bbclearningenglishFACE UP TO PHRASALS

LOOK AFTER
#Meaning: if you look after something or someone, you take care of them and make sure they have what they need.

#Grammar: This phrasal verb must have an object. You can not separate the verb from its particle.
She looked after the baby - RIGHT
She looked after it - RIGHT
She looked the baby after - WRONG
She looked it after - WRONG

#Example sentence: I can't come to the cinema tonight - my sister's ill, so I'm going to stay at home
and look after her.
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#Synonyms: take care of, tend (to)
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TURN INTO
#Meaning: If something turns into something, it becomes something different.

#Grammar: This phrasal verb must have an object. You can not separate the verb from its particle. The
object is not usually a pronoun.

The water turned into ice - RIGHT
The water turned into it - RIGHT (this is rare)

The water turned ice into - WRONG
The water turned it into - WRONG

#Example sentence: I'm scared of him. When he drinks too much beer he turns into a crazy madman.
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#Synonyms: become, change (into) transform (into), evolve (into), develop (into), metamorphosise (into)
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HANG UP

#Meaning - If you hang up, you end a telephone call by breaking the connection between yourself and the person you are speaking to.

#Grammar - This phrasal verb does not usually have an object (except telephone or phone). You can separate the verb from its particle, but not if the object is a pronoun.

She hung up - RIGHT
She hung up the telephone - RIGHT (this is rare)
She hung the phone up - RIGHT (this is rare)
She hung up it - WRONG

#Example sentence: How rude - I was in the middle of telling her a story and she just hung up!
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#Synonyms: ring off
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