Phrasal Verbs: Meaning and Use

Grammar
Vocabulary
Which photo shows running over?
Which photo shows running into?

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run over = hit someone with a vehicle
run into = meet
someone by chance

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Run over and run into are examples of phrasal verbs.
 Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs Meanings

Choose the correct preposition

(particle) off or away?
• We dropped our luggage
off/away at the hotel and
went sightseeing.

• Do you put off/away the

dishes in your home?
 Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs Meanings

• We dropped our luggage

off/away at the hotel and
went sightseeing.

• Do you put off/away the

dishes in your home?
Sometimes you can’t guess the meaning of phrasal
verbs! And we have to learn them by using them!
 Grammar: Separable vs. Inseparable
Which sentence is incorrect?

Separable Inseparable

• Call me after you drop off the kids. • Look after my house.
• Call me after you drop the kids off. • Look my house after.
 When we can put the noun between the verb and the preposition, the
phrasal verb is called separable. When we cannot put the noun between
the verb and the preposition, the phrasal verb is called inseparable.

Separable Inseparable

• Call me after you drop off the kids. • Look after my house.
• Call me after you drop the kids off. • Look my house after.
 Grammar: Separable vs. Inseparable
Which sentence is incorrect?

Separable Inseparable

• Call me after you drop off the kids. • Look after my house.
• Call me after you drop the kids off. • Look my house after.
• Call me after you drop them off. • Look after it
• Call me after you drop off them.
 Note the use of pronouns in separable and inseparable adverbs

Separable Inseparable

• Call me after you drop off the kids. • Look after my house.
• Call me after you drop the kids off. • Look my house after.
• Call me after you drop them off. • Look after it.
• Call me after you drop off them.
Thank
you!