Spoken English: Flourish Your Language

II Phrasal Verbs

phrasal verbs look up search for a

find

information

in a reference

book

119

11

You can nd

look up my

number in

the tele

-phone di

-rectory.

phrasal

-prepositional

verbs

look forward anticipate I look for

to with pleasure ward to

Some of the phrasal verbs are: -
Account for = explain

meeting

you.

Example: They had to account for all the money that had gone
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Act on = take action because of something like information re-
ceived
Example: The police were acting on a tip from an informer and
caught the gang red-handed.
Aim at = tatzJet
Example: The magazine is aimed at teenagers.
Answer back = reply rudely to someone in authority
Example: Her mother was shocked when she started answering
her back and refusing to help.
Ask for = provoke a negative reaction
Example: You're asking for trouble.
Ask in = invite somebody into your house
Example: Jon's at the door. Ask him in.
Ask out = invite someone for a date