Collins COBUILD Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs: Helping learners with real English

This book provides a systematic coverage of over 3000 phrasal verbs. Meanings are carefully differentiated showing the wide range of sense and usage of verbs such as "take up", "go off" and "fall out". The dictionary shows typical collocations, synonyms and usage level of verbs. Drawing on the COBUILD database the dictionary provides thousands of examples of the typical ways in which everyday, modern English uses phrasal verbs. The syntactic patterns of each verb are set out clearly using a layout similar to the other COBUILD learners' dictionaries.