Phrasal Verbs

up. The snowstorm held them up. 3. Don’t let out the dog. Don’t let the dog
out. Don’t let it out. 4. The real estate agent pointed out the swimming pool.
The real estate agent pointed the swimming pool out. The real estate agent
pointed it out. 5. The truck ran over the man. The truck ran the man over.
The truck ran him over. 6. I’m going to take apart the broken doorknob.
I’m going to take the broken doorknob apart. I’m going to take it apart. 7.
The tailor took in the pants. The tailor took the pants in. The tailor took
them in.
7-3 1. You’re going to see about changing to a different room. 2. They haven’t
held up. 3. She’s going to take them in. 4. He was taken in by the salesman.
5. I was run over by a car. 6. He pointed them out. 7. It held up the game. 8.
She’s cutting a piece of paper up. 9. They’re holding it up. 10. He held it
up. 11. There was a holdup. 12. You took it in. 13. He took it apart. 14. It
ran over. 15. They took you in. 16. He let it out. 17. You ran over and
grabbed it. 18. She let out a scream. 19. It has held up. 20. He let them out.
21. He took it in. 22. It’s running over. 23. You’re letting them out.
7-4 1. go through with 2. come off 3. got out of 4. get around to 5. monkeying
around with 6. boil down to 7. figure out 8. put . . . on 9. went after 10.
gone back on 11. came up with 12. looking forward to 13. dozed off 14.
came down with
8-1 1. fallen over 2. burned out 3. fought back 4. tear down 5. work in 6. pick
out 7. picked out 8. burn . . . out 9. pigged out 10. mess around 11. fell . . .
over 12. burned out 13. messes around 14. fight back
8-2 1. The sheriff burned out the escaped convicts. The sheriff burned the
escaped convicts out. The sheriff burned them out. 2. Bill has picked out a
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new car. Bill has picked a new car out. Bill has picked it out. 3. The new
owners have torn down the garage. The new owners have torn the garage
down. The new owners have torn it down. 4. The mayor tried to work in a
tour of the factory. The mayor tried to work a tour of the factory in. The
mayor tried to work it in.
8-3 1. He shouldn’t have messed around with it. 2. It’s burned itself out. 3. She
pigged out. 4. They’ve picked it out. 5. She couldn’t fight back the tears. 6.
It burned out. 7. It’s burned-out. 8. They fell over. 9. It was burned-out. 10.
It’s burned out. 11. You didn’t fight back. 12. You’ve worked it in. 13. You
asked him if he’s ever heard of the new seafood restaurant in the mall. 14.
They’ve torn it down. 15. He fell all over himself.
8-4 1. took . . . apart 2. pull through 3. shown up 4. ran over 5. taken in 6. fall
for 7. cut . . . up 8. held up 9. pointed out 10. looked . . . up 11. let . . . out
12. gave in 13. get . . . over with 14. see about 15. goes in for 16. put up
with
9-1 1. give up 2. broke out 3. getting along 4. work up 5. gave . . . up 6. catch up
7. hang up 8. worked up 9. catch up 10. get along 11. gave up 12. hang up
13. chickened out 14. hook up 15. catch up 16. broken out 17. hook up
9-2 1. on 2. to 3. on 4. of 5. with 6. with 7. of 8. to 9. on
9-3 1. Tonight I’m going to try to hook up my DVR. Tonight I’m going to try to
hook my DVR up. Tonight I’m going to try to hook it up. 2. After my
accident, I had to give up scuba diving. After my accident, I had to give
scuba diving up. After my accident, I had to give it up. 3. You can hang up
your coat in the closet. You can hang your coat up in the closet. You can
hang it up in the closet.
9-4 1. You want to catch up. 2. She has to give it up. 3. She needs to catch up. 4.
I was worked up. 5. Hooking up a computer to a printer is easy. 6. It’s
hooked up. 7. They’re going to try to break out. 8. It would be called a
breakout. 9. They don’t get along. 10. You gave up on it. 11. Fights break
out. 12. He worked up the courage to ask his boss for a raise. 13. He didn’t
chicken out. 14. They told him to give up. 15. She’s working up to it. 16.
She hung up on him.
9-5 1. messing around 2. piled up 3. put . . . to 4. fallen over 5. looked at 6. pick
. . . out 7. ran into 8. calling for 9. hand . . . back 10. giving off 11. work . . .
in 12. fight back 13. pig out 14. found out 15. torn down 16. burned out
10-1 1. hand . . . out 2. screw . . . up 3. fallen off 4. gave up 5. screwed . . . up 6.
laid off 7. growing up 8. kick back 9. went ahead 10. fill . . . in 11. go ahead
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12. fall off 13. lay off 14. fill . . . in 15. kick back 16. fill in 17. Grow up
10-2 1. grown-ups 2. screwup 3. kickbacks 4. handouts 5. fill-in 6. handout 7.
layoffs 8. falloff 9. go-ahead
10-3 1. You haven’t filled in all the spaces. You haven’t filled all the spaces in.
You haven’t filled them in. 2. Is the teacher handing out the tests? Is the
teacher handing the tests out? Is the teacher handing them out? 3. The
company is going to lay off my brother. The company is going to lay my
brother off. The company is going to lay him off. 4. I’m sorry I screwed up
your plan. I’m sorry I screwed your plan up. I’m sorry I screwed it up.
10-4 1. You went ahead with it. 2. She told you to fill it in. 3. It’s filled in. 4. She’s
screwing it up. 5. It’s screwed up. 6. I kick back $3,000 to the mayor. 7. It’s a
kickback. 8. She was laid off. 9. He screwed you up. 10. You grew up there.
11. It’s for grown-ups. 12. It will fall off. 13. It would be called a falloff. 14.
She told him to lay off. 15. He’s filling in for Omar. 16. They’ll be handed
out. 17. She filled her in.
10-5 1. takeoff 2. breakdown 3. hookup 4. breakout 5. holdup 6. setup 7. put-on
10-6 1. work up 2. gave up 3. pick out 4. hook up 5. get along 6. talk down to 7.
catch up 8. chickened out
11-1 1. cut . . . off 2. back up 3. back up 4. work out 5. backing . . . up 6. cut . . .
off 7. back . . . up 8. follows up 9. drop . . . off 10. backed . . . up 11. wake up
12. work out 13. take out 14. back up 15. worked out 16. works out 17. drops
off 18. cut off 19. taking . . . out 20. back up 21. cut . . . off 22. fell off 23. try
. . . out 24. woke . . . up 25. worked out 26. try out 27. take out 28. worked
out 29. cut off 30. took . . . out 31. taken . . . out
11-2 1. Did you back up your work? Did you back your work up? Did you back it