What's the most difficult part about learning English? Well, according to a lot of my students,
it is phrasal verbs, to blow up, to catch up on, to go out. What in the world? Well,
never fear. Today, I have some good news for you. Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
Today in this lesson, you are going to take a phrasal verb test. You will test yourself
with 20 phrasal verb questions. I wonder what your score is going to be. When you finish this test,
please let me know in the comments. Like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet that includes
all of these phrasal verb quiz questions and their answers and a little explanation about why that's
the correct answer. I hope this will help you to start to level up your phrasal verb skills.
You can click on the link in the description to download that free PDF worksheet today.
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level up your skills and express yourself using phrasal verbs. All right, let's get started
with our phrasal verb test. Sentence number one, which phrasal verb best fits in this sentence? You
shouldn't... politics in this house unless you are ready to have a long conversation, you shouldn't
blow up, bring on, or bring up. Which one is the correct answer? I'll give you three seconds. 3,
2, 1. You know what? You really shouldn't bring up politics in this house unless you're ready for a
long conversation. The phrasal verb to bring up something means to mention it in conversation.
All right, let's go to quiz question number two. I met my friend for lunch
because we haven't seen each other in months. Which phrasal verb is the best? To catch up,
to check out or to calm down? Three. I met my friend for lunch to catch up because we haven't
seen each other in months. This phrasal verb to catch up means to meet with someone who you
haven't seen for a long time. Let's catch up. Test question number three. It's a little bit
tricky. Which phrasal verb is the best in this sentence. Instead of the wedding, the couple
decided to elope. To elope means that you don't have an official ceremony. Maybe it's just you and
your spouse and you go to a courthouse alone and you get married. So which phrasal verb is the best
here? Cutting off, calling off or closing down? All of these have a slightly similar meaning,
which is kind of to stop something, but only one is correct. 3, 2, 1. Instead of calling off the
wedding, the couple decided to elope. The phrasal verb to call off something means to cancel some
plans. Instead of calling off the whole wedding and not getting married, they just decided to
elope to make it simple. All right, let's go to the next test. Question number four. Her story
just didn't... I think she's lying. Which one of these is correct? Account for, add up, or accept?
3, 2, 1. Her story just didn't add up. I think she's lying. I hope I didn't trick you
on this one because the final verb here, accept is actually not a phrasal verb. To be a phrasal verb,
you need a main verb, which is to accept. Okay, but there is no second or third part.
This can be a, usually we think of it like a preposition to add is the regular verb and up
is the preposition, to add up. Her story didn't add up. We usually use this in the negative sense,
and it means it doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up. You can use it in a positive way to say, "Oh,
okay. Her story adds up," but it's a little less common. It's more common to say her story doesn't
add up. I think she's lying. All right, let's go to the next test question. Number five. The wreck
is going to... traffic for hours. Is it to hang up? Is it to hold up or is it to hold on? 3, 2,
1. Unfortunately, the wreck is going to hold up traffic for hours. To hold up means to
delay or to block some kind of progress. Cars cannot get through because there's a wreck.
The wreck is holding up traffic. Man, you're going to be late for work. All right, let's go to the
next one. Phrasal verb test question number six, the troops... against the attack because
they knew that reinforcements were on the way. Which phrasal verb works the best here, hung out,
hung up, or held out? 3, 2, 1. The troops held out against the attack because they knew that
reinforcement were on the way. To hold out against something, here held is the irregular past tense,
to hold out against something means that you are waiting because you have hopes that something
better is happening in the future. Here we have troops that are under attack, but do you know
what? They're not going to give up. They're going to hold out. They have hope because they know that
reinforcements, other troops are on the way to help them. All right, let's go to the next one.
Quiz question number seven is if you... practicing, you will eventually get better.
What's the best phrasal verb? Keep on, keep up, with or keep out? 3, 2, 1. I have some bad news.
This was a trick question. There are actually two correct answers. You can say if you keep up
practicing, you will eventually get better. Or you can say, if you keep on practicing,
you will eventually get better. Both of these phrasal verbs can be used, and that's kind of the
tricky thing about phrasal verbs is that sometimes they have a similar meaning and there's just two
different options. So there you go. Let's go to quiz question number eight. He didn't want to...
his team, but he knew that they probably wouldn't win. Which one's correct? To give out, to give up
on, or to give away? All three of these use the main verb give, but the preposition is different.
Only one is correct. 3, 2, 1. He didn't want to give up on his team, but he knew that they
probably wouldn't win. We used the phrasal verb to give up on something when you lose hope. You're
surrendering something. Huh? I'm just giving up on my team. I'm not even going to help them try
to win anymore because they have no hope. It's kind of a sad situation. All right, let's go to
the next question. Quiz question number nine. Which one is correct here? He wanted to...
the gas before the storm came. He wanted to fill out, fill in or fill up? It's a little bit tricky
here. I'll give you three seconds. He wanted to fill up the gas before the storm came. The
phrasal verb to fill up means to make something full, and we often link this with gas in the car.
I need to fill up the gas in my car. I need to fill up before the storm comes. Congratulations,
you have made it to the final test question. Test question number 10. Which phrasal verb
best fits in this sentence? I like to.... presence during the holidays.
Don't be tricked by these answers. Which ones correct? Give out, give up, or give back?
Hmm. 3, 2, 1. I hope you said, I like to give out presents during the holidays. Did you say,
I like to give back presents during the holidays? Oh, no. This means that if I give you a presence,
you just give it right back to me because you don't like it. That would make me very
sad. So here we want to say I give out presents during the holidays and it means to distribute
presents to your friends, your family, and your neighbors during the holidays.
So how did you do on these 10 phrasal verb test questions? Let me know your score in the comments,
and don't forget to download the free PDF worksheet, which includes all 10 of these
phrasal verb test questions, plus 10 bonus questions so that you can super extra test
your phrasal verb skills. You can click on the link in the description to download that free PDF
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do you want more? I recommend watching this video next where you will learn 30 phrasal verbs for
your morning routine. What happens when you don't wake up with your alarm in the morning? Do you
know the phrasal verb for that? Well, I recommend watching this video and I'll see you there. Bye.