![]() On today’s Everyday Grammar program, we will talk about four common phrasal verbs with the word “off.” They are “go off,” “put off” “drop off” and “pay off.” As you will learn today, some of these verbs can be separated by other words. Luckily, you do not need to know all of them. The English language contains a lot of phrasal verbs. ![]() The phrasal verb “go off,” for instance, is made of the verb “go” and the particle “off.” But “go off” can mean to make a sudden loud noise. In other words, the verb and particle together mean something different from what each individual word suggests. Phrasal verbs usually have idiomatic meanings. There are several common particles in phrasal verbs, such as the word “off.” One example of a phrasal verb is “go off.” You may remember that a phrasal verb is a verb plus one or two more words called “particles.” Particles can be prepositions or adverbs. Today, we are going to talk about phrasal verbs.
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