English phrasal verb quiz: Part 19

In the YouTube videos Phrasal Verb Daily, numbers 180 to 190, you learnt the meaning or a meaning of the following 10 English phrasal verbs:

1. PULL DOWN
2. TAKE TO
3. GO ABOUT
4. SET ASIDE
5. WIND UP
6. PUT DOWN TO
7. SET OUT TO
8. CARRY OUT
9. DAWN ON
10. POP ROUND

To make sure that you don't forget what each of these means or can mean (because some have more than one meaning), do the online exercises/quizzes below.

In the first exercise, you have to choose which of the above phrasal verbs is correct for the sentence. Use the context of the sentence(s) to help you decide which one is correct.

In the second exercise, you have to match each of the 10 phrasal verbs to their meaning (e.g. 'to leave a bus, plane or train').

In both exercises, you should only use each of the 10 phrasal verbs once.

P.S. If you haven't watched the YouTube Videos for these, I would recommend you do this before doing these exercises (click on the phrasal verb in the above list to watch it). It will help to make doing the exercises easier and make sure that you remember them.

Exercise 1

Choose the correct phrasal verb from the selection box for each of the 10 questions. Click on the "Check Answers" button at the bottom of the quiz to check your answers.

1.

You've made a website before. I'd like to have one, but I don't know what to do. How would I dawn on go about pop round pull down making one?  

2.

Juile: "Do the police know yet who carried out set out to wound up took to the bank robbery?"
Mary: "No, they don't. They are still investigating it."  

3.

He will set aside pull down go about wind up in prison if he keeps stealing things from shops.  

4.

John takes her recent behaviour to carries her recent behaviour out puts down her recent behaviour to set out her recent behaviour to just her feeling stressed. But I don't agree, I feel that it is something more serious.  

5.

When we started the company 25 years ago, we popped round set out to dawned on set aside revolutionize the fashion industry. Obviously, we didn't achieve that goal, but we did succeed in creating a profitable business.  

6.

Susan: "Where have you been for the last 30 minutes?"
Bill: "I just popped round put down to pulled down set out to to our nextdoor neighbour's house for a chat and to ask if I can borrow their lawnmower to cut the grass in our garden."  

7.

I couldn't understand why the experiment kept failing. I had done everything like I shouldn't have done. Then one morning whilst I was walking my dog, it carried out wound up went about dawned on me the reason why. The temperature in the laboratory was too high. So the next time I did it, I turned the temperature down and it worked.  

8.

My brother never used to do any exercise. But over the last two months he's put down to set out to taken to carried out going to gym three times a week. I hope he'll continue doing it in the future.  

9.

The local council had to go about pop round set aside pull down the church after it was severly damaged in a fire and it was too expensive to repair.  

10.

Every month I put down to set aside dawn on wind up £150 from my salary in order to pay for a new car which I'm planning to buy next year. I already have over £2,000 saved for it.  

Exercise 2

Choose the correct phrasal verb from the selection box for each of the 10 questions. Click on the "Check Answers" button at the bottom of the quiz to check your answers.

1.

To destroy/demolish a building or structure (e.g. a bridge, a statue) using machines.

WIND UP PULL DOWN SET OUT TO CARRY OUT  

2.

To keep, save or not use something (e.g. money) so that it can be used for a specific purpose.

GO ABOUT PUT DOWN TO TAKE TO SET ASIDE  

3.

To finally (often suddenly and unexpectedly) realise something or understand something which hadn't made sense to you before.

DAWN ON CARRY OUT POP ROUND GO ABOUT  

4.

To say what you personally believe the reason is for why somebody did or does something or why something happened.

TAKE TO SET ASIDE PUT DOWN TO WIND UP  

5.

To go and visit somebody in their house or flat for a short period of time.

SET OUT TO POP ROUND DAWN ON TAKE TO  

6.

When you say or ask about how you do something (like doing a work task) or what you have to do to achieve something.

SET ASIDE GO ABOUT PULL DOWN DAWN ON  

7.

To say who did a criminal action, or when or where it happened.

CARRY OUT WIND UP GO ABOUT SET ASIDE  

8.

To say what the negative end result will be if a person continues doing (or not doing) an activity.

POP ROUND PULL DOWN WIND UP SET OUT TO  

9.

To say that somebody has started doing something habitually.

DAWN ON PUT DOWN TO GO ABOUT TAKE TO  

10.

To say what the original aim/purpose was when you decided or started to do something.

SET ASIDE SET OUT TO WIND UP POP ROUND  

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