Phrasal Verb Fun

drop in, drop in on
Mora lives up the street. She's always dropping in for a cup of tea.
When angels visit you
in
your home, they drop in from Heaven. You, of
course, feel exactly the same way when a friend comes to visit you.
Now we're here in Ealing, why don't we drop in on Ken? He'd love to see
us.
DROP IN is a
two-word verb without an object
No problem.
DROP IN ON is a
three-word verb
No problem either.
drop off, drop something off
'Hello, Clive. Is that you? You left your umbrella at my car last night: No
problem. I'll drive round to your house later, and drop it off.'

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When you drop off something, or you drop something
off
, you are
delivering it.
Separable two-word verb
Be careful.
Drop off also means to drop off from consciousness. In simpler words, to
fall asleep, usually rather suddenly.
Mr Monotone, the ecclesiastical history teacher, was talking and talking,
and I just dropped off.
Two-word verb without an object
No problem.
drop out
The rat-race is how we often describe the rush for a good education, a
good job, a nice house in a nice area, a beautiful husband or wife, and
everything else we want. People who drop out of this race - who allow
themselves to fall
out
of the competition - are people who abandon school
early, give up their chances for a good job, and who generally don't live in
a nice house in a nice area.
Two-word verb without an object
No problem.
drop round
Round
usually means 'approximately here' or 'here, but not urgently' For
example, 'come to my house' is very direct, but 'come round to my house'
is friendly.
I'm calling a friend who is dropping round this evening. She says, 'Who
else is coming?'
call round
,
come round
,
call by
,
come by
and
drop by
all mean the same.
Two-word verb without an object
No problem.
dry
(dry, dried, dried)
A dry day is a day when it does not rain. A dry cloth has no water in it. So
to dry something means to remove the water from it.
dry out
This
out
means 'away' so when you dry something out it means that you
eliminate all the water in it; the water goes away.. Imagine that you have

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been caught in the rain (which happens a lot in England) and your clothes
are wet when you get home. You have to take them off and dry them out
before you can wear them again.
Separable two-word verb
Be careful.
dry up
Dry completely (which is the most common meaning of
up
) When a river
dries up there is no more water in it. The sun dried it up. When farming
land dries up there is tragedy and people have to move away.
Separable two-word verb
Be careful.