{"id":71801,"date":"2019-08-26T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71801"},"modified":"2019-08-26T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:29:34","slug":"phrasal-verbs-and-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-and-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs And Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Phrasal verb<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A complex verb consisting of a simple verb and an adverb particle.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: <strong><em>make up, take off, turn on, do up, fill up, run over, take in and put away.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The particle in a phrasal verb is always stressed. Note that it is possible to move the particle of a phrasal verb to the end of the sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They <strong>called<\/strong> the teacher <strong>up<\/strong>. (OR They<strong> called up<\/strong> the teacher.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A phrasal verb differs from a prepositional verb. The preposition in a prepositional verb cannot be moved to the end. Examples are: fall off, call on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They <strong>called on<\/strong> the teacher. (BUT NOT They called the teacher on.)<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>fell off<\/strong> the bridge. (BUT NOT He fell the bridge off.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Idioms<\/h2>\n<p>A fixed expression whose meaning is not guessable from the meanings of its parts.<strong> Idioms<\/strong> are usually special to one language and cannot be translated word for word though related languages may share some idioms.<\/p>\n<p>Examples include <em>a fish out of water (a person struggling in an unfamiliar environment), let the cat out of bag (reveal a secret) and kick the bucket (die)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. However, informal spoken English is often very idiomatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phrasal verb A complex verb consisting of a simple verb and an adverb particle. Examples are: make up, take off, turn on, do up, fill up, run over, take in and put away. The&#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":[21],"tags":[895,186,316,3],"class_list":["post-71801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-idiom","tag-idioms-2","tag-phrasal-verb","tag-phrasal-verbs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801","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=71801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71802,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801\/revisions\/71802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}