Phrasal verbs
Phrasal verbs
Put off, look after, give up, take up. The most common phrasal verbs at B2 — with rules: separable, inseparable and three exceptions.
Separable phrasal verbs
👉 The object can go between verb and particle or after both:
I put off the meeting = I put the meeting off.
She took up yoga = She took yoga up.
👉 With a pronoun, it MUST go in the middle: put it off (not *put off it*).
Inseparable phrasal verbs
👉 The object always comes after the whole verb:
She looks after her grandmother.
I came across an old photo.
We ran out of coffee.
❌ look the kids after — never separate inseparable verbs!
The most common B2 set
put off = postpone; take up = start a hobby; give up = quit.
look after = care for; look forward to = anticipate; put up with = tolerate.
run out of = have none left; come across = find by chance; get over = recover.
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