phrasal verb exercise

phrasal verb with up

1. Jane and I want to give up smoking.
2. Could you wake me up at 6 o'clock?
3. We must hurry up or we will miss the bus.
4. Can you pick me up at the station?
5. In many countries, the pupils have to stand up when the teacher enters the class-room.
6. I usually have to get up at half past six.
7. I must tidy up my room today.

phrasal verb review

find out	discover	They found out new machine to launch in the market prior to their competitors.
get on with	connect on the phone	Could you get on with Mr John?
hold on	wait	Hold on, i will call him back immediately.
get away	escape	He have just got away from the police in several second.
take after	inherit characteristic, to be similar to an older member of your family in appearance or character	He takes after his father's appearance.
cut down	reduce	The interest rate has been cutting down for 3 times this year.
look after	care for	He looks after her as his brother although he is not hers in law.
come up with	think of a solution	We are coming up with the problem which has made our profit loss recently.
add up	make sense to have a particular result or effect	Their proposals do not add up to any real help for the poor.
put through	connect on the phone	Could you put me through to secretary of Mr.A?
look for	search	I am looking for a new job connected to my subject.
get over	recover from	Do you get over the shock of that accident?
turn up	arrive	I want to turn up Switzerland before it integrates the EU this year.
put off	postpone	The meeting is put off due to the absence of head manager.

Grammar: Verb pattern

After receiving my test's result today (34/60), i found that my grammar is a little bit weak, especially in verb pattern and filling the gap in a small paragraph. Some vocabularies i don't know how to use them in particular situation although i know the meaning of those words.

Here is my studying from that test:

Verb pattern:

- encourage someone to do something

- consider doing something

- advoid someone / doing something

- warn someone that

- insist on someone doing something / insist that

- threaten to do something

Expression/ unfimiliar verb/ useful phrase:

- to be over: finish (the party 's over)

to go over: to study or explain something

As i had missed the history lesson, my friend went over the homework with me.

- to hole up=support

The decorated roof of the ancient palace waws held up / supported by4 thin columns.

- their intake of vitamins

- where his best interets lay

- get over the shock of

- As the game drew to a close, disappointed spectators started to leave.

- to meet with much success

- The new college caters for the needs of students with a variety learning backgrounds

- economics (n) subject

economic perspective (a): connected to the subject

economical perspective (a): cheap

phrasal verb

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/630/01/
(phrasal verb)

• drop off - decline gradually

  The hill dropped off near the river

• drop off(2) - fall asleep

  While doing his homework, he dropped off.

• drop off(3) - stop and give something to someone

  Would you drop this off at the post office?

• drop out - cease to participate

  After two laps, the runner dropped out.

• Separable
  add up (meaning: to add)

  Correct: She added up the total on her calculator.
  Incorrect: She added it up on her calculator.

• Inseparable
  get around (meaning: to evade)

  Correct: She always gets around the rules.
  Incorrect: She always gets the rules around (This construction makes no sense in English.)

• Intransitive
  catch on (meaning: to understand)

  Correct: After I explained the math problem, she began to catch on.
  Incorrect: She began to catch on the math problem. (catch on cannot take a direct object in this meaning.)
  Correct: She began to catch on to the math problem. (the word to makes the math problem an indirect object, which is acceptable in this meaning.)