Yet MORE Phrasal Verbs [make, put & take]!
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question. Be sure to read the text at the top of the screen to see my comments to your answer!
Whenever a teacher is absent, most students . . . the cafeteria instead of the library
- make for
- make out
- make up
- make up for
When you are driving on the motorway, it is important to be able to ... what the road signs say, even from a distance.
- make up
- make out
- make up
- make up for
Every morning before I leave my home, I . . . ; that means that I put powder, colour and lipstick on my face.
- make out
- make up
- make up (=invent)
- make up for
Some little children invent the most awful stories. They ... imaginary friends, witches, and all sorts of monsters.
- make up
- make for
- make out
- make up for
We try to . . . our lack of money by using our wonderful imagination.
- make up for
- make for
- make up
- make out
When we can't do a test one week, we sometimes ... doing it till the following week.
- put off
- put on
- put up
- put out
When you come into a dark house, one of the first things you do is to switch on the light. You can also say you . . . the light.
- put on
- put up
- put up with
- put out
When my family comes to visit me from California, I usually . . . the entire crowd at my house; they don't need to go to a hotel.
- put out
- put up
- put on
- put off
When you have an unpleasant teacher, you simply have to . . . them and hope that you won't have that teacher the following year.
- put up with
- put out
- put off
- put up
The job of firemen is to ... fires. They put water and special materials on them.
- put off
- put out
- put on
- put up with
Everyone tells me that my daughter . . . me. She is very much like me, both physically and psychologically.
- takes for
- takes after
- take after
- takes over
I have a pair of twins in my class, and I always . . . one . . . the other. I always confuse them!
- take . . . for
- take . . . after
- take. . . over
- take . . . up
Very recently, Boris Eltsine left power in Russia and let Mr. Putin . . . .
- take after
- take over
- take up
- took up
I told my daughter that she ought to ... a hobby. Start horseback riding, or skiing or something.
- take up
- take after
- take over
- take for
Some students think that the homework teachers give them . . . too much time. They would much prefer to do something else during that time!
- takes over
- takes up
- take for
- take up