{"id":2528,"date":"2017-10-06T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:32:56","slug":"phrasal-verbs-with-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-with-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs With Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common short verbs are often used with prepositions and adverb particles to make two-word verbs. These are called phrasal verbs or prepositional verbs.<\/p>\n<p>Phrasal verbs are especially common in informal speech and writing.<\/p>\n<p>In English there are several phrasal verbs using the word turn. Can you use them correctly?<\/p>\n<h2>Phrasal Verbs With Turn<\/h2>\n<h3>Turn around<\/h3>\n<p>To turn around while driving is to change direction.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We turned around when we realized that we were going the wrong way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When a failing business turns around it becomes successful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new manager worked hard to turn the company around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn away<\/h3>\n<p>To turn somebody away is to prevent them from entering a place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can\u2019t go to that club if you are under 18. They will turn you away at the door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn down<\/h3>\n<p>To turn volume down is to reduce it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will you turn the music down? I can\u2019t work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To turn down an offer is to reject it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can\u2019t believe that you turned down a great offer like that.<\/li>\n<li>Peter asked Jane out to dinner but she turned him down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn in<\/h3>\n<p>To turn in an assignment is to submit it to your teacher.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have to turn in my essay tomorrow and I haven\u2019t started writing it yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turn in can also mean go to bed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have to finish this project so I am going to turn in late tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To turn somebody in is to deliver them to the police.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The gangster was turned in by members of his own gang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn into<\/h3>\n<p>To turn into something is to become it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By dint of his hard work, he turned into a successful businessman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn on<\/h3>\n<p>To turn a device on is to start it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should I turn the heating on?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn on<\/h3>\n<p>If something turns you on, it makes you sexually aroused.<\/p>\n<h3>Turn-off<\/h3>\n<p>If something turns you off, it makes you lose interest in it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loud and bright colours always turn me off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn out<\/h3>\n<p>An expression used to refer to the surprising end result of something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We trusted him but it turned out that he was a spy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turn up<\/h3>\n<p>To turn up is to arrive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I invited all of my friends for my birthday but none of them turned up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common short verbs are often used with prepositions and adverb particles to make two-word verbs. These are called phrasal verbs or prepositional verbs. Phrasal verbs are especially common in informal speech and writing. In&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verbs-for-class-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}