PHRASAL VERB

Phrasal Verbs with PUT

1. PUT ACROSS
(separable) to communicate; convey effectively

During the meeting, management put across the message that our concerns were insignificant.

2. PUT AWAY
(separable) to discard; renounce

Let’s put away our worries, and live for the moment.

3. PUT AWAY
(separable) to consume

I watched Max put away several hamburgers in just a few minutes.

4. PUT AWAY
(separable) to confine; incarcerate; imprison

The government put Sherman away for a year for having the wrong information on his website.

5. PUT BACK
(separable) to place something where it was previously

When you finish the milk, please don't put the empty container back in the fridge.

6. PUT DOWN
(separable) to kill a sick or injured animal (usually out of mercy)

The vet said it was necessary to put down the race horse because of its broken leg.

7.PUT DOWN
(separable) to insult or make disparaging remarks about someone

I feel sorry for Max. Everytime he and Mary get together with their friends Mary puts him down in front of everybody.

8. PUT OFF
(separable) to postpone

Many students put off doing their homework until it is almost too late.

9. PUT ON
(separable) to dress oneself with; to wear; to don

Mary put her best dress on.

10. PUT ON
(separable) to produce; perform

The theater group put on a great show.

11. PUT ON
(separable) to fool; mislead for amusement

You’re putting me on!

12. PUT OUT
(separable) to extinguish

The firefighters put the fire out.

13. PUT OUT
(separable) to publish; issue

The government put out a news brief to misinform the public.

14. PUT OUT
(separable) to exert, extend

The workers put out considerable effort to get the job done on time.

15. PUT OUT
(separable) to expel

Please put the cat out.

16. PUT THROUGH
(separable) to implement; bring to a successful conclusion

The committee was unable to put through any reforms on campaign financing.

17. PUT THROUGH
(separable) to make a telephone connection for

Operator, put me through to the president!

18. PUT UP
(separable) to raise; erect; build

The construction workers put the buildings up in just a few days.

19. PUT UP
(separable) to accommodate; provide food a shelter to

The government put the refugees up in temporary housing.

20. PUT UP WITH
(inseparable) to tolerate
Max has great difficulty putting up with noisy children.

Phrasal verb with TAKE
TAKE

-1. The lecture was rather boring and I didn't TAKE IN much of what the lecturer said.
2. The jacket was far too big around the shoulders, so I had it TAKEN IN so that I could wear it.
-3. He TOOK UP squash as he felt he had to lose some weight.
4. Business is good so the company is taking on extra staff.
5. We invited Sarah to our party but all her time is taken up with looking after her new baby.
6. If you take 4 away from 12 you get 8.
-7. That piece of music really took me back (to my schooldays).
8. Her singing career had just begun to take off.
9. She took too much on and made herself ill.
10. Digging in the garden certainly takes it out of me these days.
-11. This desk takes up too much room.
12. She watched his lips carefully and took her cue from him.
13. The minister took up office in December.
14. Banks need to take on board the views of their customers.
-15. We lit the fire to take the chill off the room.


ANSWER KEY:
1.Absorb information-in
2.Make clothes smaller-in
3.Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.-up
4.hire or engage staff-on
5.To be taken up with something is to be very busy doing something.-up
6.to subtract a number (= remove it from another number)-away
7.If something takes you back, it makes you remember a period or an event-back
8.to suddenly start to be successful or popular-off
9.to accept a particular job or responsibility-on
10.to make someone very tired.-it out
11.to fill an amount of space or time-up
12.to take notice of someone's words or behaviour so that you know what you should do-cue
13.to start an official job-up
14.to understand or accept an idea or a piece of information-on
15.to make something slightly less cold-off