Separable Phrasal Verbs

To invite someone to come with you to a place such as the cinema or a restaurant, especially as a way of starting a romantic relationship

• ask out

• help out

• figure out

to telephone again

• call back

• give back

• pay back

the act of making a place clean and tidy

• figure out

• try on

• clean up

make a cut to see what's inside doing in a way that would not result in dividing the thing you are cutting into two pieces

• figure out

• cut open

• plug in

to understand or solve something

• clean up

• think over

• figure out

to do someone else's work for them because they cannot or will not do it themselves

• clean up

• try on

• fill in

to return something to the person who gave it to you

• call back

• give back

• pay back

to help someone, especially by doing a particular job or by giving them money

• clean up

• help out

• try on

to return money to someone from whom you have borrowed it

• pay back

• give back

• put on

to connect a piece of equipment to an electricity supply or to another piece of equipment

• fill in

• plug in

• turn on