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Ten phrasal verbs in English (with multiple meanings)

This video teaches ten powerful phrasal verbs that each have multiple meanings, depending on context. You’ll learn how to ...
Phrasal verbs, or multi-word verbs, are verbs that are combined with one or two particles (a preposition or an adverb), for ...
Phrasal verbs often have more than one meaning. Also, many verbs combine with several different prepositions. Here are some ...
A FOLLOWER of my Facebook page for Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Maria Fernandez, told me in a post a few weeks ago that she finds phrasal verbs deceiving: “I get confused trying to distinguish them ...
"Turn off the TV" is an example of a phrasal verb, which is a verb that has a base verb and one or two particles. Credit: MikeSleigh/Getty Images A ‘phrasal verb’ is a verb that has a base verb and ...
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Ten Phrasal Verbs That Change Meaning Every Time You Blink

This video explains ten common phrasal verbs that carry multiple meanings. Each example shows how they work in everyday ...
I have a friend who uses “hark back” a lot in conversation. She harks back to past news events. She harks back to old times. She harks back to something I told her last month or last year. My first ...
Enter or enter into — A few days ago, a reader said that President Pranab Mukherjee, while addressing the gathering at the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly has used ...
Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...