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PHRASAL VERBS EXPLAINED
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The Phrasal Verb 'Call In' explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'call in' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Sep 24, 20238 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Come Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'come up' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Sep 22, 202311 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Pass Out' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'pass out' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Sep 15, 20236 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Show Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'show up' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Sep 8, 20238 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Take On' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'take on' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Sep 1, 202312 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Go Off' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'go off' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Aug 25, 202310 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Check Out' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'check out' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Aug 18, 20239 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Carry Out' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'carry out' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Aug 11, 20236 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Look Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'look up' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context...
Aug 4, 20237 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Set Out' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'set out' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my blog all about English phrasal verbs. Each week, I take a different phrasal verb and look at how it is used by native speakers, with a focus on the different meanings that it has and the expressions and idioms that it is used in. The theme of this post is 'set out', which is a phrasal verb that includes th
Jul 28, 20238 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Put On' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'put on' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my blog all about English phrasal verbs. Each week, I take a different phrasal verb and look at how it is used by native speakers, with a focus on the different meanings that it has and the expressions and idioms that it is used in. The phrasal verb 'put on' is an extremely common and diversely used phrasal ve
Jul 21, 20239 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Play Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'play up' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my blog all about English phrasal verbs. Each week, I take a different phrasal verb and look at how it is used by native speakers, with a focus on the different meanings that it has and the expressions and idioms that it is used in. This post is all about the phrasal verb 'play up' and its different meanings
Jul 14, 20238 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Get By' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'get by' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my blog all about English phrasal verbs. Each week, I take a different phrasal verb and look at how it is used by native speakers, with a focus on the different meanings that it has and the expressions and idioms that it is used in. This week's post is another phrasal verb featuring the ever-popular verb 'to g
Jul 7, 20237 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Make Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'make up' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context. Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. This article is all about the phrasal verb 'make up', which is definitely one that you will have come across before as it is super common. It may be that you are alread
Jun 30, 202311 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Come Over' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'come over' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. This week it is the turn of the phrasal verb 'come over', which is a fairly common phrasal verb that shares some of its meanings with the common phrasal verb 'come acr
Jun 23, 20239 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Turn Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'turn up' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo : Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. The subject of this post is the phrasal verb 'turn up'. I have recently done a post about its phrasal verb opposite, 'turn down', so if you can remember the different
Jun 16, 202312 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'See Through' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'see through' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. In this post, we are looking at the phrasal verb 'see through', which may seem like quite a straightforward phrasal verb, but in fact it has some interesting uses th
Jun 9, 20238 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Get Out' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'get out' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. Today we are looking at another phrasal verb with the extremely common verb 'to get', namely 'get out'. It is likely that you are already familiar with this phrasal verb
Jun 2, 202315 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Bring Up' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'bring up' from a native speaker, with lots of example sentences Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. This post is all about the phrasal verb 'bring up', which has very varied and diverse meanings, especially compared to some of the recent phrasal verbs that I have covere
May 26, 202311 min read


The Phrasal Verb 'Look At' Explained
An explanation of the different meanings of the English phrasal verb 'look at' from a native speaker, with lots of examples in context Photo: Pexels Hello and welcome to my website for English learners all about phrasal verbs where I explain their different meanings to help you understand, learn and use them. The focus of this post is the phrasal verb 'to look at', which is one that I find that I use a LOT on this blog and so I thought it would be a good idea to give it its o
May 19, 20239 min read
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