Phrasal Verb Fun

go on, go on about, go on for
Susanna is very shy and she found it hard to talk in front of the class, but
her friends told her to go on, and she finished her speech.
On
often means 'continue' (
carry on
,
get on in years
) and go on means
just that. We often encourage people to continue talking by saying, 'Go
on.' It means, 'Don't stop.'
Lazy Maisie never does any work. Her mother is always going on about
it, but it doesn't make any difference. Maisie's still lazy.
Lazy Maisie's mother continued to talk about it. (Same as
keep on about
something.
For often measures duration. So Shy Susanna's speech went on for
twenty minutes.
GO ON is a
two-word verb without an object
No problem.
GO ON ABOUT is a
three-word verb
. No problem.
GO ON FOR is a
three-word verb
. No problem either
go out
When a fire dies, it goes out. We can put out a fire with a bucket of water.
It's
out
now, and we feel the cold, as we often do when we go outdoors.
Two-word verb without an object
No problem.
go out with
Go out with is romantic. It describes the steady boyfriend or girlfriend.
Mary goes out with George. They are a couple. Let's hope that they love
each other. George and Mary go out together - out to the pubs, out to the

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cinema, out to the bingo. They go
out
everywhere together.
Contrast this with
go in with
, which is business.
Three-word verb
. No problem.
go over
Kenneth was very slow in the general relativity class, and the teacher
had to go over it more than once.
Over
can have the sense of seeing things from above or from a
distance.You can see the big picture but not the details. Think of
look over
and
think over
.
Go over a problem means to think about it again, maybe a different way,
from a fresh angle.
Inseparable two-word verb
No problem.