Between the words ‘take’ and ‘back’, we have inserted ‘it’ and still retained the original meaning. Other common separable phrasal verbs include; Use up. Turn down. Set up. Put off.

For example if you look at something, your eyes are focused on it, but if you look after something or someone, you take care of them. Phrasal verbs follow one of five different patterns.

Some verbs come in sets of two or three words. They call these phrasal verbs. Let’s take a closer look… A phrasal verb is a verb that has a base verb and one or two particles. She looked up ...

In Learners' Questions in Session 4, Dan looks at phrasal verbs with the word pop. Here's a guide to phrasal verbs. Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to ...