Phrasal Verbs
Rick Shur
Name(s)________________________________
Instructions: Choose a phrasal verb from the list for each sentence and be sure to put the verb in the
correct form. You will have to use some phrasal verbs more than once.
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1. After we got it back, the teacher _went through_ the exam and explained the answers one by one.
2. Because he doesn’t always have time, the pianist often __leaves out___ a few songs in his program.
3. Carlos __hung up__ on his sister because he was so tired of listening to her whining on the phone.
4. Dad wondered where I'd been, and I ____made up____________ a story about being at Grandma's.
5. He tried to __put on__ his jacket by himself, but he was too weak to put his arms in the sleeves.
6. He was getting very heavy, but he just _________kept on__________________________ eating.
7. I don't know how those thieves think they can _get away with _ a robbery in broad daylight like that.
8. He won the lottery, but he had no self control, so he _went through_ a million dollars in less than year.
9. John really does _take after______ his father, doesn't he? He looks and acts the same as his old man!
10. Lisa and I often have loud, angry arguments, but we always kiss and __make up______ afterwards.
11. My family was careful and disciplined, so we __got by___ on very little money when I was a kid.
12. She __went through________ some very hard times before she finally got settled and found a job.
13. She spoke so quickly I couldn't manage to ____take down______ her address before she hung up.
14. Students knew the paper was due on Monday, but they _put off___ studying until it was too late.
15. Tashonda was astonished that she was _turned down_ for the counseling position she had applied for.
16. Terri usually _catches on____ to the most complex problems in calculus before anyone else does.
17. The committee promised that the celebrity would ____show up___________ for the big event.
18. The detective vowed to _____find out_______ who the murderer was before the case went to trial.
19. The plane __took off__ from the runway an hour late because of the bad weather yesterday.
20. The student handed in a poem and the professor promised to __look_____ it ____over________ .
21. The twins seem to ___get along with__________ each other just fine. They never fight or argue.
22. We were too tired to cook, so we ____ate out_______________ at our favorite Italian restaurant.
23. We weren’t invited to the party, but we _found out__ about it when we saw an invitation on the floor.
24. When we finally ____made it___________ to the airport, we were not in time to catch our flight.
25. You should have ____taken off______________ your hat last night when you entered the church.
catch on (understand)
eat out (dine at a restaurant)
find out (discover)
get along with (relate well to)
get away with (do without
punishment)
get by (survive, manage, cope)
go through (use, experience, review)
hang up (end a phone call)
keep on (continue)
leave out (exclude, omit)
look over (check, inspect)
make it to (reach, get to)
make up (create, stop fighting)
put off (delay, postpone)
put on (wear, get dressed in)
show up for (attend, come to)
take after (resemble, act like)
take down (write down, note)
take off (go up into the sky)
turn down (reject)