Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS On the completion of this graduation paper, I am sincerely grateful to many teachers who have helped, encouraged and supported me during years in the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Dong Do University First of all, I would like to express my great thanks to all my teachers in the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Dong Do University for their interesting and useful lectures which gave me background knowledge of English In addition, I owe a sincere thank to my Supervisor, Ms Vu Thi Thuong who has helped me to shape the ideas and guided me in different matters related to the topic Her continual encouragement and patient guidance made my work easier Last but not least, my heartfelt thanks are to my family and all my dear friends who have given me love, support and encouragement for the completion of this graduation paper Without the help and support of these people, my graduation paper could not have been done Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Part A: INTRODUCTION Statement of the topic Each language has its own character, developed by the countless generations who have used it In spoken English, phrasal verbs are the most common verb forms, they have the importance that lies in the fact that they form a key part of everyday English Phrasal verbs are frequently used by native speakers, especially in casual, laid-back spoken English The importance of multiword expression to gain fluency in language learning has been asserted by many researchers In fact, phrasal verbs are often a particular problem for learners of English Many students generally find great differences between their English with native speakers When using unfamiliar phrasal verbs, a lot of students of English, struggle with finding the right preposition Unfortunately, preposition usage does not follow the set rules so everything must be memorized Moreover, the meanings of a phrasal verb often have no relation to the meaning of either verb or preposition which is used with it and its meaning is often unpredictable In the process of learning English at Dong Do University, my studying provides me with very basic and vital knowledge Nevertheless, phrasal verbs are paid little attention Thus, the thesis paper is focus on the usage of phrasal verbs and the way to study them effectively Especially, I would like to present the analysis of verb – particle combination regarding to the structure of both verb and particle As a student, I have little experience on in – depth studies in grammatical field My knowledge is just what I Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English obtained from the lessons in class, my teachers, books as well as any information on the Internet Hope that this is also helpful to the students who would like to share ideas with other fellow students of the same interest Reason for choosing the topic As a big part of the English vocabulary is made up of phrasal verbs, if students of English can learn and use common phrasal verbs, their vocabulary will be bigger, their listening and reading comprehension will improve, and their spoken English will be more fluent and native-like But "There are so many phrasal verbs in English, and they all look so confusing How should I go about learning phrasal verbs?" This is a common question of the learners But phrasal verbs are a specific kind of verbs Their meanings are mostly conceptual or even completely idiomatic, there are no shortcuts to phrasal verbs Learners have to memorize them and try to use them as much as they can The addition of this difficulty is having to remember which particles must be used in combination with certain verbs and their using of the wrong particles can distort meanings and mark writing as non – native Darwin and Gray (1999) noted that the students prefer using a single to a multiword verb; consequently, they tend to avoid phrasal verbs The reason is simply that it takes time to store so many verb – particle constructions without any definite rules Moreover, the teachers also put off teaching phrasal verbs until the students are at highly advanced level However, no one can deny the crucial role of phrasal verbs in the English Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English language Exploring phrasal verbs in English is one of the main factors which denote a true, colloquial speaker of English Therefore, this thesis is to help students face with the challenge and enable them to take the most advantage of it This makes a small contribution, especially with regard to the usages and types of phrasal verbs In fact, not worry about phrasal verbs, call them whatever you want The most important thing is that you should understand as many phrasal verbs as possible and be able to use them For meanings or equivalent ‘normal’ verbs, you will need to buy a good dictionary or a phrasal verb grammar book Hopefully, this thesis works well to everyone Aims of study It is obvious that foreign learners have many difficulties in understanding and using phrasal verbs in English With my understanding, I would like to give some information about this matter The specific aims of study are to: • Bring the most basic information