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 ...

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 ...

Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word like 'wake up' and 'look forward to'. There are hundreds of them in English and they can be quite tricky... But don't freak out! Georgie is going to ...

Don't put off learning some phrasal verbs with put. We explain more in this lesson. To put someone down can mean to insult someone or say they are bad. They always put their brother down. I don't know ...

Here are some phrasal verbs with the word ‘around’. Let's learn how to you can use them in everyday English. To ‘fly around’ is to do something quickly. I didn’t have much time, so I flew around the ...