Thursday 3 March 2011

Useful for myself (8)

ဒါေလးေတြလဲ မွတ္ထားသင့္တယ္။
single-word verb
look
direct your eyes in a certain direction
You must look before you leap.
multi-word verbs
prepositional verbs
look after
take care of
Who is looking after the baby?
phrasal verbs
look up
search for and find information in a reference book
You can look up my number in the telephone directory.
phrasal-prepositional verbs
look forward to
anticipate with pleasure
I look forward to meeting you.



phrasal verbs
meaning
examples

direct object
intransitive phrasal verbs
get up
rise from bed
I don't like to get up.

break down
cease to function
He was late because his car broke down.

transitive phrasal verbs
put off
postpone
We will have to put off
the meeting.
turn down
refuse
They turned down
my offer.

 
transitive phrasal verbs are
separable
They
turned

down
my offer.
They
turned
my offer
down.



direct object pronouns must go between the two parts of transitive phrasal verbs
John
switched

on
the radio.
These are all possible.
John
switched
the radio
on.

John
switched
it
on.

John
switched

on
it.
This is not possible.
 
  
prepositional verbs
meaning
examples

direct object
believe in
have faith in the existence of
I believe in
God.
look after
take care of
He is looking after
the dog.
talk about
discuss
Did you talk about
me?
wait for
await
John is waiting for
Mary.


prepositional verbs are inseparable
Who is looking after the baby?
This is possible.
Who is looking the baby after?
This is not possible.
 

phrasal-prepositional verbs
meaning
examples

direct object
get on with
have a friendly relationship with
He doesn't get on with
his wife.
put up with
tolerate
I won't put up with
your attitude.
look forward to
anticipate with pleasure
I look forward to
seeing you.
run out of
use up, exhaust
We have run out of
eggs.

  
phrasal-prepositional verbs are
inseparable
We
ran out of
fuel.
We
ran out of
it.

N.B.. All are completely copied from http://www.englishclub.com thanks to the Team of English Club.
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1 comment:

ေမဓာ၀ီ said...

ဦးဇင္း မေန႔က တေန႔ထဲနဲ႔ အမ်ားႀကီးတင္လိုက္ေတာ့ ကုန္ေအာင္ေတာင္ မက်က္ရေသးဘူး ဘုရား။ ထပ္တင္ေပးတာေတာ့ ဦးဇင္းကို ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။ ဖတ္သူက အလ်င္မီေအာင္ မဖတ္ႏိုင္ဘူး ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္ ဘုရား။