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Phrasal verbs are “multi-word verbs”. These verbs consist of a basic verb + another word or words. The other word (s) can be prepositions and/or adverbs that modify or change their meaning. For example ‘give up’ is a phrasal verb that means ‘stop doing’ something, which is very different from ‘give’. In the article that you have just read there are a few phrasal verbs like :
- pull off : Manage to do something difficult or tricky/to steer or turn a vehicle off the road
- roll down : roll down (something) or roll (something) down : to move (something) down especially by turning handle
- head for : to go or cause to go (towards)
- woke up : arose from sleep/realized
Now look through the unit of Health and Medicine, figure out the phrasal verbs that you come across and list them.
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Solution
Some more phrasal verbs from the Unit are given below :
* Article on 'Sleep ' cut down goes on
* Fundamentals of Laughter Yoga fall into bothering about
* The Muddlehead went about settled down looked out
* on Ashok Kumar came up cooled down moved back paly off went on
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