Phrasal Verbs

What is a Phrasal Verb?

Often called multi-word verbs

Phrasal Verbs are often used in informal language, so you can use them when you chat with your friends or in another daily conversation.

These are vebs that consist of ✌️, or sometimes three, words. The first word is a verb and it is followed by an adverb or a preposition or both. These advebrs are sometimes called particles.

The meaning of some phrasal verbs is easy to guess because the verb and the particle keep their usual meaning. However many phrasal verbs have idiomatic meanings that we have to learn.
For example:
-  Please, sit down. 💺
    →     sit down    =   sit    =    to lower your body into a sitting position.
-  I can´t  put up with his behaviour. He always cheeses me off. 😠
    →     put up with    =    to tolerate.

They could be transitive or intrasitive.
If a phrasal verb should be followed by an object pronoun, this is called transitive. But if the phrasal verb don´t use an object pronoun, it is named intransitive.
For instance:
-  Don´t give up! You can do it. 😃
    →     give up    =    to stop trying to do sth.
 -  Lucy always comes up with good ideas. 💭💡
    →     come up with    =    to find or produce an answer, idea, etc.


 I hope you understand what are phrasal verbs. If you don´t, let me know to explain this lesson in detail to you.

I´ll post more of them the next week. 😃