Phrasal Verb Quotes

Are you very tolerant? What things do you find it hard to put up with?

begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective.’ At around the same time, research using language corpora was highlighting the combinatory power, and ultimate learning potential, of grammar words (or functors), such as auxiliaries, determiners, prepositions, pronouns and conjunctions. As Sinclair and Renouf (1988: 155) pointed out, ‘English makes excessive use, e.g. through phrasal verbs, of its most frequent words, and so they are well worth learning.’ And they add, ‘verb tenses, for example, which are often the main organizing feature of a course, are combinations of some of the commonest words in the language.’ This suggests to me that there are two

gravy train = a structure or business from which people can make money easily

Accede to means to initially reject and then agree to a request after negotiation

As Mr. Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

council

Around has two main meanings. The most common meaning is vaguely moving from one direction to another. What do many people do on holiday? They walk around the town where they are staying. About and round mean the same, and several verbs have all three forms which mean the same.. The second meaning of around and about is approximate. How much is it? About ten euros. It is around ten euros.

backroom boys = people whose work is important but who don't get much recognition

bear out The facts don't bear out your story. In other words, you story is not supported by any facts.This out means the conclusion. We conclude that the evidence doesn't bear out your story, therefore you're lying to the court. Separable two-word verb   Be careful.