The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book : For ESL and EFL Students

Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup, showoff, etc.) or adjectives (spaced-out, broken-down, stressed-out, and many others) is essential to ESL students. Updated information includes: the most commonly used phrasal verbs; activities and examples that reflect our current technology and the world around us; an expanded introduction for the teacher with a thorough breakdown and explanation of phrasal verbs; and, a discussion of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs in Unit I, and more. This book’s hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises will be extremely useful to ESL students who are preparing for TOEFL or who simply wish to improve their English. Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; To the Teacher; To the Student; 1. Definition of phrasal verbs, separable/inseparable, and transitive/intransitive; 2. Phrasal verbs and do, does, and did; 3. Three-word phrasal verbs; 4. Present and past continuous phrasal verbs; 5. Stress in two-word phrasal verbs, part 1; 6. Stress in three-word phrasal verbs, part 1; 7. Separable phrasal verbs with long objects; 8. Present perfect phrasal verbs; 9. Two-word phrasal verbs that require a preposition when used with an object, part; 10. Phrasal verbs used as nouns; 11. Phrasal verbs used in compound nouns; 12. Past perfect phrasal verbs13. Passive phrasal verbs, part 1; 14. Participle adjectives formed from phrasal verbs, part 1; 15. Phrasal verbs and will or be going to; 16. Phrasal verbs with gerund objects, part 1; 17. Adverbs and phrasal verbs; 18. Phrasal verbs and can, could, will, and would; 19. Phrasal verbs and the adverb right; 20. Phrasal verbs followed by the -ing form; 21. Phrasal verbs and should and ought to; 22. The particle up and the adverbs right and all; 23. Two-word phrasal verbs that require a preposition when used with an object, part 2; 24. Stress and phrasal verbs used as nouns25. Phrasal verbs and have to, have got to, and must; 26. Phrasal verbs and the adverb back; 27. Phrasal verbs with the particle off and the adverb right; 28. Passive phrasal verbs, part 2; 29. Phrasal verbs and might, may, and can; 30. Participle adjectives formed from phrasal verbs, part 2; 31. Phrasal verbs and gerund subjects; 32. Phrasal verbs with the particle out; 33. Phrasal verbs and midsentence adverbs; 34. Stress in two- and three-word phrasal verbs, part 2; 35. Gerund phrasal verbs; 36. Phrasal verbs with the particle down; 37. Phrasal verbs used as nouns, part 338. The verb keep and adverbs and adverbials showing degrees of variability; 39. Passive phrasal verbs, part 3; 40. Gerund phrasal verbs vs. phrasal verbs followed by the -ing form; 41. Two-word phrasal verbs with the particle in that require into when used with an object; 42. Phrasal verbs with get, part 1; 43. Modals and present perfect phrasal verbs; 44. Participle adjectives and passive phrasal verbs with the verb get; 45. Phrasal verbs with the verb turn; 46. Stress in phrasal verbs with the particle into; 47. Particles used without verbs; 48. Modals and present perfect passive phrasal verbs49. Combinations of get, right, back, and to; 50. Keep at it!; Answers; Index Presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Updated information includes the most commonly used phrasal verbs, hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises to increase fluency and prep for the TOEFL, and more