prepositions and phrasal verbs

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prepositions and phrasal verbs

• prepositions of place
• prepositions of movement
• adjective/noun/verb preposition combinations
• phrasal verbs

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up
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up

• increasing
• go up put up
• completing and concluding
• write up set up give up
• approaching
• come up
• disrupting and damaging
• break up mess up

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down

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down

• decreasing and reducing
• come down cut down
• collapsing, failing and ending
• fall down turn down close down
• writing and recording
• take down write down
• controlling and suppressing
• keep down

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on

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on

• continuing
• keep on go on
• thinking or talking about a topic
• comment on decide on concentrate on
• attaching and adding
• add on put on
• operating
• switch on turn on

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off

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off

• completing and finishing
• departure, exploding
• removing, rejecting, cancelling
• decreasing, consuming

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in

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in

• entering, arriving and penetrating
• come in, get in, break in
• filling and absorbing
• fill in, colour in, take in (information)
• gathering and collecting
• take in (object), bring in
• remaining in a place
• sit in lock in stay in

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out

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out (i)

• leaving, removing and excluding
• go out, take out, cut out, throw out
• searching and discovering
• check out, find out, work out,
• increasing in size or extent
• grow out, stretch out, branch out
• disappearing and diminishing
• fade out, phase out, stamp out, put out

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out (ii)

• distributing
• give out, hand out, send out, run out
• supporting and helping
• help out, point out
• attacking, criticising and protesting
• hit out, speak out

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over

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over

• considering
• look over, think over, talk over
• communicating
• put over, get over
• changing and transferring
• change over, hand over
• controlling
• take over

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under

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under

• (not used in phrasal verbs)

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through

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through

• Associated with difficult / unpleasant things
• overcoming an illness or difficult period
• come through, get through, pull through
• forcing an opinion
• push through, force through, put through

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(a)round

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(a)round

• avoiding
• get (a)round
• being inactive
• hang (a)round, sit (a)round, get (a)round to
• changing opinions
• bring (a)round, come (a)round

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across
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across

• communicating
• get across, put across

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other particles

• away
• movement from via
• apart
• separation and disintegration disfare
  distruggere
• together
• unity and groups organisation insieme

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