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Now understand complex phrasal verbs easily! If you have been preparing for banking and government exams, you cannot undermine the importance of mastering phrasal verbs for scoring well in the English Language section. Various SSC exams – SSC CGL, CHSL, Stenographer or others – test your knowledge of Phrasal Verbs through Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement, Sentence Correction, etc. Since phrasal verbs are often used in Reading Comprehension passages too, it is vital for you to be familiar with them. Our new endeavour – Phrasal Verbs Made Easy Capsules – will ensure your success in competitive exams like IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, SBI PO, SBI Clerk, RBI, IBPS RRB, LIC AAO, NICL AO, etc. Here is the Phrasal Verbs Made Easy PDF Capsule 11 to get you started!
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What is a phrasal verb?
A phrasal verb is a verb followed by a preposition or an adverb; the combination creates a meaning different from the original verb alone.
Phrasal Verbs Made Easy PDF Capsule 11 – Make
Kevin: This happens every time!
Roger: What happened?
Kevin: Christie and I fought again.
Roger: Ha ha, that’s not something new! What happened this time?
Kevin: Leave it. We will make up for it, as usual.
Make up for
Meaning: Compensate for something lost, missed, or deficient.
Roger: Great! Provide something good and forget the negativity.
Kevin: What?! Why are you suddenly so philosophical?
Roger: You just said you would make up for…
Kevin: So?
Roger: When you make up for it, you mean you compensate for it, right?
Kevin: No, I will apologize and we will be friends again. You know, an apology is the cheapest thing to save the most expensive gift called relationships!
Roger: Then, you must say ‘make up‘, not make up for.
Kevin: Yes, we will make up for the fight. Right?
Roger: No, make upmeans to reconcile,make up after a fight.Make up formeans to compensate, make up for the loss.
Kevin: Oh, then we will make it up soon ? A ‘for’ is a big thing, indeed!
Roger: Yes. You know what does ‘make for‘ mean?
Kevin:Make for means to go directly toward someone or something. Like, he made for the Principal to complain against her.
Roger: Yes! One can remember this meaning using ‘make way for Noddy‘ cartoon and its title song. Make way for: directly, without any hindrance, okay?
Kevin: Ha! Cool! So, how can one remember the meaning of ‘make out‘ and ‘make off‘?
Make Out
Meaning: Deal with a situation, usually in a successful way.
Make Off
Meaning: Leave hurriedly, especially in order to avoid duty or punishment.
Roger:Make off means to leave quickly, usually in order to escape. And, make out means to deal with a situation, usually in a successful way. Let me think… Hmm… Make… Off… Make means create, off means distance. So, make off means to create a distance, to run away, to escape?
Kevin: See, with that tip, make out seems to means to leave quickly. Make… Out… Escape…
Roger: Okay, when life throws lemons at you make lemonade out of those lemons – that is, deal with life productively, okay?
Kevin: That’s good.
Roger: Now, make off. Make off rhymes with ran off – to leave quickly. And, it’s easy to remember: make off, ran off!
Kevin: That definitely works. Thank you, Roger.
Roger: You’re welcome ?
We hope you find Phrasal Verbs Made Easy PDF Capsule 11, helpful. If you want to know the meanings of more phrasal verbs, then comment below to get a capsule for it! Also, go through some of the following articles to improve your spoken and written English:
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Now understand complex phrasal verbs easily! If you have been preparing for banking and government exams, you cannot undermine the importance of mastering phrasal verbs for scoring well in the English Language section. Various SSC exams – SSC CGL, CHSL, Stenographer or others – test your knowledge of Phrasal Verbs through Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement, Sentence Correction, etc. Since phrasal verbs are often used in Reading Comprehension passages too, it is vital for you to be familiar with them. Our new endeavour – Phrasal Verbs Made Easy Capsules – will ensure your success in competitive exams like IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, SBI PO, SBI Clerk, RBI, IBPS RRB, LIC AAO, NICL AO, etc. Here is the Phrasal Verbs Made Easy PDF Capsule 1 to get you started!
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What is a phrasal verb?
A phrasal verb is a verb followed by a preposition or an adverb; the combination creates ameaning different from the original verb alone.
Phrasal Verbs Made Easy PDF Capsule 1: Burn up… or burn down???
