Mastering English Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs

Adjectives and Prepositions

At: good, annoyed, bad
With: happy, fed up, pleased, bored, satisfied, angry
In: interested
About: nervous, worried, upset, concerned, angry
On: keen
By: surprised, embarrassed
Of: scared, frightened

Travel and Movement Verbs

• Travel: on your own, independently, first/economy class, separately/together, light
• Get: into/out of a car, back from somewhere, here/there by 10:30, on/off a bus/plane, a taxi home/to work
• Go on: a trip, a guided tour, a journey, a cruise, a package holiday

English Synonyms

choose/pick, satisfied/content, lucky/fortunate, behave/act, notice/spot, by chance/accidentally, attitude/approach, sure/certain, deal with/cope with, show/reveal, concerned/worried, frightened/scared, make a decision/make up your mind, try to do/have a go at doing, talk to someone/chat to someone, nice/pleasant, enormous/huge, pleased/glad, wonderful/brilliant, terrible/awful

Categorized Vocabulary

Food: broccoli, red/green pepper, peas, beef, lamb, carrots, aubergine, beans, courgettes
Materials: metal, plastic, paper, wool, steel, cardboard, wood, tin, rubber, glass, cotton, leather

Travel Phrasal Verbs

• Set off: start a journey
• Get around: travel to different places in the same city
• Bring sth back: return from a place with something you bought there
• Deal with sth: do something in order to solve a problem or achieve something
• Check into somewhere: go to the reception desk to say you have arrived and to get the key to your room
• Check out of somewhere: go to the reception desk to pay your bill before you leave
• Put up with sth: accept a situation that you don't like because you can't change it
• See sb off: go to the place where someone is leaving from to say goodbye to them
• Pick sb up: go to a place where somebody is waiting and take them where they want to go
• Get back: return to a place after you have been somewhere else
• Look forward to sth: feel happy about something that is going to happen

Organization Phrasal Verbs

• Clear sth out: tidy a room or cupboard and get rid of things you don't want anymore
• Sort sth out: arrange or organize things that are not in order or are untidy
• Give sth away: give something to someone without asking for money
• Throw sth away/out: put something in the rubbish bin that you don't want anymore
• Take sth out: remove something from a place
• Tidy (sth) up: make a room or place tidy
• Put sth away: put something in the place where you usually keep it
• Come back: return to a place
• Go through sth: carefully look at things to find something or to see if you want to keep them