Phrasal verbs represent a practically limitless group of verbs that can be combined with short adverbs or prepositions to produce new meanings. Here are some examples: Phrasal verbs are ubiquitous in ...

Last week’s column examined a number of phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs, of necessity, are made up of two words; a verb and an adverb or preposition. Phrasal verbs are categorised as separable, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Learners' Questions in Session 4, Dan looks at phrasal verbs with the word pop. Here's a guide to phrasal verbs. Multi-word verbs / Phrasal verbs type 1, 2, 3 & 4 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Go off has a few meanings. It can mean to leave a place. They had to go off for dinner. It can mean to suddenly start making noise. Did you hear the alarm go off this morning? It can be used when a ...

Present continuous and 'going to' The zero and first conditionals Modals of deduction and speculation The past perfect Adjectives and adverbs The third conditional Linking devices: cause and effect ...

What's the difference between back up, back down and back off? In this lesson, we explore some commonly used phrasal verbs with back in them. When you want to copy over all your files from your laptop ...