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Language Variation Quiz: Preposition 'On'

Quiz for Verb: 'To on'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Key on' - Target, focus on (sport)

'Play on' - Continue playing a sport though there might be a reason to stop

'Try it on' - Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly

'Wait on' - Sell goods in a shop

'Follow on' - In cricket, if the second team to bat doesn't score enough runs, it has to bat again

'Dump on' - Criticize heavily, often unfairly

'Hit on' - Ask for money

'Poop out on' - Fail to keep an appointment

'Rat on' - Fail to keep a promise

'Sit on' - To handle somebody firmly who behaves impertinently, conceitedly


 

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