Phrasal Verb Fun

go back, go back on
Back
after most verbs has the sense of 'return'. Go back is 'return there',

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come back is 'return here', pay back is 'return the money' and so on.
Go back is literal.
After his appointment at the dentist, William went back to the office.
But we only use go back on in one way. If somebody goes back on his
word, it means that he breaks his word. He breaks his promise. He does
not do what he said he would do.
Mr Martinez promised to pay me for my work, but he lied. He went back
on his word.
Three-word verb
. No problem.
go down (well)
Veronica told her husband that she wanted a divorce. It didn't go down
very well. He was not happy.
When we eat, the food goes
down
to our stomach. If the food is delicious,
it goes down well. By extension, anything we consume and enjoy, goes
down well.
After some months of delay, the President raised taxes on nearly
everything. That went down really badly with everyone.
Fixed expressions. No problem.
go down with
Lola couldn't go to school today. She has gone down with a bad cold.
The direction towards the earth is
down
. By extension, it can mean a
depressing or sad mood.
When we are healthy we are usually happy. When we have an illness we
are not. We go down with flu, for example.
come down with
means exactly the same.
Three-word verb
. No problem.
go for
One of the commonest meanings of
for
is the reason why you do
something.
Helen wasn't sure if the job offer was right for her, but we told her to go
for it. She did, and now she's the manager.
'It was a risk,' she said. 'But I went for it.'
To go for it means to 'go in the direction of it'. It can be enthusiastic or it

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can be aggressive.
'I don't like that dog at all. Last week, it went for me.'
Go at
is very similar.
Inseparable two-word verb
No problem.
go in for
Go in simply means 'to enter'.
Mr Hendrickson rang the doorbell, and went in.
George habitually goes 'in'
for
an activity - an activity so absorbing, so
exciting, that when he does it, he feels as if he is
in
it. And one of the
commonest meanings of for is a purpose. It is the reason why you do
something.
Mr Bevis goes in for stamp collecting. Mary goes in for playing the violin.
These are their passions, their hobbies.
Three-word verb
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go in with
Go in with is business. Your partners are the people you go
in
a venture
or a project with.
According to statistics, a major cause of business failure is problems
between partners. This means that you must always be very careful of
who you go in with.
Contrast this with
go out with
, which is romantic.
A
three-word verb but it is separable
. You GO IN (a business) WITH (somebody).
go off
When cheese moves by itself, it has gone off. When bread, or eggs, are
green, they have gone off. They
are off
. You don't ever want to eat these
things.
Sometimes
off
means 'away from the point', 'away from what we want'
and other times we use
off
to mean a change of state or position (like
push off
,
set off
,
take off
)
A more dramatic change of state is when something explodes. Bombs
sometimes go off.
Two-word verb without an object
No problem.

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When we go off something, or somebody, we lose our enthusiasm for it.
I used to like George, but I don't any more. I went off him when I found
out about what he did to his wife.
A third meaning of go off, almost identical to be off, uses
off
in the 'away
from here' sense.
'I'm going off now.' means 'Goodbye.' We also say,
'I'm off
now.'
To GO OFF somebody is an
inseparable two-word verb
Otherwise, it is a
two-word verb without an object
No problem in any case.