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Use common study, work and information phrasal verbs and their object patterns.
Overview
Use common study, work and information phrasal verbs and their object patterns.
Form and rules
Find out means discover information; look something up means search for specific information.
Fill in/out a form means complete it; hand something in means submit it.
Go over something means review or examine it carefully.
Look up, fill in and hand in are separable with pronouns: look it up, fill it in, hand it in.
Find out can be followed by a noun, question word or clause: find out the price / find out where it is.
A closer look
Look up, fill in and hand in are separable with pronouns: look it up, fill it in, hand it in.
Find out can be followed by a noun, question word or clause: find out the price / find out where it is.
Examples
I found out the meeting was cancelled.
Look the word up in a dictionary.
Please fill in this form.
I handed my assignment in yesterday.
Let's go over the figures again.
Common mistakes
Find out means discover information.
Look something up means search for information.
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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.