Phrasal Verbs

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Today we are learning a bit more about frasal verbs.

Baixe essa aula em PDF: Lesson #25 – Phrasal Verbs

It’s very important that you know how to recognize and search for the meaning of frasal verbs.

Once you are familiar with its structure and its use, you will be able to add more phrasal verbs  to your vocabular.

Here’s a list of things you need to know about phasal verbs:

– they are very common in English.

– they are NOT a kind of slang or idiomatic expression.. They are considered as common verbs and conjugaded as so.

– they consist of a verb and a particle (sometimes two particles)

– this particle can be a preposition or an adverb

– we MUST NOT look at the meaning of the particle and the verb separately. A phrasal verb is a combination of two words that express one single idea.

Here are some phrasal verbs that I am sure you are already familiar with. Pay attention to the characteristics listed above:

• Get up
• Wake up
• Go out
• Come back
• Look through
• Look up
• Look forward to
• Fill out
• Get in
• Get away
• Give up
• Give away
• Give in

Tá, e agora?

There are thousands of other phrasal verbs and they all have different characteristics (as to the position of the object, whether or not they have an object, the king of object they possess and so on – you can find these characteristics in dictionaries and vocabulary books) and learning them depends a whole lot on being able to identify a phrasal verb when you see one.

Try looking up the meaning of the phrasal verbs we listed in a dictionary and check the examples they provide. Also, make you own list of phrasal verbs. You will find them in songs, books, blogs, articles, movies and so on.

You know the drill: PRACTICE, BITCHES!!!