Easy Phrasal Verbs: Learn English verbs through conversations

41. Think about (1)

1. think about / 2. thinking about / 3. thinking about / 4. thought about / 5.

thought about; think about

42. Think about (2)

1. think about / 2. thinking about / 3. thinking about / 4. thought about / 5.

thought about

43. Think about (3)

1. thought about; thought about / 2. thinking about / 3. thinking about / 4.

think about / 5. thought about

44. Think about (4)

1. think about / 2. thinks about / 3. thought about / 4. thought about / 5.

think about

45. Think about (5)

1.  think  about  /  2.  think  about  /  3.  ‘ve  thought  /  4.  thinking  about  /  5.

thinking about

46. Go out (1)

1. has gone out or went out / 2. going out / 3. going out / 4. gone out / 5.

going to

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47. Go out (2)

1. go out / 2. went out / 3. go out / 4. go out; went out / 5. gone out

48. Go out (3)

1. goes out / 2. gone out; gone out / 3. went out / 4. gone out / 5. go out

49. Go out (4)

1. go out / 2. went out / 3. going out / 4. gone out / 5. gone out

50. Go out (5)

1. going out / 2. gone out / 3. going out to / 4. go out / 5. go out; go out

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Review Quiz 2

1. come back / 2. get / 3. thinking about / 4. go out; go out / 5. talked to /

6. thought about / 7. gone out; gone out / 8. come back / 9. gets to / 10.

thought about / 11. going out / 12. going out / 13. come back / 14. went

back / 15. going out / 16. talked to / 17. get to / 18. thought about / 19.

coming back / 20. thought about / 21. came back / 22. go back; go back /

23. gotten to / 24. gone out / 25. gotten to

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Phrasal Verb Selection

The  following  is  a  technical  description  of  how  I  selected  the  phrasal

verbs for this book.

There  are  many  phrasal  verbs  in  the  English  language  and  each  can

have several meanings. It is therefore very difficult for English learners to

select which phrasal verbs will be most useful.

In this book, I have chosen a total of 50 different phrasal verb meanings

which I believe will be the most useful in everyday conversation at home,

at work, and with friends.

To  select  the  phrasal  verbs  in  this  book,  I  created  a  list  of  400  phrasal

verbs and used an extremely large online English language database to

determine a usage frequency ranking. I then looked at each phrasal verb

individually and gave it a score based on my own personal experience of

how often I use it in daily life. Next, for each phrasal verb, I multiplied the

usage  frequency  rank  by  my  personal  score  to  give  it  an  overall  utility

score which was used to rank the 400 phrasal verbs. I then listed every

possible  meaning  for  each  phrasal  verb  and  ranked  each  of  those

meanings  for  utility.  Finally,  I  selected  the  top  ranking  50  meanings  and

based the conversations in this book on them.

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