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1 – MATCH THE VERBS IN COLUMN A WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS IN COLUMN B

A B

PUT ABOUT discourage

PUT ACROSS provide accommodation

PUT DOWN TO postpone

PUT FORWARD tolerate _

PUT OFF pretend _

PUT OFF suggest, propose _

PUT ON cause to be understood

PUT OUT extinguish _

PUT OUT start, cause to circulate _

PUT UP inconvenience

PUT UP WITH attribute to

2 – FILL THE GAPS WITH ONE OF THE PHRASAL VERBS ABOVE IN THE CORRECT TENSE

1.- Don let me (you) going to see it I mean, the film does have its good points 2.- At the meeting someone the idea that there should be a student representative on the committee

3.- He did seem a bit short-tempered, I agree I (it) overwork

4.- I’m just not prepared to your inefficiency any longer You’re fired!

5.- Thank you, I’d love to stay for dinner, as long as I won’t (you) at all

6.- We’ll just have to (the meeting) until everyone is back from holiday

7.- The part of the course I enjoyed least was philosophy It wasn’t very well by the lecturer

8.- If my sister can (me) it’ll save the cost of a hotel room for the night

9.- She (it) that she was thinking of leaving the company and, as a result, she received several offers from a rival firm

10.- He didn’t really hurt his leg He limped a bit but he was only (it) to get our sympathy 11.- She couldn’t the humiliation of being rejected by the casting director for the second time 12.- Due to the strong wind, it took over 15 hours to - the fire in that wood

13.- You shouldn’t going to the dentist any longer It’s urgent

14.- Don’t (your failure) bad luck You didn’t work hard enough

15.- Most people (him) as Chairman of the committee

P H R A S A L V E R B S - 3

P U T

EXERCISE ONE

1- Put about start, make circulate 2- Put across cause to be understood 3- Put down to attribute to

4- Put forward suggest, propose 5- Put off discourage

6- Put off postpone

7- Put on pretend

8- Put out extinguish

9- put out inconvenience

10- put up provide accommodation 11- put up with tolerate

EXERTCISE 2

1- put you off

2- put forward

3- put it down to

4- put up with

5- put you out

6- put off

7- put across

8- put me up

9- put it out

10- putting it on

11- put up with

12- put out

13- put off

14- put your failure down to

15- put him forward