English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

Do these sentences have the correct preposition or particle? If not, correct them.
1 Do you think the company will have to lay any staff out?
2 I learnt Spanish at school but need to brush it on before I go to Spain.
3 I’m putting a presentation together for the board to consider.
4 If you rush for a decision, you may regret it later.
5 We’ll have to call out tomorrow’s picnic if the weather is bad.
6 The family soon settled on to their new flat in the city.
7 I love the way Katie always throws herself onto everything she does.
8 Nita put forward some very interesting ideas at the meeting.
Which of the phrasal verbs on the opposite page can have the preposition or particle 
either before or after the object? Write the verbs in phrases both ways using one of 
these objects.
team skill report staff meeting plan
example 
urge a team on – urge on a team
These sentences use some other phrasal verbs. Can you work out what the verbs mean 
from the context? Match the phrasal verbs in the sentences with the definitions in the box.
delay explode abolish waste time not tell criticise occur start to work
1 Most of the students say they would like to 
do away with school uniform.
2 The new arrangements won’t 
kick in till next month.
3 Stop 
messing around – go and tidy your room.
4 Problems always seem to 
crop up at the most inconvenient times.
5 These complications will 
set the building work back by several weeks.
6 However hard he tries, his teacher always seems to 
run him down.
7 I heard the bomb 
go off at midday.
8 It’s foolish to 
hold something so important back from your partner.
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