Intransitive Phrasal Verbs <table class="shadow" width="600" border="6" cellpadding="6" bgcolor="white"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="green">Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
The following phrasal verbs are not followed by an object: "Once you leave home, you can never really go back again."</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="blue" width="75">Verb</td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="blue" width="75">Meaning</td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="blue" width="450">Example</td> </tr> <tr> <td>break down</td> <td>stop functioning</td> <td>That old Jeep had a tendency to break down just when I needed it the most.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>catch on</td> <td>become popular</td> <td>Popular songs seem to catch on in California first and then spread eastward.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>come back</td> <td>return to a place</td> <td>Father promised that we would never come back to this horrible place.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>come in</td> <td>enter</td> <td>They tried to come in through the back door, but it was locked.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>come to</td> <td>regain consciousness</td> <td>He was hit on the head very hard, but after several minutes, he started to come to again.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>come over</td> <td>to visit</td> <td>The children promised to come over, but they never do.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>drop by</td> <td>visit without appointment</td> <td>We used to just drop by, but they were never home, so we stopped doing that.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>eat out</td> <td>dine in a restaurant</td> <td>When we visited Paris, we loved eating out in the sidewalk cafes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>get by</td> <td>survive</td> <td>Uncle Heine didn't have much money, but he always seemed to get by without borrowing money from relatives.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>get up</td> <td>arise</td> <td>Grandmother tried to get up, but the couch was too low, and she couldn't make it on her own.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>go back</td> <td>return to a place</td> <td>It's hard to imagine that we will ever go back to Lithuania.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>go on</td> <td>continue</td> <td>He would finish one Dickens novel and then just go on to the next.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>go on (2)</td> <td>happen</td> <td>The cops heard all the noise and stopped to see what was going on.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>grow up</td> <td>get older</td> <td>Charles grew up to be a lot like his father.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>keep away</td> <td>remain at a distance</td> <td>The judge warned the stalker to keep away from his victim's home.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>keep on (with gerund)</td> <td>continue with the same</td> <td>He tried to keep on singing long after his voice was ruined.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>pass out</td> <td>lose consciousness, faint</td> <td>He had drunk too much; he passed out on the sidewalk outside the bar.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>show off</td> <td>demonstrate haughtily</td> <td>Whenever he sat down at the piano, we knew he was going to show off.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>show up</td> <td>arrive</td> <td>Day after day, Efrain showed up for class twenty minutes late.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>wake up</td> <td>arouse from sleep</td> <td>I woke up when the rooster crowed.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>