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I hope everyone is doing well.
Let's start a thread about phrasel verbs. It's better to aks question and get answers or post exercises so we can learn from each other.
Let's get started by this exercise:
the phrasal verb equivalents for the following:
'to make something appear less important'
'to continue doing something'
'to decide not to do something that was previously arranged'
'to be like a member of the family in appearance or manner'
'to not be able to make people forget a mistake you have made'

Can anyone start answering please??
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Hello friends
I hope everyone is doing well.
Let's start a thread about phrasal verbs. It's better to ask a question and get answers or post exercises so we can learn from each other.
Let's get started by this exercise:
the phrasal verb equivalents for the following:
'to make something appear less important'
'to continue doing something'
'to decide not to do something that was previously arranged'
'to be like a member of the family in appearance or manner'
'to not be able to make people forget a mistake you have made'

Can anyone start answering please??
Thanks in advance.
sara
Good topic. It's probably best to ask for example sentences; definitions can seem very complex, and they sometimes - as in your last one, I think - allow you to confuse a negative sense ('not to be able') with a phrasal verb often used in a negative context: If I went to work in my pyjamas I could never live it down. (Or have I guessed wrong? If so, 'live down' is another one for you. .

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Thanks for your reply Bobk but unfortunatly I didn't quite get what you mean.
As for the phrasel verb you have given, I think it doesn't much the last definition of the exercise. It means:
"to be unable to stop feeling embarrassed about something you have done:
I wish I'd never opened my mouth in the meeting - I'm never going to live it down!"
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Thanks for your reply Bobk but unfortunatly I didn't quite get what you mean.
As for the phrasal verb you have given, I think it doesn't much the last definition of the exercise. It means:
"to be unable to stop feeling embarrassed about something you have done:
I wish I'd never opened my mouth in the meeting - I'm never going to live it down!"
- it doesn't match it, I agree. When native speakers see language students' sentences, they sometimes have to make guesses about what was meant. I guessed wrong.

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Hello friends.
Can anyone help me do the last exercise ??!
Let's add this one:
the phrasal verb equivalents for the following:
'to become strict'
'to refuse an offer or request'
'to write and ask for something to be posted to you'
'to have a good relationship with someone'
'to postpone'


I'll try to answer some and hope that you will correct me:
'to have a good relationship with someone'== get along well.
'to refuse an offer or request'== give up something.


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to refuse an offer or request - how about turn down?
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I think you are right Tdol. "turn down" seems to be the right one.
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Another collection:


the phrasal verb equivalents for the following:
'to collect someone from somewhere'
'not to include someone in an activity'
'to feel something strongly all of a sudden'
'to have a great deal of respect for someone older'
'to leave the ground and rise into the air'
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pick up
leave out
look up to
take off
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thank you Tdol for your help.
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