The following conversation between ‘Kevin’ and ‘Roger’ will explain the meaning of all these phrasal verbs.
Kevin: Do you know, yesterday Tom’s house burnt up. Fortunately, all are safe.
Roger: Thank they’re safe! But you should focus more on phrasal verbs especially for the upcoming aptitude test. Houses don’t burn up, they burn down.
Kevin: These phrasal verbs get on my nerves sometimes. What’s the difference between ‘burn up’ and ‘burn down’?
Roger: When something burns up, it uses energy to produce flames. When something burns down, it is destroyed by fire. That’s why we use ‘burn up’ to mean ‘to get angry’. We just use our energy to produce flames, when we become angry.
Kevin: But I have read in a newspaper that ‘a satellite is burnt up’. Why is it so?
Roger: Maybe to avoid confusion.
Kevin: To avoid confusion?! Hmm… The satellite burnt up… The building burnt down…
Ha! The satellite burnt down up in the sky; the house burnt down to the ground! So, they didn’t want to use ‘down’, ‘up’ and ‘in the sky’. Just ‘burn up’.
Roger: Maybe. Phrasal verbs in English can’t always be explained with a single rule, but there is always some logic behind them.
Kevin: Hmm! The satellite burnt up in the sky; the house burnt down to the ground. It won’t be confusing anymore!
Roger: These are some other phrasal verbs of burn: burn away, burn off, burn out.
Kevin:Burn out means to be exhausted or tired.
Roger: Yes! It also means to wear out. ‘The light bulb or the fan burnt out’. Burn away means to remove something, using heat or fire. Like, ‘they burnt away weeds’. But, burn off means to disappear because of warmth or heat. ‘Dew burns off after sunrise’. Here, no one is intentionally removing the dew. As heat increased, it just vanished.
Kevin: Okay! Burn away vs. burn off; burn up vs. burn down; burn out! Got them all, thanks, Roger!!!
We hope you find Phrasal Verbs Made Easy PDF Capsule 1, helpful. If you want to know the meanings of more phrasal verbs, then comment below to get a capsule for it! Also, go through some of the following articles to improve your spoken and written English:
Phrasal Verb Generators
These have a slightly different approach to phrasal verb learning. Two boxes contain a) the most common verbs that make up phrasal verbs b) the most common particles that make up the second part of phrasal verbs. Students work together to 'generate' as many legitimate phrasal verbs as possible. As a back-up, a gap-fill exercise follows where students have to use phrasal verbs to fill the spaces.
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Phrasal Verbs - The Participle 'Out'
This will help your students to focus on the different meanings of the participle 'out' used for phrasal verbs. Phrasal Verb Gap-Fill Worksheets
These have been divided according to the alphabet. Each of these eight worksheets presents students with a list of phrasal verbs and they have to choose the correct one to fill the spaces in the exercise.
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Fill in the blanks with an appropriate adverb particle or preposition.
1. I like to hang ……………………… with my friends in the evening.
To hang out is to spend time relaxing and enjoying yourself.
To hang up is to end a telephone conversation by cutting the connection.
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To hang on is to wait for a short time.
When you are a cut above the rest, you are better than others.
If you are cut out for something, you have the right qualities for it.
6. We will reach faster if we cut ………………………. the meadow.
To cut across something is to go through it.
7. You always cut ……………………… when we are discussing something serious.
To cut in is to interrupt someone.
8. She looked cut ……………………. so I asked what the matter was.
Cut up means very upset.
9. I don’t like it when you run me ……………………… in front of my colleagues.
To run somebody down is to criticize them.
10. Let me run ………………………… the details of the program again.
To run through is to go over as a quick rehearsal.
11. Many top level athletes have pulled ………………………… of the event.
To pull out is to withdraw.
To pull off is to succeed in doing something difficult.
Answers
1. I like to hang out with my friends in the evening.
2. Before I could say anything she hung up. 3. Hang on! I am coming. 4. He is a cut above the rest. 5. She is cut out for the show business. 6. We will reach faster if we cut across the meadow. 7. You always cut in when we are discussing something serious. 8. She looked cut up so I asked what the matter was. 9. I don’t like it when you run me down in front of my colleagues. 10. Let me run through the details of the program again. 11. Many top level athletes have pulled out of the event. 12. She can pull off any outfit. Comments are closed.
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