Turn (11) - Increase prices, taxes, duties, etc.
Turn against
- Stop liking and start disliking Put up with
- Tolerate
Turn away
- Not allow someone to enter a place
Turn down Go (53)
- Reduce volume, temperature, etc. Go about
- Reject an offer, invitation, etc. - Deal with something
- Circulate
Turn in
- Go to bed Go across
- Move to another side or place
Turn into
- Become Go after
- Chase, try to get
Turn off
- Stop a machine Go against
- Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
Turn on
- Cause someone to feel attraction or pleasure Go ahead
- Start a machine - Proceed
- Attack
Go ahead with
Turn out - Proceed
- Produce
- Produce an unexpected result Go along with
- Stop a light - Accept a decision or suggestion
- Attend
Go around
Turn over - Circulate
- Give to the authorities - Be or have enough of something
- Visit
Turn to
- Try to get help Go at
- Take up a habit - Attack or approach something with vigour
Turn up Go away
- Appear - Leave a place or disappear
- Increase volume, temperature, etc.
Go back
- Have a long history
Put (16) Go back on
Put across - Break a promise
- Communicate, convey a message
Go before
Put away - Precede
- Put something back in the correct place
- Put someone in prison Go below
- Leave the top deck of a ship
Put back
- Rearrange something for a later time Go by
- The passing of time
Put by - Trust or depend on for correct information
- Save for the future - Pay a short visit, call
Put down Go down
- Kill an animal because it's old, ill, etc. - Decrease, get smaller
- Stop holding (but withdraw support gently) - Sink
- Sunset
Put down for - Be sent to to prison
- Commit to make a payment - Become recorded as or known as
- Be eaten or swallowed
Put down to - Fall to the ground
- Give as an explanation - Happen, take place
- Stop working, especially computers
Put in - Become dimmer
- Install - Be received by people, in terms of their reaction
Put in for Go down on
- Make a request - Perform oral sex
Put off Go down to
- Postpone - Be defeated
- Stop liking something or somebody
Go down with
Put on - Fall ill
- Get fat - Find acceptance
- Deceive, lie Go for
- Start wearing - Attack
- Be attracted to
Put out - Choose, select
- Broadcast - Try to get
- Disturb or trouble someone - Have something favourable
- Extinguish a cigarette, fire, etc. - Pass for or serve as
Put through Go forth
- Connect someone by phone - Leave a place
- Travel abroad, leave a place
Put towards
- Make a financial contribution Go forward
- Move clocks ahead
Put up - Progress
- Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days.
Go in - Go on a journey
- Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc. - Become converted
- Fit - Change to something different
- Disappear, become obscured by a cloud
- Attack Go past
- Pass without stopping
Go in for
- Enter a competition or sit an exam Go round
- Support, advocate - Be or have enough of something
- Like, have an interest in - Circulate
- Make a career choice - Visit
Go in with Go through
- Form a union or alliance - Experience
- Join, enter - Read again
- Examine, search
Go into - Do something in a certain way or following certain procedures
- Discuss in some detail - Explain
- Enter a profession, hospital, trade, market - Be approved formally or sanctioned
- Begin a speech or description - Enter
- Be dedicated or devoted - Consume or spend
- Be contained in a larger number - Perform or carry something out
Go it Go through with
- Behave in a reckless way - Do or complete something you've agreed to
- Move or drive very fast
Go together
Go it alone - Harmonize or be compatible
- Do something without help
Go towards
Go off - Contibute
- Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
- Go bad Go under
- Start to dislike - Go bankrupt
- Leave a place - Lose consciousness
- Take place, follow a plan or pattern - Sink
- Stop working (electric/electronic equipment)
Go up
Go off with - Rise or climb
- Elope, run away with someone - Approach
- Steal - Be built
- Be heard
Go on - Be promoted
- Continue
- Happen Go up to
- Start doing or taking something - Approach
- Be guided - Attend a university
- Be nearly a certain period of time - Reach
- Progress
- Spend money Go with
- Start working (electric/electronic equipment) - Combine nicely
- Accompany
Go on about - Accept, agree to
- Talk too much - Date, have a relationship with
Go on at Go without
- Pester, try to make someone do something by repeatedly asking or - Not have
suggesting - Cope without having something
Go on to
- Proceed
Take (16)
Go on with Take after
- Continue doing - Look like, resemble
Go one Take apart
- A way of encouraging someone - Take something to pieces
Go out Take aside
- Stop burning, be extinguished - Get someone alone to talk to them
- Leave a place
- Go on strike Take away
- Become infashionable - Remove
- Move backwards, of a tide
- Be eliminated in a competition Take back
- Be transmitted - Make someone nostalgic
- Be sent - Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong
- Intend
Take down
Go out for - Make notes or write down in full
- Become a candidate, apply for something - Remove
Go out to Take in
- Feel sympathy with someone - Absorb information
- Deceive
Go out with - Make clothes smaller
- Have a relationship with
Take it
Go over - Accept criticism
- Look at something, revise
- Visit Take it out on
- Be approved or accepted - Abuse someone because you're angry
- Repeat or explain
- Clean Take it upon yourself
- Take responsibility, often without consulting other people
Go over to
Take off = transitive verb + pronoun (prevent me) + preposition (from) + verb-ing
- Make great progress form (seeing) + pronoun (her).
- Reduce the price of an item
- When a plane departs or leaves the ground
Take on
- Allow passengers on a ship or plane
- Assume a responsibility
- Employ
Take out
- Borrow a library book
- Borrow money from a bank or other official lender
- Extract or remove
- Go out socially with someone, especially a date
- Obtain insurance
- Kill, murder
Take over
- Assume control of a company or organisation
Take to
- Make a habit of something
Take up
- Fill or occupy time or space
- Make clothes shorter
- Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.
Look (17)
Look after
- Take care
Look back
- Think about the past
Look down on
- Have a low opinion of
Look for
- Try to find
Look forward to
- Wait for or anticipate something pleasant
Look in
- Make a quick visit
Look in on
- Visit briefly to see if everything's all right
Look into
- Research, investigate
Look on
- Watch something like a crime without helping
Look on as
- Consider, regard
Look out
- Be careful
Look over
- Inspect
Look round
- Inspect a house
Look to
- Expect, hope
Look up
- Consult a reference work (dictionary, phonebook, etc.) for a specific piece
of information.
- Improve
- Find, trace an old friend
Look up to
- Respect
Look upon as
Consider, regard
“The teacher tried to dictate to his class what is the right thing to do”
= transitive verb + preposition(dictate to) + direct object (his class) + wh-
clause
“My friends called for me when the time came”
= transitive verb + preposition (called for) + pronoun (me) + wh-clause
“Watch out that you don’t hit your head on the low beam”
= intransitive verb + adverb (watch out) + that-clause
Phrasal verbs combined with verb-ing forms
“You can’t prevent me from seeing her”