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8 USEFUL
PHRASAL VERBS!
Add up
Blow up
If you “add up” numbers, you find the total.
“They added up the numbers and the total If you “blow up” balloons, you will fill them
was 64.” with air.
If something doesn’t “add up”, it doesn’t “We blew up sixteen balloons for her
make sense. birthday party.”
“There’s something fishy about his story. If a bomb “blows up”, it explodes.
It doesn’t add up.” “A bomb blew up and destroyed the building.”
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Come across
Bring up
If you “come across” someone or
something, you find it accidentally
If you “bring up” a child, you take care of it, or by chance.
feed it, educated it, etc. until it’s an adult. “I was walking around Naples
“She was brought up by her grandparents when I came across my old friend
as both her parents had died.” Ben.”
If you “bring up” a topic, you mention it while If someone “comes across” as
you’re speaking. intelligent (for example) they
“Don’t bring up the topics of holidays or seem to be very intelligent.
benefits during the first interview.” “I met my new line manager
today. She comes across as a bit
bossy.”