Phrasal verbs + Exercices
Phrasal verbs
Sentences
1- My brother never backs me up. He always says I am wrong
2- The car broke down when on our way to Agadir. It took us two days to repair it.
3- Leila broke off her engagement to Yassine because of some differences in the way of thinking
4- We’ve been waiting for her for twenty minutes but she didn’t show up.
5- My mother all the time brings up that matter of my poor school results.
6- The sky looks a bit cloudy now but I think it will clear up
7- Ahmed is feeling depressed these days because he asked Maria for marriage but she turned him down.
8- When I was looking for my passport I came accross these old photographs.
9- The teacher always asks students to look up difficult words in the dictionary.
10- I said a secret to my friend but to my surprise he gave it away.
11- When the teacher asked the student about the talk he made up a story about being sick during the holiday.
12- The outgoing President G.Bush will hand over authority to Obama next week.
Definitions
a- support morally or verbally g- arrive
b- find by chance h- give it or say it to someone
c- search in a list i- become fine after rains or clouds
d- invent from imagination j- surrender or give responsibility to …..
e- reject / refuse k- terminate or finish
f- mention a topic l- cease or stop to function properly.