on phrasal verbs in English • Help learners understand types of phrasal verbs • Guide them to use phrasl verbs effectiverly and provide them some tips on learning phrasal verbs In short, I hope my graduation paper will provide more useful information for all people who want to expand their knowledge about phrasal verbs, especially English learners Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Methods of study To finish this thesis, I have based on three main methods: synthetic, list, analysis Firstly is Synthetic method This means collecting informations about phrasal verbs from many reliable book such as: “Oxford phrasal verbs” of Oxford University Press, “Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English”… and on the internet then gathered together Secondly, it is listing method I have listed many examples that I took from books, internet and from my knowledges in university in this thesis Lastly, analysis method After collecting and listing the informations and examples, they are all analyzed for readers easy to undertand Outline of the paper The paper consists of three main parts: Part A – INTRODUCTION, it deals with the statement of the topic, the reason for choosing topic and the outline of the paper Part B – DEVELOPMENT, it mentions to overview of phrasal verbs, types of phrasal verbs and guides to use phrasal verbs Part C – CONCLUSION, it gives summary of the thesis, remarks and suggestions APPENDIX is added at the end of this paper to supply some exercises about phrasal verbs, key to exercises and references Part B: DEVELOPMENT Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Chapter 1: OVERVIEW OF THE PHRASAL VERBS I What are the phrasal verbs? Definition In English, there is one particular aspect of the grammar and vocabulary: combinations of two (sometimes three) parts; verbs with an adverbial or prepositional particles It can be a core verb plus one or two particles They are extremely common in English and these combinations are generally called phrasal verbs E.g Fortunately, the plan came off (= succeeded) Why did you turn down such a good offer? (= refuse) I can’t make out if it’s a man or women over there (= see clearly) Identifying phrasal verbs A phrasal verb is formed by a verb with a preposition, a verb with an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition • Verb + adverb: Take off = Leave quickly, fly away • Verb + preposition: Come across = Find by chance • Verb + adverb + preposition Look down on = Think little and scorn II Difficulties in learning phrasal verbs Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Difficult to understand meanings In many cases, even though both the verb and the particles in the phrasal verb may be familiar, students may not understand the meaning of the combination, since it can differ from the meanings of the two words used independently The fact that phrasal verbs often have a number of different meanings adds to their complexity Grammatical problems Some particles, such as about, over, round and through can be used as both adverbs and prepositions in particular phrasal verbs combinations, although in other combinations they are used either adverbially or prepositionally Some phrasal verbs are not normally used with pronouns as objects, others are normally only used with pronouns as objects Phrasal verbs tend to be informal It is often said that phrasal verbs tend to be rather ‘colloquial’ of ‘informal’ and more appropriate to spoken English than written, and even that it is better to avoid them and choose single-word equivalents or synonyms instead Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English III Phrasal verb misunderstanding Phrasal Verbs and other multi-word verbs 1.1 A basic verb + another word or words The important thing to remember is that a multi-word verb is still a verb "Get" is a verb "Get up", is also a verb, a different verb "Get" and "Get up" are two different verbs They not have the same meaning So you should treat each multi-word verb as a separate verb, and learn it like any other verb 1.2 Verb + preposition phrase combinations Many verb + preposition phrase combinations are idiomatic Such combinations function semantically as a unit that can often be replaced by a single lexical verb, as in the following sentence: E.g I also have to bear in mind the interests of my wife and family (= remember) 1.3 Verb + verb combinations A second idiomatic category involves verb + verb combinations, such as: E.g Patients had to make with quiche or ham salad 1.4 Verb + noun phrase combinations There are a few verbs such as: take, make, have and that can be used for many meanings These verbs cam combine with noun phrases to form idiomatic verbal expressions In many cases, the combination also includes a following preposition Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English E.g Do you want me to your hair? Yes, I’ll take care of it Phrasal verbs and idioms Many phrasal verbs have idiom meanings, they are called idiomatic phrasal verbs That is, the meaning of the whole verb is not related to the meaning of the parts of the verb So we always misunderstand and think that all the phrasal verbs are idioms E.g She opened her suitcase and packed all the clothes