Phrasal verbs advanced - 4






Give an alternative word for the commom phrasal verbs in the following sentences:

a   I
gave up smoking years ago!
b   Well, that's my offer. Why don't you
think it over for a few days?
c   I've
talked the matter over with my husband and we've decided to accept your offer.
d  The police are
looking into the company's records.
e  They've decided to
call off the strike.
f   He
turned up half an hour late for his appointment.
g  Please
put out your cigarettes before entering the library.
h  I found it reasonably easy to
pick up enough Spanish to get by with.
i   It was obvious that he was
making up facts as he went along.
j   Numbers in the class have
fallen off recently.

Clues

stopped
arrived
extinguish
consider it carefully
discussed
learn, manage
declined
inventing
abandon, cancel
investigating



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