f you know the verb to drown, “to drown”, it becomes very easy to understand the phrasal verb drown out , which is what you use to say that one sound drowned out another. For example, if a car passes by while you are talking and leaves your friend’s voice inaudible for an instant, what the car did was drown out his voice. … Read more
Pack up is an easy to remember phrasal . You can, in addition to use Anki to review it , make a simple association between pack and ” pac otar”, which is its most common sense. However, a number of other meanings also exist. Imagine this article as if it were a clickbait post on the Internet: 6 MEANINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW OF THE VERB PACK UP . THE SIXTH WILL SURPRISE YOU! … Read more
It is difficult to stop being surprised by the amazing ability of the English language to transform any-want, and I say WHAT-WANT, word in a verb – and then, with the help of any unemployed preposition, in a phrasal verb . Example: take a chalk. That’s right, a simple piece of chalk, nothing more than a humble set … Read more
For get down is already a phrasal verb in itself, but as we have already commented here, sometimes you can put up to two prepositions after a verb and still extract some sense from this linguistic contraption. And this is how we get get down on someone . Note the use of two prepositions: down and on . What is the meaning of this new phrasal? Easy: get down on … Read more
Have you had an encounter with the verb pick out ? Although he is not one of the most fearsome monsters in the phrasal zoo , he can be quite a frightening and unpredictable specimen – when you think you have understood all his meanings, there is a new meaning that almost no dictionary included! To resolve doubts about this linguistic … Read more
