tailieunhanh - Making Headway Phrasal Verbs And Idioms Advanced Ocr Indexed

Multi-word verbs, or phrasal verbs as they are often referred to, present a very special problem. English can make verb and particle (preposition or adverb) combinations easily and freely. The word particle has been used throughout this book, in order to avoid having to make the adverb/preposition distinction (to most students, the word after the verb in a multi-word verb is always a preposition). | MAKING HEADWAY Phrasal Verbs and Idioms Advanced Graham Workman Oxford University Press Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Foreword 4 Introduction 5 Introductory unit 7 In good hands 15 Floating voters 20 Arts review 25 Going by appearances 31 Money Money Money 35 Crime doesn t pay 40 Selling like hot cakes 46 Crisis What crisis 52 Happily ever after 58 It takes all sorts 64 Proverbs 70 Tapescript section 77 Answer key 85 Foreword Students of English realize very early on in their learning career that prepositions present a problem. They collocate with nouns adjectives past participles and verbs without rules or logic. Students simply have to learn that interested is followed by in and good is followed by at and go home has no preposition. Multi-word verbs or phrasal verbs as they are often referred to present a very special problem. English can make verb and particle preposition or adverb combinations easily and freely. The word particle has been used throughout this book in order to avoid having to make the adverb preposition distinction to most students the word after the verb in a multi-word verb is always a preposition . Multiword verbs exist throughout the language. They express everyday actions such as Turn on the light they can also have a variety of meanings such as Things worked out well We worked out the problem She worked out in the gym I ve never been able to work him out and The final price works out at 10. Given the complexity of the area the surprise is that learners are very keen to master it. They seem to sense that multi-word verbs are a vital component of English and spoken English in particular. There is also the feeling that an understanding of common idioms will increase their comprehension though most students instinctively avoid trying to produce them. The best time to address these areas is at upperintermediate and advanced levels when students already have a certain grammatical and lexical foundation. This books goes a long way to helping .