If you are not really interested into it, it can be a bit boring. Sorry!
But I will try to find as many nice pictures as I can about phrasal verbs to lighten up the heavy stuff.
Most of the pictures I will use, I have found on English is fun, a handy page on Facebook.
Yesterday I forgot to inform you about the place of the preposition of a phrasal verb.
As you might hopefully remember a phrasal verb consists of a verb and a prepostion.
In many cases, the particle may come before or after the object.
The teacher marked two students down/ marked down two students because they answered the wrong question in the exam. (example from the book English Phrasal verbs in use - advanced)
If the object is very long the object usually comes after the particle. And when the object is a personal pronoun (like I, you, he, she, etc.) the particle always comes after the pronoun (I'll take you out).
Ofcourse some exceptions exist: look for, look after, contend with, etc. These verbs must have the object after the particle even if it is a pronoun. (I will look after him)
Ok that was the dull part. Now some funny stuf.
Probably you know these words:
standby
back-up
onset
input
overkill
make-up
These words are called phrasal nouns. It is actually a verb combined with a particple. Some such nouns have a corresponding phrasal verb others do not. (There is no verb to kill over, but there is a verb to stand by).
The difficulty with phrasal nouns can be the use of a hyphen (-). If the noun starts with the particle, then the phrasal noun is never written with a hyphen (like: input). If the particple comes second, then there is sometimes a hyphen between two parts of the phrasal noun (especially if that particle is in or up).
Some phrasal nouns are not so familiar. Have you ever heard of:
stowaway
letdown
knockabout
walkout
This is all for today.
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