Easy Phrasal Verbs: Learn English verbs through conversations

49.6.2 Yusuf and Liam are talking about their past girlfriends.

Yusuf: Man. I’ve gone out with some really crazy girls.

Liam: Crazy how?

Yusuf: When we broke up, they did crazy things like cutting up my shirts!

Liam: Oh. Must have been a bad break up.

Yusuf:  Yeah.  I  suppose  I  shouldn’t  have  gone  out  with  her  best  friend

afterwards!

Liam: Oh my god. You dog!

Yusuf: I know. The heart wants what the heart wants.

Liam: The heart?

Yusuf: Ha ha.

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Exercises

Fill in the blanks in the following conversations:

1.

A: Why do you like that guy? You always ______ with the meanest guys.

B:  He’s  not  mean.  He’s  just  misunderstood.  He’s  really  sweet  to  me

sometimes.

A: Sometimes really isn’t enough.

2.

A: I think I need to find a great guy like you did grandma.

B: Well, you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a Prince Charming!

I ______ with a lot of guys who weren’t right for me when I was your age.

A: Really? Well, I guess there’s hope for me yet.

B: Of course there is.

3.

A: Hey, John. Do you wanna catch a movie with me this weekend?

B: I’m flattered, but I’m ______ with someone. Sorry.

A: Oh well. You don’t ask you don’t get, right?

4.

A: Have you ever ______ with someone much younger than you?

B: Hmmm. No. I usually date people my own age or slightly older.

5.

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A:  I  tell  you,  Emma.  Sometimes  relationships  with  someone  from  a

different culture are hard. There can be so many misunderstandings.

B: I haven’t ______ with someone from a different culture before. It must

be challenging.

A: It is sometimes, but it’s always interesting.

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50. Go out (5)

Travel far away to a specific place

Present

Continuous Past

Present

perfect

go/goes

out

be

going

out

went out have/has

gone out

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Nonseparable

Verbs of similar meaning:

go away to; travel to

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