in (Literal meaning) He decided to pack his job in (leave his job) (Idiom meaning) Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Chapter 2: TYPES OF PHRASAL VERBS I Dividing by semantic Literal phrasal verbs Literal phrasal verbs are the most commonly, their structure include verbs + directional prepositions Here are some examples: Go ahead = Come back Proceed = Return Aspectual phrasal verbs Aspectual are phrasal verbs whose meaning is not as transparent as literal phrasal verbs, but the meaning is not idiomatic either E.g Get over Flame out = Go to a place = Fail Idiomatic phrasal verbs Idiomatic phrasal verbs are phrasal verbs whose meanings are idiom and their whole meanings are different from the meaning of verbs or prepositions E.g Follow up = Take further action about something Pass away = Die Polysemous phrasal verbs The final semantic category of phrasal verbs called polysemous which can have multiple meanings E.g Pick up = Become better = Obtain or buy something Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 10 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Some phrasal verbs have nouns forms where the particle is first The stress in pronunciation is usually on the particle 2.3 Adjectives There are also adjectives which are based on phrasal verbs E.g a broken-down vehicle (vehicle whose engine has stopped working) a breakdown truck (truck which helps drivers who have broken down) blocked-up drains (drains where the water cannot flow properly) Pronunciation patterns of Phrasal verbs 3.1 Phrasal verbs with one stress In phrasal verbs with one stress, the main stress is often on the verb, and no stress on the particle E.g He ‘makes for the door She ‘looks at all the options 3.2 Phrasal verbs with two stresses These phrasal verbs have both a primary and a secondary stress The primary stress is on the second word, the particle The secondary stress is on the first word, the verb The majority of phrasal verbs are like this E.g How are you making ‘out in your new home? I’ve set the oven to turn ‘on at p.m 3.3 Exception Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 14 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Sometimes the same phrasal verb can have different stresses depending on its meaning These cases are treated as separate phrasal verbs: E.g The animals live on bamboo shoots Long after her death, her memory lives on 3.4 Nouns and adjectives formed from phrasal verbs: rules for stress • Nouns The majority of phrasal verbs are stressed on their second word (the particle), but nouns formed from those verbs usually have the stress on the first part of the word E.g verb Noun let down letdown print out printout turn off turn-off break in break-in • Adjectives For adjectives formed from phrasal verbs, the rules are less straight forward Some adjectives are stressed on the second element, especially those where the verb is in its past participle form When these adjectives come at the end of a phrase, their stress pattern usually follows the 'citation form': E.g My shoes are worn out The place looks really run down Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 15 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English The area is quite built up The warehouse was completely burnt out II Use of phrasal verbs Phrasal verbs in work, study and finance 1.1 Study Listening carefully to instructions in English from your teacher, you can see many phrasal verbs are used E.g Miss out Work out = Forget to answer = Do (exercises) 1.2 Work Phrasal verbs help in talking informally about your work and career These are some useful example in this field: E.g Get ahead Take on = Be successful in job = Begin to employ 1.3 Business Business English uses a number of specific phrasal verbs that are either rarely used in other contexts, e.g to start up, to sell up, or are used in other contexts with different meanings, e.g to turn over E.g Start up Set up = Create (a business / organization) = Start (a company / organization) Phrasal verbs in personal life Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 16 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English 2.1 Relationships There are also a lot of phrasal verbs which deal with relationships and people should get on with each other E.g Fall for Hit off = Have a romantic relationship with someone = Immediately become friendly with someone 2.2 Feeling When talking about the feelings, they particles such as up and down are often used Up and down phrasal verbs connected with feelings refer to positive (up) and negative (down) emotions and emotional events, or a more emotional intensity (up) or less emotional intensity (down) These are some example: Up: Brighten up, will you! You’re depressing every one (= Suddenly look or feel happier) Down: She broke down when she was told the bad news (= Was unable to control her feelings and started to cry) 2.3 Homes and daily routines Phrasal verbs are used in communication to make your speech more naturally, especially they are used widely in family and in daily routine E.g Move in Sleep over = Begin living in a new house or flat = Sleep in someone else’s home for a night 2.4 Health Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 17 