Phrasal Verbs

on. 12. I ate leftovers. 13. He paid him off. 14. It was a payoff. 15. He tried to
cover them up. 16. It was a cover-up. 17. He brushed her off. 18. He gave her
the brush-off. 19. He said, “Come on.”
37-4 1. put-down 2. breakup 3. get-together 4. grown-ups 5. lockout 6. blowup 7.
lookout 8. giveaway 9. going-over 10. cutouts 11. rundown
37-5 1. hold . . . against 2. narrowed . . . down 3. missed out 4. go by 5. caught on
6. pulled . . . off 7. make of 8. fool around 9. leave . . . behind 10. done away
with 11. pitch in 12. calmed down 13. holding . . . down 14. go down 15. put
. . . down 16. die down
38-1 1. keep from 2. keep . . . to 3. kept . . . up 4. Keep at 5. keeping . . . down 6.
keep off 7. keep to 8. keep up 9. keep . . . away 10. keep up 11. keep up 12.
keep . . . off 13. keep up 14. keep . . . down 15. keep . . . from 16. keep on
17. keep . . . on 18. keep . . . to 19. keep away
38-2 1. He asked you to keep it down. 2. You asked her to keep it to $4,000. 3. You
can’t keep from falling asleep. 4. You have to keep at it. 5. It’s hard to keep
up with the political situation in Washington. 6. She kept on running. 7. I’ve
got to keep away. 8. She thinks he’s keeping something from her. 9. You hope
she can keep it up. 10. You asked him to keep the children away from your
computer. 11. He said it’s important to keep inflation down. 12. He’s kept off
drugs for five years. 13. You can’t keep him from joining the Army. 14. It’s
hard for her to keep up with the other students.
38-4 1. brush . . . off 2. running down 3. fell behind 4. go down 5. backed down 6.
come on 7. hold . . . down 8. Calm down 9. came about 10. goof around 11.
blurts out 12. die down 13. left over 14. lay . . . down 15. hang out 16.
dumbed down
39-1 1. picked up 2. sold out 3. straighten . . . out 4. took over 5. clean . . . up 6.
take over 7. pick up 8. pick . . . up 9. chop up 10. wipe out 11. pick up 12.
taken over 13. filled up 14. pick up 15. filled up 16. straightened out 17. pick
up 18. Wipe . . . out 19. picking . . . up 20. straighten . . . out 21. picked up
22. fill up 23. pick . . . up 24. take . . . over 25. pick up 26. pick up 27. cross .
. . off
39-2 1. Have you chopped up the onions? Have you chopped the onions up? Have
you chopped them up? 2. You can cross off Linda’s name. You can cross
Linda’s name off. You can cross her off. 3. Fill up the aquarium with water.
Fill the aquarium up with water. Fill it up with water. 4. I need to pick up my
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parents at the train station. I need to pick my parents up at the train station. I
need to pick them up at the train station. 5. Can you straighten out this mess?
Can you straighten this mess out? Can you straighten it out? 6. The rebels
took over the royal palace. The rebels took the royal palace over. The rebels
took it over. 7. They wiped out the palace guard. They wiped the palace
guard out. They wiped them out.
39-3 1. It always picks up in the spring. 2. It might be taken over by pirates. 3. It
would be a takeover. 4. She straightened everything out. 5. It’s straightened
out. 6. He was supposed to be picked up. 7. They’ll be wiped out. 8. It ought
to be crossed off. 9. It’ll be crossed off. 10. It sold out of the CDs. 11. They
were sold out. 12. It had sold out. 13. It was chopped up. 14. It has to be