Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: When it comes to phrasal verbs, you can look them up, but you can’t look up them

Can you back your hard drive up? Or must you back up your hard drive? Can you calm yourself down? Or must you calm down yourself? Can you blow balloons up? Or must you blow up balloons? Can you hang ...
BBC

6 tips for learning new phrasal verbs

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have a question you want us to answer? You can send us your questions to learning.english@bbc.co.uk Alejandra has sent us a question. She wants ...
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6 phrasal verbs with 'do' you must know in English

Do you know how to use do up, do over, or do without? In this lesson, Claire teaches six of the most common English phrasal verbs with “do,” using easy examples you’ll remember. Learn what they mean, ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Hark to this lesson on a familiar phrasal verb

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 ...
BBC

Grammar Reference

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...