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Having health problems, speakers can describe their problems by using phrasal verbs E.g Come down with Throw up = = Get sick Vomit 2.5 Food and drink You will find a few more phrasal verbs on the food theme if you look at the instructions in a recipe book Put on = Begin to cook food Heat up = Make it hot 2.6 Criticizing Phrasal verbs bring some ways of criticizing • If you lay into someone, you criticize or attack them in an angry way E.g The headmaster really laid into the boys for arriving school so late • If you pick on someone, you choose one person from a group of people to criticize or treat unfairly, especially when they are smaller or weaker than you E.g Mark was quiet, studious child and the big boys in the class used to pick on him • If you hit back, you criticize or attack someone who has criticized or attacked you Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 18 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English E.g Jack is constantly criticizing his sons – I’m sure they’ll hit back eventually • If you run down someone or something, or run someone or something down, you criticize that person or thing, often unfairly E.g Pam’s big sister is always running her down even though Pam is far cleverer than her • If you take out something on someone or take something out on someone, you treat someone badly because you are upset or angry, even though they have done nothing wrong E.g Of course Mary is upset at losing her job but she shouldn’t take it out on her family • If you rub something in (informal), you talk to someone about something which they want to forget because they feel bad about it E.g I know it was my fault I just wish everyone would stop rubbing it in! Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 19 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English III Effective methods in study phrasal verbs Understand the main meanings of important particles Particles often have particular meanings which they contribute to a variety of combinations, and which are productive: that is, these fixed meanings are used in order to create new combinations By this way, we can easy to remember the meanings of phrasal verbs Organizing phrasal verbs 2.1 Organizing by particles The particles used in phrasal verbs often have particular meanings which can help us to understand the meaning of the whole verb We can record verbs under these meaning like thses examples: Investigate Persuade = = look into, dig into, delve into talk into, pull into, draw into 2.2 Organizing by topics Sometimes it can help us to remember verbs if we record them in groups according to the topic they relate to This is because these verbs often appear together in the same context Computers Feeling Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan = = log on, boot up, mouse over get carried away, fall out 20 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English 2.3 Organizing by synomyms and antonyms Synonyms are words which mean almost the same as each other, and antonyms are words which mean the opposite So we should study phrasal verbs with their synonyms and antonyms There are very few cases where two words or expressions mean exactly the same as each other, but you should be able to substitute the synonyms which we give in most contexts, without greatly changing the meaning Learn by phrasal verbs in contexts The last thing we must to remember that is always learn phrasal verbs in context It is useless to memorize lists of phrasal verbs and their definitions out of context - We will definitely forget about them in a short time Students need to pay special attention to phrasal verbs if they wish to speak the language fluently Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 21 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Part C: CONCLUSION The summary of the topic The English language has become more and more dominant and very popular all over the world, over the years It is far and widely spoken by people in many countries It is the most important language of the world With the growing influence of the English language, phrasal verbs are becoming increasingly important Phrasal verbs are very common in spoken and written English so we need them to understand and speak English naturally Having a rich phrasal verb vocabulary enables us to speak English effortlessly In order to understand, speak, read and write English well, we need to be skilled in them Since the start of learning English, grammar has become a povotal part with a lot of difficulties facing all learners One of the most challenges is phrasal verbs which differ from normal verbs in which they are constituted by two or three elements instead of just one My study aims to present the phrasal verbs in English What it is? How to use and learn it effectively? Phrasal verb is a common verb form that both native English-speaking and foreign language students must learn to fully and completely use both spoken and written English Phrasal verbs may be either intransitive or transitive The main purpose of this thesis is to analyzing the structure of Phrasal verbs, types of Phrasal verbs as well as the importance of using phrasal verbs, the factual state of