I have a friend who uses “hark back” a lot in conversation. She harks back to past news events. She harks back to old times. She harks back to something I told her last month or last year. My first ...

In the latest episode of The List Show, we're diving deep into a few of our favorite phrasal gaffes, from death nails and tenderhooks to bold-faced lies and beyond.

Phrasal verbs represent a practically limitless group of verbs that can be combined with short adverbs or prepositions to produce new meanings. Here are some examples: Phrasal verbs are ubiquitous in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study attempts to shed new light on one of the most notoriously challenging aspects of English language instruction—the English phrasal ...

Learn phrasal verbs and sound like a native speaker! This English lesson uses song analysis to help you master common phrases ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have a question you want us to answer? You can send us your questions to learning.english@bbc.co.uk Alejandra has sent us a question. She wants ...

A FOLLOWER of my Facebook page for Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Maria Fernandez, told me in a post a few weeks ago that she finds phrasal verbs deceiving: “I get confused trying to distinguish them ...

The phrasal verb 'take off' has many meanings. Let's find out more about how to use them. To 'take off' is to begin to fly. The past form is 'took off'. The aeroplane took off on time. Another meaning ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper focuses on three aspects of phrasal verbs. Firstly, to what extent examples of phrasal verbs and associated forms in Shakespeare's ...

Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word like 'wake up' and 'look forward to'. There are hundreds of them in English and they can be quite tricky... But don't freak out! Georgie is going to ...