Phrasal Verbs

with blue. 15. It’s going to blow away the competition. 16. He’s going to
come through town. 17. It’s going to dry up. 18. It’ll be dried up.
15-4 1. came up 2. fell through 3. light . . . up 4. put up 5. track down 6. lit up 7.
closed off 8. screw . . . on 9. call . . . off 10. back off 11. hand in 12. left . . .
off 13. sign in 14. signed out 15. let . . . off 16. came across
16-1 1. thinking about 2. carry . . . on 3. counting on 4. go for 5. acting up 6. get
through 7. count on 8. get through 9. held off 10. put . . . past 11. carried on
12. hold off 13. went for 14. going for 15. carry on 16. get . . . through 17.
act up 18. carry on 19. count on 20. get through 21. goes for 22. get through
16-2 1. She goes for it. 2. She didn’t get through studying until 11:00 
P.M.
3. They
carried them on. 4. They kept carry-on bags with them. 5. She’s thinking
about spending the summer in Bolivia. 6. It’s acting up again. 7. He couldn’t
carry on his career as a dancer. 8. You held off having children. 9. I wouldn’t
put stealing past him. 10. She’s going to try to get through to her. 11. I can’t
count on him. 12. He carried on. 13. You can’t count on it. 14. You told her
to stop acting up in school.
16-4 1. stuck-up 2. fixed up 3. used up 4. put away 5. wound up 6. wrapped up 7.
filled out 8. dried up 9. dressed up 10. screwed on 11. closed off 12. lit up
13. built up 14. ironed out
16-5 1. wound up 2. goes in for 3. put up with 4. looking forward to 5. give up 6.
feel up to 7. see . . . about 8. get around to 9. get out of 10. get . . . over with
11. left off 12. worked out 13. broke down 14. took . . . in 15. put . . . up 16.
broke out 17. butt in
17-1 1. came over 2. falling apart 3. rip . . . up 4. heading/headed into 5. got back
at 6. came over 7. worn down 8. go about 9. grow out of 10. falling apart 11.
wear . . . down 12. fell apart 13. come over 14. grows out of
17-2 (any two of the possible sentences shown are acceptable) 1. Frequently
Ms. Taylor comes over. Ms. Taylor frequently comes over. Ms. Taylor comes
over frequently. 2.Sometimes these cheap toys fall apart. These cheap toys
sometimes fall apart. These cheap toys fall apart sometimes. 3. Nervously
he went about making the bomb. He nervouslywent about making the bomb.
He went about making the bomb nervously. 4. Eventually Sally will grow
out of her childish behavior. Sally will eventually grow out of her childish
behavior. Sally will grow out of her childish behavior eventually. 5.
Reluctantly Jim headed into the swamp. Jim reluctantly headed into the
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swamp. Jim headed reluctantlyinto the swamp. Jim headed into the swamp
reluctantly. 6. Suddenly Pat ripped up Mike’s letter. Pat suddenly ripped up
Mike’s letter. Pat ripped up Mike’s lettersuddenly. 7. Soon Frank will get
back at Todd. Frank will soon get back at Todd. Frank will get back at Todd
soon. 8. Gradually he wore down my resistance. He graduallywore down my
resistance. He wore down my resistance gradually.
17-3 1. It was ripped up. 2. It was ripped up. 3. It’s falling apart. 4. They came
over. 5. He doesn’t know how to go about applying for a mortgage. 6. We’re
going to head into the city. 7. She grew out of it. 8. They’ve worn down. 9.
They’re worn down. 10. He’s gotten back at you. 11. They came over before
Columbus. 12. She came over and looked at my paper. 13. He fell apart. 14.
She’ll grow out of it soon. 15. It’s falling apart. 16. They’re trying to wear
her down.
17-4 1. find out 2. get along 3. go through with 4. chickened out of 5. set up 6.
work in 7. fight back 8. came down with 9. monkey around with 10. kicking
back 11. mess around 12. boils down to 13. come up 14. fell over 15. go
ahead
18-1 1. get off 2. break through 3. tell . . . apart 4. get off 5. line up 6. sucks up to
7. push . . . around 8. get . . . off 9. figured on 10. get off 11. lined up 12. get
. . . off 13. broke through 14. Get off 15. fizzle out 16. get off 17. line up 18.
Get off
18-2 1. He said he’d get it off the table. 2. You can’t tell them apart. 3. It’s fizzling