Irregular verbs list 3
Irregular verbs list 3 Present Past Present Perfect Awake Awoke Awoken Bear Bore Borne Bid Bade Bid Bite Bit Bitten Blow Blew Blown Dig Dug Dug Feed Fed Fed Forbid Forbade Forbidden Freeze Froze Frozen Hang Hung Hanged Hanged Hung Hide Hid Hidden Hurt Hurt Hurt Kneel Knelt Kneeled Kneeled Knelt Knit Knit Knitted Knitted Knit Lay Laid Laid Leap Lept Leaped Leaped Lept Lend Lent Lent Lie Lied Lied Light Lit Lit Shake Shook Shaken Shoot Shot Shot Shut Shut Shut Sink Sank Sunk Spell Spelt Spelled Spelled Spelt Steal Stole Stolen Strike Struck Struck Tread Trod Trodden Weep Wept Wept Wet Wet Wetted Wet Wetted Wind Wound...
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Phrasal verbs 1: verbs with prepositions Phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions that combine verbs and prepositions or adverbs ad prepositions.. Also called verb prepositions or prepositional verbs, these constructions typically combine verbs such as: go, come, take, bring, get etc with prepositions such as: into, up, down, away and through etc to describe events. Phrasal verbs often appear in place of the full verb and may provide a similar meaning. For example, typical phrasal verb constructions come down / go down are seen to replace the verbs fall, drop or descend. Children! Could you come down (from your room) for your supper, it’s ready! Ok mum, we’re coming! The Phrasal verb is often more accessible than the full verb. I think the price of potatoes will come down (fall / drop / reduce) again (it was low this time last week). fill in / out – complete (place information into blank spaces) Please fill in / out these forms and let me have them when you’ve finished, thank you. put into – place My advice is to put your money into a savings account. come / get down – descend / fall / drop Tristan, stop bouncing on the bed and get / come down.(from off of the bed). take out – remove / extract Take out your pens and English books, our lesson today is Grammar go up – ascend / rise Sales of toys go up before the holidays and fall after the holidays, why is that? go down – descend / fall I see our shares have gone down / fallen in value again against some of our competitors shares. come in – enter Please come in, sit down, would you like a cup of coffee? take care of – care for (person) / manage Dad, you should take more careof yourself, you aren’t getting any younger. You take care of selling the products, and I’ll take care of buying the stock. get up – rise Get up now, I know you’re tired but we have to get packed as were going on holiday today. take off – remove / leave We got / They took 50% off the price of the flights.Our flight takes off at 10. get on / get off – board / mount / dismount I get on the train at Euston and get off at...
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Phrasal verbs 2: verbs with prepositions Phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions that combine verbs and prepositions or adverbs ad prepositions.. Also called verb prepositions or prepositional verbs, these constructions typically combine verbs such as: go, come, take, bring, get etc with prepositions such as: into, up, down, away and through etc to describe events. Phrasal verbs often appear in place of the full verb and may provide a similar meaning. For example, typical phrasal verb constructions come down / go down are seen to replace the verbs fall, drop or descend. Children! Could you come down (from your room) for your supper, it’s ready! Ok mum, we’re coming! The Phrasal verb is often more accessible than the full verb. Who’s picking your parents up (retrieve) from the airport tonight? You are. Oh! look up – research Look up the word ‘Excellent’ in the dictionary please. What does it mean? find out – research / discover We need to find out if our competitors are better financed than we are. fall over – tumble fall down – descend to lower level It had snowed all night. I fell over on the ice this morning and my car keys fell down a hole. take away – remove Would you mind taking my plate away please. go on – to continue Sorry for the interruption, please go on with what you were saying. Hhold on / hang on – continue to hold / wait (time) Hold on / Hang on, just let me get my coat, I’ll come with you to the station. look for – search / seek My car keys were here, could you help me look for them? Here they are. Thank you. put down – place / pose Thanks for helping me with my shopping young man, you can put it down over there on the table. set up – to establish I am setting up a new company, I set one up last year but it collapsed. come up – unexpected circumstance occurs / find a solution Something has come up at work and I need to come up with a solution, and quickly. deal with – manage a situation We have so many issues to deal with. Which do you think we should deal with first? go down / up (decrease / increase / rise / fall) Sales always go down / up at this time of...