students in this kind of verbs Remarks and suggestions Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 22 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English We can see from reality, phrasal verb still leaves problems for a lot of students, as well as others Stop communicating to students how difficult phrasal verbs are, my message should be that phrasal verbs are just more than words, that they are not that difficult to learn, and that students have already acquired quite a few without realizing it Vocabulary learning is often thought of as picking up one word at a time Yet learning a language is very much a matter of learning how words taken together than the sum of their individual meanings Accordingly, it is beneficial to learn both literal and idiomatic meaning of each phrasal verb Using phrasal verbs in speech, stress is very important But it is really difficult to remember all of the stress rules so that don’t try to learn by heart all the rules of stress Just pay attention to the context and sentences we use phrasal verbs so we can naturally remember it and use it as native speakers Personally, I think trying to learn verbs from a list is boring and quite difficult It’s better to learn them from different situations, then there’s more chance that we can remember them Don’t think of them as a special subject that has to be learnt, even easier is to treat them as we treat any other vocabulary we learn Moreover, learning language requires a long time of making friend and practice so learners should keep drilling in and improving it day by day Talking about “Phrasal verbs in English”, it is difficult for me to deeply study because of its diversification in using and the differences between Vietnam and British’s culture, language and the far distance as well How can the users learn phrasal verbs in a funny, motivating way when many Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 23 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English study materials out there are dry and difficult to work with? I also hope my thesis can help to answer this question! Due to the time constraint and my limited knowledge of English especially of phrasal verbs in English, I still have a lot of difficulties in using English fluently and correctly So mistakes and errors are unavoidable Therefore, I would like to receive all valuable comments and advice that help me better this thesis as well as improve my English and study in the future Once again, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of my lecturers, family, dear friends and especially, my supervisor for their supports Without their helps I cannot complete this graduation paper successfully Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 24 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English REFERENCES Biber, D., Conrad, S & Leech, G (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Essex: Pearson Education Limited Celce-Murcia, M & Larsen-Freeman, D (1999) The grammar book Boston: Heinle & Heinle Cobuild, C (1990) Dictionary of phrasal verbs Collins publishers & the university of Birmingham Darwin, C & Gray, L (1999) Going after the phrasal verb: an alternative approach to clasification.TESTOL Quarterly Vol.33, No.1, Spring 1999 Eastwood, J (2006) Oxford Practice Grammar Oxford University Press McCarthy, M & O’Dell, F English phrasal verbs in use McInstosh, C (2001), Oxford phrasal verbs Oxford University Press http://www.ccas.ru/olenev/english/phverbs.html http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-phrasal-verbs_3.htm 10 http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/MEDMagazine/October2005/34-Phrasal-Verbs-Pron.htm 11 http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/ 12 http://www.phrasalverbsinbritain.com Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 25 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Part A: INTRODUCTION .2 Statement of the topic 2 Reason for choosing the topic 3 Aims of study 4 Methods of study 5 Outline of the paper .5 Part B: DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: OVERVIEW OF THE PHRASAL VERBS I What are the phrasal verbs? Definition Identifying phrasal verbs .6 II Difficulties in learning phrasal verbs .6 Difficult to understand meanings Grammatical problems Phrasal verbs tend to be informal .7 III Phrasal verb misunderstanding Phrasal Verbs and other multi-word verbs 1.1 A basic verb + another word or words 1.2 Verb + preposition phrase combinations .8 1.3 Verb + verb combinations 1.4 Verb + noun phrase combinations .8 Phrasal verbs and idioms Chapter 2: TYPES OF PHRASAL VERBS 10 I Dividing by semantic 10 Literal phrasal verbs 10 Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 26 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Aspectual phrasal verbs 10 Idiomatic phrasal verbs .10 Polysemous phrasal verbs 10 II Dividing by structure .11 I Intransitive phrasal verbs 11 II Transitive phrasal verbs 11 Inseparable transitive phrasal verbs 11 Optionally separable transitive phrasal verbs 11 Obligatorily separable transitive phrasal verbs 12 Three-word phrasal Verbs (Transitive) 12 Chapter 3: GUIDES TO USE PHRASAL VERBS 13 I Parts of phrasal verbs .13 Verbs and particles 13 1.1 Verbs 13 1.2 