Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs are everywhere in spoken English. Natives prefer “turn down” to “reduce”.

• Learn them in context, not as lists: “turn down the music”.
• Many are separable: “turn it down” ✓, “turn down it” ✗.
• Same verb, many meanings: “get up / get on / get over”.

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Honestly, how do you put up with that noise?

En serio, ¿cómo aguantas ese ruido?

💡 'Put up with' es aguantar. Las tres palabras van siempre juntas: nunca se separan.

En serio, ¿cómo aguantas ese ruido?

Say it in English, then check yourself.

Something went wrong last week and you have to explain it tomorrow. Under pressure the single-word verbs arrive first and the phrasal ones go missing.

1. 1Take one thing that went wrong and say it aloud using a phrasal verb.
2. 2Say that same sentence again, swapping the phrasal verb for its single-word twin.
3. 3Say which of the two you will use tomorrow, and who the other one is for.

Nothing here is listening or marking you — this is your own rehearsal, and you tick a move when you have said it out loud. For live correction, take the same situation to Rumi, your AI Tutor, in the role-play step below.

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