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Use common travel and movement phrasal verbs accurately, including separable object patterns.
Overview
Use common travel and movement phrasal verbs accurately, including separable object patterns.
Form and rules
Set off means begin a journey; get back means return.
Pick someone up means collect them, often by car; drop someone off means take them somewhere and leave them there.
Check in means register at a hotel or airport; check out can mean leave a hotel after paying.
Pick up and drop off are separable: pick Ana up / pick her up.
Learn the whole phrasal verb with its object pattern because particles change meaning.
A closer look
Pick up and drop off are separable: pick Ana up / pick her up.
Learn the whole phrasal verb with its object pattern because particles change meaning.
Examples
We set off before sunrise.
What time did you get back?
I'll pick you up at the station.
Can you drop me off here?
We checked in online.
Common mistakes
Set off means begin a journey.
Pick someone up means collect them.
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The test combines multiple choice, gap completion, error correction, and sentence building so students have to recognise and produce the grammar, not simply reread the rule.