Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup, showoff, etc.) or adjectives (spaced-out, broken-down, stressed-out, and many others) is essential to ESL students. Updated information includes: the most commonly used phrasal verbs; activities and examples that reflect our current technology and the world around us; an expanded introduction for the teacher with a thorough breakdown and explanation of phrasal verbs; and, a discussion of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs in Unit I, and more. This book’s hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises will be extremely useful to ESL students who are preparing for TOEFL or who simply wish to improve their English.

Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup, showoff, etc.) or adjectives (spaced-out, broken-down, stressed-out, and many others) is essential to ESL students. Updated information includes: the most commonly used phrasal verbs; activities and examples that reflect our current technology and the world around us; an expanded introduction for the teacher with a thorough breakdown and explanation of phrasal verbs; and, a discussion of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs in Unit I, and more. This book’s hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises will be extremely useful to ESL students who are preparing for TOEFL or who simply wish to improve their English.

"Master English Collocations & Phrasal verbs: The Ultimate Phrasal Verbs and Collocations Book for Learning English" is ideal for anyone who has problems understanding, remembering and using collocations and phrasal verbs in English, and who wants to speak English fluently and confidently. Don ́t waste hours upon hours researching words and trying to understand their exact meaning. This book will make your learning more efficient with less of your own effort, which means more spare time to review other concepts.This book has been written for quick reference, in order to avoid it becoming too heavy and theoretical. This is not an exhaustive list of collocations or phrasal verbs in English, it's a curated list of some of the most common ones.

This book has been written as a learning aid for EFL students (English as a Foreign Language). It is geared towards upper-intermediate and advanced students, and the first half goes over the most common verbs (e.g. come, bring, put, and make) while the second half runs through the most common prepositions (e.g. up, down, with, and on). The phrasal verbs are grouped together to make them sink in quicker. Multiple images are included in every chapter to draw out the various shades of meaning and to make the words easier to memorize. Each chapter has at least one vocabulary table, one micro-text, one short exercise, and several striking images. At the end of the book, the vocabulary is revised in a number of exercises for antonyms and synonyms. For learners who are hungry for extra resources, there is a playlist on YouTube with almost 100 video lessons (‘Learn Phrasal Verbs’) that focus on the same vocabulary. This coursebook, combined with the videos, is ideal for self-study, but it could also be used in the classroom.

Named to the International Reading Association's 2012 Teachers' Choice book list Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students is a complete and comprehensive guide to all things grammar from Grammar Girl, a.k.a. Mignon Fogarty, whose popular podcasts have been downloaded over twenty million times and whose first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, was a New York Times bestseller. For beginners to more advanced students, this guide covers it all: the parts of speech, sentences, and punctuation are all explained clearly and concisely with the warmth, wit, and accessibility Grammar Girl is known for. Pop quizzes are scattered throughout to reinforce the explanations, as well as Grammar Girl's trademark Quick and Dirty Tips—easy and fun memory tricks to help with those challenging rules. Complete with a writing style chapter and a guide to the different kinds of writing—everything from school papers to letter writing to e-mails—this guide is sure to become the one-stop, essential book on every student's desk.

If you are trying to study English then you have probably already run into problems with phrasal verbs. So many English students have problems with phrasal verbs. But you don't need to worry. This book will help you learn 462 phrasal verbs in the context of a fun short story. You will be able to see these new phrasal verbs inside the story and so it will be easier for you to understand them in context. Each phrasal verb is explained below the text so you can read and repeat them as many times as you need to learn them. Remember, phrasal verbs are very important if you want to speak better English. So today is the day to start improving your English!

Business Phrasal Verbs (CorpusLAB Series) contains explanations and exercises related to the most common phrasal verbs used in Business English. The book also covers common phrases and collocations used in Business English. So, for example, the book covers not just a phrasal verb like "put in" but phrases such as "put in a bid". The book is informed by the analysis of American English used in business situations and the example sentences used in the book are based on real language.

Improve your understanding of phrasal verbs in English. Explanations and practice of approximately 1,000 phrasal verbs, written for advanced-level (C1 to C2) learners of English. Perfect for both self-study and classroom activities. Learn phrasal verbs in context, with lots of different topics, including 'Lectures and seminars', 'Agreeing' and 'Social life'. Be confident about what you are learning, thanks to Cambridge research into how English is really spoken and written, and get better at studying by yourself, with study tips, follow-up tasks and an easy to use answer key.

In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.