PHRASAL VERBS

PHRASAL VERBS
Phrasal verbs são expressões compostas por mais de
uma palavra, sendo geralmente:
VERB + PREPOSITION
VERB + ADVERB
 Bring up
Mention. Introduce a topic into a conversation or discussion.

Ex: They didn't bring the subject up at the meeting

Raise a child

Ex: My parents brought me up strictly

 Carry on

Continue

Ex: CARRY ON quietly with

your work until the substitute
teacher arrives.

Behave badly

Ex: The children annoyed me

by CARRYING ON all morning.
 Cut down
Consume less

Ex: I'm trying to CUT DOWN the amount of coffee I drink during the day.

Shoot

Ex: A lot of soldiers were CUT DOWN by enemy fire as they stormed the airport.

Reduce a vertical thing to

ground level by cutting

Ex: The logger CUT the tree

DOWN.

Cut something from a high

position

Ex: After Christmas he didn't

carefully detach all the
decorations, he just CUT them all
DOWN.
 Drop out
Quit an organized activity

Ex: Yuri isn't on the team anymore. He dropped out.

 Fall out with
Have an argument with

Ex: I had a falling out with my sister last month and we haven't talked to each other
since.
 Fill in
Complete a form

Ex: I FILLED IN the application form and posted it off.

Substitute someone at work

Ex: She's just had a baby, so we have hired someone to FILL IN for her.
 Get on with
Have a good relationship

Ex: Fortunately, I GET ON WITH my boss.

Continue or start doing something

Ex: She told us to GET ON WITH our work.

 Get over
Recover (a cold, a disease, an ex boy/girl friend)

Ex: Jennifer hasn't gotten over her breakup with Peter

 Give up
Stop doing something that has been a habit

Ex: I GAVE UP taking sugar in tea and coffee to lose weight.

Stop being friendly, end

relationships

Ex: She GAVE UP all her

school friends when she went
to university.

Stop doing something

Ex: I have GIVEN UP trying to

help them.
 Go through
Experience something bad

Ex: You wouldn't believe what I went through when I was ill!
Read again

Ex: I went through my notes before the exam.

THIS PHRASAL VERB HAS SEVERAL

MEANINGS!
 Grow up
Mature, become adult

Ex: He GREW UP in the West Country.

Arise, emerge

Ex: The industry GREW UP very quickly.

Develop in a place or for a reason (city, town, etc)

Ex: The town GREW UP as a trading post.

 Look after
Take care

Ex: Their auntie LOOKED AFTER them while their mother was in hospital.
 Make up
Put on cosmetics

Ex: It takes me 10 minutes to make my face up.

Invent (a story)

Ex: Don't believe anything she says. She always makes things up.
 Pick up
To lift an object with the hands

Ex: Pick up your pen and write

please.
Come and get someone in a car

Ex: What time are you going to pick

me up?
 Put off
Postpone

Ex: Don't put off your work, do it now!

 Put on
Start wearing

Ex: I PUT my coat ON before we went

out.

Get fat

Ex: He's PUT ON a lot of weight since

he gave up smoking.

Deceive, lie

Ex: I am not PUTTING you ON.

 Put out
Broadcast

Ex: Several charities put out an appeal on TV for money for the victims of the
flooding in Mozambique.
Extinguish a cigarette, a fire, etc ...

Ex: He put out his cigarette before entering the building.

Disturb or trouble someone

Ex: Would it be putting you out greatly if I asked to change to another day?
 Show up
Attend something or arrive somewhere

Ex: Very few showed up at the meeting

Become clear or apparent

Ex: The downturn in sales showed up in the company accounts.

 Start off
Make something start

Ex: They STARTED OFF the meeting with an attack on our performance.

Begin life, a career or existence

Ex: She STARTED OFF as a receptionist with a lot of enthusiasm.

Begin a journey

Ex: We STARTED OFF early because we knew the journey would take all day.
Take ....
 Take over
Assume control of a company or organisation

Ex: The bank was taken over by a Hong Kong bank that needed to get into the
British Market.
Start a job or position that someone had occupied before you

Ex: You've been driving for hours, do you want me to take over for a while?
 Take after
Look like, resemble

Ex: He takes after his mother

 Turn down
Reduce volume, temperature, etc...

Ex: The room was hot so she turned the heating down

Reject an offer, an invitation, etc ...

Ex: They offered her the job but she turned it down.

Fold the top covers of a bed down to make it ready for someone to go to sleep

Ex: The hotel stuff turned down the bed and scattered flower petals on it while she
was having dinner.
 Turn up
Find unexpectly

Ex: My keys turned up in the bedroom

Increase volume or intensity of a radio, a TV, or other machines

Ex: Turn up the TV, I can't hear what they're saying.