THE ULTIMATE PHRASAL VERB BOOK - Noel's ESL eBook Library

4. We had planned to go to France on our vacation, but we ________ ________ going to Spain
instead.
5. Will you ________ ________! If we don't leave soon we're going to be late.
6. Mark hates his job, and he comes home every night and ________ it _______ ________ his
family.
7. My doctor got the test results from the lab, and she ________ them ________ very carefully.
8. ________ your coat ________. It's cold outside.
9. Don't wait until the last minute to make your vacation airline reservations. You have to _______
________.
10. The detective didn't believe that the gun had ________ ________ accidentally.
11. I hated my older brother when I was a kid. He always ________ ________ me.
12. How are we going to get $500 in two days? We need to ______ _____ a good plan.
13. I didn't understand everything the computer shop guy said, but it had something to ________
________ memory.
14. Jim tries to answer every question the teacher asks. He's always_____ ______.
15. That meeting was so boring. It seemed like it was going to _____ _____ forever.
16. The police officer must be off duty; he doesn't ________ his uniform ________.
27. FOCUS ON: phrasal verbs with the particle
off and the adverb right
The particle off is used in many phrasal verbs to say that something is separated or
removed:
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The cup handle broke. (The handle is broken, but it is still attached to the cup.) The
cup handle broke off. (The handle is no longer attached to the cup.)
Right, discussed in Section 19, is often used with these phrasal verbs to indicate that
the action of the verb happened quickly: