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Exercises

88.1 Put the following sentences into slightly more formal English by replacing the phrasal verbs
with their formal equivalents.
1 They have recently set up a committee on teenage smoking.
2 We try to set aside some money for our holiday every week.
3 Set aside all your negative feelings and listen with an open mind.
4 If we hadn't set off so late, we would have arrived on time.
5 The government's unpopular proposals set off a wave of protests.

88.2 Write down three nouns which could follow each of the verbs. Remember that their
meanings might be different depending on the noun which follows.
Example: put in money /a comment /a telephone system
1 put out 3 put off 5 put up 7 put away
2 put forward 4 put across 6 put on 8 put up with

Complete the responses to the following statements or questions using any appropriate
phrasal verb from A or B opposite.
Example: He's always so rude. I wouldn't put up with it if I were you.
1 How should we publicise our play?
2 This room is in a terrible mess.
3 What time do we have to leave for the airport tomorrow?
4 Any chance of a bed on your floor this weekend?
5 Why have you suddenly lost interest in the project?
6 What is Geoff planning to do when he gets his business degree?

Using the expressions in C and D opposite, reword the following sentences without changing
their meaning.
1 He never wants to do anything in a new or different way.
2 He's bound to draw the obvious conclusion if you keep on behaving like that.
3 Her aim is to become Prime Minister.
4 I find her terribly irritating.
5 It's sound business advice not to risk everything at once.
6 Please concentrate on the problem in hand.
7 She is determined to get a seat in Parliament.
8 She threw petrol on the rubbish and put a match to it.
9 She's very good at stating things succinctly.
10 The building started burning because of terrorist action.
11 This is the first time I've ever been to the southern hemisphere.
12 We spent most of our evenings discussing the problems of the world rather than
studying.
13 You really should be firm with him or there'll be trouble later.
14 If the teacher doesn't behave properly, the children certainly won't.

88.5 Choose ten of the phrasal verbs and other expressions with set and put which you
particularly want to learn and write them down in example sentences of your own.

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