Serendipity

Unit 14, Activity 2

Index Activity 3

Multi-word Verbs

One kind of idiomatic language in English is the use of multi-word verbs. These verbs can be made up of two words:

look after
take up
go over
beat up

...or three:

look up to
get rid of
get on with
cut down on

Multi-word verbs often have two or many more meanings. The meaning can be literal or figurative:

I looked up and saw the pale moon.
I looked up the name on Wikipedia.

hich of the following phrases do you know? Your trainer will help explain the ones you don’t know:

wear out
go over
put up with
end up
count on
pitch in
get away with
figure out
pick out
get by
look into
fit in

When you are confident you know them, choose five of them and use them in sentences:

1 ___________
2 ___________
3 ___________
4 ___________
5 ___________