station. - phrasal

32) An original Van Gogh turned up in a junk shop in a Parisian backstreet. - phrasal

33) She walked to the bathroom again, - free combination with PP

34) You should probably hand on the information. - phrasal verb

35) Army command has decided to pull back the troops. – phrasal

36) I'd already crossed several items off the list. - prep .

37) She went out of the room (.) – free comb. With adv.

38) She's always droning on about her boyfriend. -phrasal – prep.

40) Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you

follow me? - phrasal

41) She usually calls in at her grandmother's on Friday evenings. – phrasal verb

42) Mildred, do you know that girl I was telling you abour? – prep.l verb

43) I went to Helen's last night, -free combination with PP

44) He's always mouthing off about the state of the roads, - phrasal-prep.

45) Media attention on the Balkans was revving up in America, -phrasal

46) They lay there in the dark room not moving, either of them. -free comb. Wizh adv.

47) Did you carry out all my instructions? - phrasal

48) It seemed that all his friends had turned on him. - prep.

49) Most people wouldn't know it from real champagne: - phrasal

50) You were going to call for a night off. – prep.

51) The project had come up against new govemment regulations,- phrasal- prep.
52) He called down vengeance on those who had wronged them.- phrasal-prep.

53) Remember me to your parents. – prep.

54) Soldiers are now watching over the village. -prep.

55) She wondered whether to call in on Mark on the way home.- phrasal-prep.

56) More than once. he walked in on them kissing. – phrasal-prep.

57) He turned away. – free comb with adv.

58) Could you turn on the lamp? -phrasal verb

59) I'll be in at ten o'clock tonight. - free comb. With adv.

60) (..) and then I came along in two minutes and boom! Its all over.-free comb. With adv.

61) The bus driver waited until we had got on. - phrasal

62) The company laid off 700 workers. - phrasal

63) We've finally hit on a solution that we think will work. – prep.

64) The committee will look into the allegations. -prep.

65) He gobbled down his lunch and left, - phrasal

66) It's a strange taste - it reminds me of melons – prep.

67) Once we were alone, she laid into me. - phrasal verb

68) Sorry I'm late - the meeting ran over. -phrasal verb

69) He had sworn me to secrecy about his new job.- prepositional

70) Hang on - the road gets bumpy here.-phrasal

71) She needs to Face up to the fact that he's not coming back.- phrasal

72) He reached over and pulled one of the tiny musical insects out of her car. – free comb. With adv.,
phrasal-prep.

73) Will he measure up to the challenges that lie ahead him. – phrasal, phrasal

74) Whenever i call he puts the phone down at me. – phrasal-prep.

75) I've put my name down for the trip to Paris. - phrasal

76)I'll make it up to you,-phrasal – prep.

79) Come over and watch the game with me. – free comb. With ad., free comb.

80) (:.) when she came to she had no recolleetion of doing it. -phrasal

81) She certainly lived up to her reputation as a controversial speaker. -phrasal

(82) My teachers are always pulling me up on my spelling. - phrasal

83) I managed to palm off all my old college books on my little sister. - phrasal verb