Phrasal Verbs: English Grammar

 

Phrasal verbs

    List of Phrasal Verbs

    👉Go after

    Meaning: Pursue in an attempt to catch another

    Example: Go after him and apologize.

    👉 Go after

    Meaning: Pursue an object or a goal

    Example: Inspired, the scientist went right after the new idea.

    👉 Go against

    Meaning: Violate; to breach; to break

    Example: What he did goes against the rules.

    👉 Go against

    Meaning: Be unfavourable to someone

    Example: The court’s decision went against them.

    👉 Go against

    Meaning: Be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle

    Example: This goes against my instincts.

    👉 Go against

    Meaning: Oppose; to resist

    Example: He dared not go against the King.

    👉 Go ahead

    Meaning: Proceed; to begin

    Example: Go ahead and eat without me; I expect to be very late.

    👉 Go all out

    Meaning: Reserve nothing; to put forth all possible effort or resources

    Example: They went all out for his eightieth birthday party and chartered a tour boat on the bay.

    👉 Go along

    Meaning: Participate, cooperate, or conform

    Example: I refuse to go along with another of his dangerous schemes.

    👉 Go around

    Meaning: Move or spread from person to person

    Example: There’s a cough going around.

    👉 Go around

    Meaning: Share with everyone

    Example: There’s plenty of fish to go around.

    👉 Go at

    Meaning: Try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task

    Example: I went at the issue for hours but could not come up with a way around it.

    👉 Go away

    Meaning: Depart or leave a place

    Example: I’m not going to buy it. Please go away and don’t come back.

    👉 Go away

    Meaning: Travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation

    Example: Are you going away this year?

    👉 Go away

    Meaning: Become invisible, vanish or disappear

    Example: This cold just won’t go away.

    👉 Go back

    Meaning: Abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something

    Example: You promised me that you’d pay up today, no going back on your word.

    👉 Go below

    Meaning: Go below deck on a ship; to leave the top deck of a ship

    Example: The weather’s getting bad; you had better go below!

    👉 Go by

    Meaning: Pass or go past without much interaction

    Example: I like to sit and watch the world go by.

    👉 Go by

    Meaning: Be called, to use as a name

    Example: His full name is Ernest Tinkleton, but he goes by Ernie.

    👉 Go by

    Meaning: Follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.

    Example: I’m only going by what my teacher said.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one

    Example: You’ll need to go down two floors to get to that office.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Disappear below the horizon; to set

    Example: It’ll be cooler once the sun goes down.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one

    Example: The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Fall (down), fall to the floor

    Example: The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Be received or accepted

    Example: The news didn’t go down well with her parents.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Be recorded or remembered (as)

    Example: Today will go down as a monumental failure.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Take place, happen

    Example: A big heist went down yesterday by the docks.

    👉 Go down

    Meaning: Stop functioning, to go offline

    Example: Did the server just go down again? We’ll have to reboot it.