PHRASAL VERBS WITH ON

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COLLINS COBUILD - ONThree important meanings:A - CONTINUINGDrag on Get onKeep onPass onRamble onStay on

B – PROGRESSINGCome onGet onMove onUrge on

C - BEGINNINGBring onCatch onCome onMove on to

D – OTHER MEANINGSGet on Go onLay onLook onTake on

EXAMPLES:A – CONTINUING Keep on

If he keeps on doing this, he’ll disturb the others.

EXAMPLES:A – CONTINUING Drag on

His nap’s dragged on for fifty years.

EXAMPLES:A – CONTINUING Go on

He can’t go on without a shoelace.

EXAMPLES:B – Progressing Get on

He’s not getting on well in his diet

EXAMPLES:B – Progressing Move on

Time moves on for everybody

EXAMPLES:B – Progressing Come on

Her garden is coming on nicely.

EXAMPLES:C - Beginning Catch on

He hasn’t caught on to the new computer system.

EXAMPLES:C - Beginning bring on

He was out in the snow all day long and this brought on a bad

cold.

EXAMPLES:D – Other meanings get along

They’ve never got on well

EXAMPLES:D – Other meanings to happen

A party was going on and he didn’t notice that.