3000 English Phrasal Verbs
In English, like bread and butter or tea and biscuits; a sentence using phrasal words really does make the world go around. You may not have noticed that you’re actually using them, most of the time – because a phrasal verb is a combination of a verb + adverb or a verb + preposition, mostly in the shape of just two words. Some would say that the modern, symbiotic English language adds more and more phrasal verbs every day. With new ‘street lingo’, whether good or bad; being added to accepted speech so quickly nowadays, we don’t know whether we need to catch up, slow down or just pass out! If you hadn’t noticed, those were just three little examples of phrasal verbs. Let me explain. Catch = verb + up = preposition.
English Phrasal Verbs
Catch up = phrasal verb. Well here are the most common examples of phrasal verbs, based on 2016’s most commonly used phrasal verbs, in no order of preference. Keep up, please! 1.LOG ON/LOG OFF This is something almost everyone under the age of 80 does every day. In the growing age of technological dominance, devices require us to input information to get along with our daily chores.
Mediafire game downloads. 2.SHUT UP While not something we at Explore English advocate, it has to be said that it is frequently used, often as a replacement for more profane, universally-offensive words. Years ago it would have been far more offensive, but with those offensive words becoming more and more liberally accepted, “shut up” is actually used as a way of expressing disbelief, replacing phrasal verbs such as “get off”, “come off it”, or “steady on” in everyday speech.