Phrasal Verbs Examples
• 'What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.' (Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook. Castle Books, 1981 • ' Put out the light, and then put out the light.' (William Shakespeare, Othello • 'I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies.
By God, I told them the truth.' (Frank Norris, Responsibilities of the Novelist, 1902 • 'Clots of excited children egged each other on, egged on their parents, egged on the blue-haired ladies and the teenage lovers and janitor who put down his mop to play.'
Using Phrasal Verbs. For example, the verb 'to drop' means “to let something fall.” In contrast, as a phrasal verb 'drop in' means “to visit someone without having received an invitation,” whereas 'drop out' means “to stop doing what one usually does.” You will find that many phrasal verbs have more than one meaning.
Phrasal Verbs Examples Literal
Cole, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 • 'Major Major had never played basketball or any other game before, but his great, bobbing height and rapturous enthusiasm helped make up for his innate clumsiness and lack of experience.' (Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961).
Phrasal Verbs Examples Pdf
'[P]hrasal verbs with up have filled a wide variety of roles in both British and American English. Up gets used for literal upward movement ( lift up, stand up) or more figuratively to indicate greater intensity ( stir up, fire up) or completion of an act ( drink up, burn up).