Preposition 'About' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To about'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Go about' means...

Work on something

Finish, leave work

Bring someone or something to certain place

'Go about' means...

Read aloud rather than silently

Deal with something

Bend over at the waist

'See about' means...

Arrange, consider

Pass a quality or characteristic to people

Shoot, fire a gun (usually repeatedly)

'Slob about' means...

Be lazy, do nothing

Start a job or position that someone had occupied before you

Allocate money

'Fall about' means...

Laugh a lot

Be ill

Get fat

'Bang on about' means...

Make something faster

Cancel an appointment by sending a text message

Keep talking about something

'Push about' means...

Repeatedly criticise someone verbally

Bully, treat badly

Wait for or anticipate something pleasant

'Go on about' means...

Talk too much

Start a habit or way of acting or behaving

Enter a place quickly

'Come about' means...

Tell someone the truth, often when they had not known for some time

Happen, occur

Make someone understand

'Float about' means...

Move into a different area of business, etc.

Continue with something difficult

Be somewhere near, though not visible

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