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Phrasal Verb Groups

Actions

Debate(& Study)

Relationships(& Feelings)

Time & Opportunity

Moderation Negotiation

Relationships

Relationships I Counting on you

Fall out with a friend

Make up with someone you fell out with

Look up to an idol

Fall for someone you love

Put someone down

Put up with someone you don’t like

Help out a friend in need

Give your time to someone

Look after someone

Pay someone a compliment

To go out with someone

To break up with someone

To call on somone

Ask/ take someone out on a date

To give into someone’s demands

To back up a colleague’s suggestion

To offer your condolences

To give up on someone (lose faith in them)

Pick on someone

Let someone down

Keep at someone

Fed up with someone

To get along with someone

Get through to someone

To bring someone down

To bring someone up

To catch up with someone

Relationships II To check someone out

To cheer someone up

To cut in on a conversation

To cut someone off

To drop someone off

To get back at someone

To get together

To give someone away

To go after someone

To go against someone

To grow apart

To hang out with someone

To hold someone back

To keep someone out all night

To let someone in

To look down on someone

To look out for someone

To pay someone back

To run into someone

To set someone up

To take after someone

To work something out with someone

Moderation

Moderation I To cut back on something

To cut down on something

To cut out something

To run out of something

To use something up

To turn/ switch something on

To turn/ switch something off

To turn something down/ up

To put something out

To keep something up

To keep on doing something

To hold something back

To hang up

To fill up

To fill out

To fill in

To drop back

To do away with something

To cut off something

To cross something out

To draw a line under something

Debate, Argue & Study

Debate, Argue & Study I To point out something

To hear someone out

To see someone’s point

To get your point across

To make a point

To make a case for/ To argue your case/ to argue your point

To back something up

To break something down

To bring something up

To figure something out

To go back over something

To look through something

To look into something

To look something over

To look something up

To make something up

To mix something up

To pick something out

To run through something

To think something over

To try out something

To get down to something

To check over something

To put something to the test

Time & Opportunity

Time & Opportunity I To Clock in *

To Clock out *

To take time off *

To Move up

To be pressed for time *

To Fit in *

To Press on

To Run out of time*

To get on in life

To get on with life*

To set off by *

To carry on

To Get together

To Hang out

To Mess around

To Hang on.*

To kill time

To make time for

To call off

To carry forward

To Fall behind on

To take up

To grow up

Time & Opportunity II To put off

To go through

To give up

To hold up

To call off

To bring up (someone)

Negotiation

Negotiations To bring in

To bring on board

To measure up to

To put forward

To turn down

To scrap

To come off

To come together

To break down

To wrap up

To give up

To look after

To bring up

To come up with

To write off

To set aside

To run out of

To make do with

To back down from

To call up

To set up

To throw something out there

To throw someone out