Particles 13 Nouns and adjectives based on phrasal verbs 13 2.1 Nouns made from verb + particle 13 2.2 Nouns made from particle + verb 13 2.3 Adjectives 14 Pronunciation patterns of Phrasal verbs 14 3.1 Phrasal verbs with one stress .14 3.2 Phrasal verbs with two stresses 14 3.3 Exception 14 3.4 Nouns and adjectives formed from phrasal verbs: rules for stress .15 II Use of phrasal verbs 16 Phrasal verbs in work, study and finance 16 1.1 Study 16 1.2 Work 16 Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 27 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English 1.3 Business .16 Phrasal verbs in personal life .16 2.1 Relationships 17 2.2 Feeling 17 2.3 Homes and daily routines 17 2.4 Health 17 2.5 Food and drink 18 2.6 Criticizing 18 Organizing phrasal verbs 20 2.1 Organizing by particles .20 2.2 Organizing by topics 20 2.3 Organizing by synomyms and antonyms 21 Learn by phrasal verbs in contexts 21 Part C: CONCLUSION 22 The summary of the topic .22 Remarks and suggestions 22 REFERENCES Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 28 N14A2 - Dong Do University [...]... Phrasal Verbs in English III Effective methods in study phrasal verbs 1 Understand the main meanings of important particles Particles often have particular meanings which they contribute to a variety of combinations, and which are productive: that is, these fixed meanings are used in order to create new combinations By this way, we can easy to remember the meanings of phrasal verbs 2 Organizing phrasal verbs. ..Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English = Collect things II Dividing by structure I Intransitive phrasal verbs • Structure: Verb + Particle Intransitive phrasal verbs are phrasal verbs that are not followed by an object E.g Shut up! Just forget it (Conversation) Go off to bed now (Conversation) II Transitive phrasal verbs Transitive phrasal verbs are phrasal verbs that must take direct objects They are. .. learners should keep drilling in and improving it day by day Talking about Phrasal verbs in English”, it is difficult for me to deeply study because of its diversification in using and the differences between Vietnam and British’s culture, language and the far distance as well How can the users learn phrasal verbs in a funny, motivating way when many Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 23 N14A2 - Dong Do University... Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English study materials out there are dry and difficult to work with? I also hope my thesis can help to answer this question! Due to the time constraint and my limited knowledge of English especially of phrasal verbs in English, I still have a lot of difficulties in using English fluently and correctly So mistakes and errors are unavoidable Therefore, I would like to... and drink You will find a few more phrasal verbs on the food theme if you look at the instructions in a recipe book Put on = Begin to cook food Heat up = Make it hot 2.6 Criticizing Phrasal verbs bring some ways of criticizing • If you lay into someone, you criticize or attack them in an angry way E.g The headmaster really laid into the boys for arriving school so late • If you pick on someone, you choose... Organizing by particles The particles used in phrasal verbs often have particular meanings which can help us to understand the meaning of the whole verb We can record verbs under these meaning like thses examples: Investigate Persuade = = look into, dig into, delve into talk into, pull into, draw into 2.2 Organizing by topics Sometimes it can help us to remember verbs if we record them in groups according... Phrasal Verbs in English Chapter 3: GUIDES TO USE PHRASAL VERBS I Parts of phrasal verbs 1 Verbs and particles 1.1 Verbs Verb is a main part of a phrasal verb One verb can combine with different particles to create phrasal verbs with different meanings There are many verbs in English to create phrasal verbs but some verbs are common and they are used more than other verbs They are some key verbs, such... more and more dominant and very popular all over the world, over the years It is far and widely spoken by people in many countries It is the most important language of the world With the growing influence of the English language, phrasal verbs are becoming increasingly important Phrasal verbs are very common in spoken and written English so we need them to understand and speak English naturally Having... used widely in family and in daily routine E.g Move in Sleep over = Begin living in a new house or flat = Sleep in someone else’s home for a night 2.4 Health Nguyen Thi Thuong Lan 17 N14A2 - Dong Do University Graduation paper Phrasal Verbs in English Having health problems, speakers can describe their problems by using phrasal verbs E.g Come down with Throw up = = Get sick Vomit 2.5 Food and drink You... of phrasal verbs which deal with relationships and people should get on with each other E.g Fall for Hit off = Have a romantic relationship with someone = Immediately become friendly with someone 2.2 Feeling When talking about the feelings, they particles such as up and down are often used Up and down phrasal verbs connected with feelings refer to positive (up) and negative (down) emotions and emotional