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Phrasal verbs 3: verbs with prepositions Phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions that combine verbs and prepositions or adverbs ad prepositions.. Also called verb prepositions or prepositional verbs, these constructions typically combine verbs such as: go, come, take, bring, get etc with prepositions such as: into, up, down, away and through etc to describe events. Phrasal verbs often appear in place of the full verb and may provide a similar meaning. For example, typical phrasal verb constructions come down / go down are seen to replace the verbs fall, drop or descend. Children! Could you come down (from your room) for your supper, it’s ready! Ok mum, we’re coming! The Phrasal verb is often more accessible than the full verb. Darling, please come in out of the rain and get out of those wet clothes. Quickly, before you catch cold! get into – enter / leave a place or subject I don’t want to get into an argument with you about this, but if we don’t… If I get good exam results I would like to get into a good university such as Oxbridge or Yaleton go ahead – commence planned action / put a plan into action As I see it, all the plans are now in place. We can go ahead and start the company. carry out – execute task We still need to carry out a few tests to make sure that everything works well. come up with – resolve / find a solution What we have to do now is come up with a good name for the product, any ideas? come around – convince I want Erin to move here. I hope she’ll come round to my way of thinking. end up – eventually did We went out for a quiet meal, met some friends, went for a drink and ended up getting home at 3am. figure out – finally understand / deduce We tried to keep Sam’s birthday party a secret, but she figured out what we were doing. The party was great. get through – complete / finish a task I’m so tired and ill, I just have to get through this week of exams and then it’s the holidays. give away – distribute We’re giving away samples of our perfume, hoping that if people like it they’ll buy it. go over – review / examine I want to go over last month’s sales figures. Can we get together tomorrow and do that? go through – review / recap Ok, everyone, let’s go through each of the following steps one by one. pick up – retrieve / acquire I have so much to do this afternoon. I have to pick the kids up from school, pick Tom up from the station and pick up a pizza for supper. I’ll call you later. point out – draw attention to / inform / indicate I feel I need to point out that it’s always difficult branching out into foreign markets without local partners. bring out – make available / display Mark loves his job. Bringing (out) new music to the market brings out the best in his abilities. send to / send out – despatch / distribute You need to send the samples to them ASAP, before they send out the brochures; we’ve got 3 days to do it. take over (business) – acquire / assume (manage) My company takes other companies over, but we don’t take over the running of their operations. take in – absorb / understand / assimilate There was so much damage after the gas explosion it’s difficult to take in what had happened. work out – resolve / calculate I do hope that everything works out for you in your new job. I can’t work out /...
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Phrasal verbs 4: verbs with prepositions Phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions that combine verbs and prepositions or adverbs ad prepositions.. Also called verb prepositions or prepositional verbs, these constructions typically combine verbs such as: go, come, take, bring, get etc with prepositions such as: into, up, down, away and through etc to describe events. Phrasal verbs often appear in place of the full verb and may provide a similar meaning. For example, typical phrasal verb constructions come down / go down are seen to replace the verbs fall, drop or descend. Children! Could you come down (from your room) for your supper, it’s ready! Ok mum, we’re coming! The Phrasal verb is often more accessible than the full verb. From the heart, blood courses through (everywhere within / within and around)the circulatory system (system of veins and arteries) that runs throughout the human body. break down – reduce / divide into parts The best way to revise a subject is to break the subjects down into small parts, it makes study easier. break up – separate / divide into parts Their subsidiaries will be broken up and sold to the highest bidder. We’re interested in their distribution arm. dumb down – over simplify These daysI feel that TV news is dumbed down more and more. I wonder why that is? fend off – defend against We are in a difficult position. I doubt we’ll be able to fend off both takeover bids. get back – return to place or subject We were so happy to get back to dry land after the boat trip, when the storm came up. We were quite scared. get out of – escape from I need to get out of the lease I currently have on this flat. I’ve found a new job and have to move away. go along with – accompany (go) Since you don’t speak French well, I’ll go along with you and see you get the correct train. go with / go along with – choose / agree Of the two options I’ve decided to go with the least expensive one. Ok, I’ll go with / go along with you on that and hope quality won’t be an issue. put off – postpone (event) / deter (person) Is there any chance of getting them to put off the decision until later in the week? I generally like seafood, but on this occasion, the smell put me off. I chose the chicken dish. Try and put your CEO off making any decision until later in the week, we need more time. rule out – decide against As the Markets appear to be rallying, the Board has decided to rule out any further offers for the company in the near future. run into – encounter My parents ran into trouble as soon as they got to the airport when their car broke down. They had more trouble with their luggage. luckily Mum ran into an old friend, who helped them onto their flight. He was their pilot. Sound out – consult I’m going to sound my brother out about starting up a distribution company, he’s got a van. Think through – examine / think over – consider We need to think the decision over, and then think through any contingencies there might be. Turn around – reverse I’m sure we can turn the business around with the new products coming on line. Work / go through – complete At the moment we’re working / going through the final figures for the project. Throughout – everywhere within As the sharks approach the fish, panic spreads throughout the shoal. Blood runs / courses throughout the body. Transport systems run throughout / across the...
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Prepositions 1: to in at Describes direction and the relative positions of things To – direction (here → there) We often go to Paris for weekends. From – direction (there → here) We come from Italy, we live in Rome In – enclosed The children are playing in their tents, in the garden. Out – exterior Paul isn’t here at the moment. He’s out, he’ll be back later. At – coincidence of place / time Erin will be at the hotel at 8.00 o’clock. She’s at the airport at the moment. On – attached / touching Your key is there on the table. The painting is on the wall. Off (often with a verb) – not attached It’s polite to take your hat off when you enter a house. Off typically appears with a verb, such as take – off (remove), creating Phrasal...
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