phrasal verbs

Cut off your fringe and set off your eyes

Phrasal verbs with "off"

Do you know how to use "set off" and "cut off"? What about "put off"? Find out by doing the exercise.

Putting it off

Phrasal verbs can be hard to understand and easily confused, even though they are made up of easy-to-understand components.

Suck it up!

Despite several attempts using the latest technology, BP can’t find a way to suck up the bloody great oil plume that’s heading towards the Florida Keys.

(ugs.) riesig

Ölteppich

"We will have to step ___ efforts to improve sales this month."

Back, down or up?

Look out!

I wasn’t surprised that people wrote in to query our answer, but I was surprised at how convinced they were that they were right.

in Zweifel ziehen

Multi-word verbs

In this test, we focus on multi-word verbs. These are verbs that are made up of a verb and an adverb or a preposition. Do you know the difference between "turn up" and "turn out"?

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