Posts Tagged ‘Phrasal verbs’
English Phrasal Verbs Nail
In the last entry on phrasal verbs we looked at the verb to hammer. Today we'll take a look at to verb to nail. Nail down has several meanings. When you nail something down it means that you fix it tightly with nails. We had better nail down that loose floorboard or someone is going to have [...]
English Phrasal Verbs: Hammer
In this short blog post we will look at three ways we can use “hammer” as part of a phrasal verb: Hammer away Hammer in Hammer out Hammer away at something If you hammer away at something it means that you work hard at something or it means that you repeat something many times. She kept hammering away about [...]
English Phrasal Verbs: Flood
A flood happens when there is too much rain and the water can’t get away quickly enough. The verb “to flood” describes this action and it can also mean something happens too quickly to control. Here we are going to look at using flood in four forms of phrasal verb: flood back flood in/into flood out flood [...]
