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Phrasal Verbs: A Breakdown of DOWN

Phrasal Verbs: A Breakdown of DOWN

Back in October last year, I wrote a couple of blogs about phrasal verbs with UP as an example of how you can attack phrasals by focussing on the preposition (or particle), not the verb. I ended by promising to write a similar analysis of DOWN in my next blog, and...
Phrasal Verbs: Catching Up

Phrasal Verbs: Catching Up

In my last blog, I tried to explain how phrasal verbs enable native English speakers to go into detail about how they go up stairs (we walk up them, run up them or stagger up them drunk). If we move something else to a higher place, we generally just pick it up and...
Phrasal Verbs: Catching Up

Phrasal Verbs: How do you “UP”?

Most of my students like phrasal verbs about as much as they like exercise bikes and try to use them with roughly the same frequency.  Native speakers, on the other hand, find them so easy and flexible that we can invent them spontaneously to serve when we don’t know...

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