The missing second word: complete each two-part verb
She gets up at seven and turns on the kettle. Then she looks for her phone.Each sentence below has lost the small word that follows the verb. Write only that missing word, nothing else. The rest of the sentence always tells you which one is needed, so read to the end before you decide: the clue lies in what is happening around the verb, not in the verb itself.
1. Every day I get ___ at six, an hour before anyone else in the house.
2. Please come in, sit ___ and make yourself comfortable.
3. The film has finished, so could you turn ___ the television?
4. She put ___ her heavy coat because it was snowing outside.
5. I am looking ___ my keys, because I cannot find them anywhere.Show the answers
1. up
2. down
3. off
4. on
5. forItems one and two are a pair of opposites: the particle in the first lifts the body out of bed, the one in the second lowers it onto a seat, and neither verb states that direction by itself. Items three and four take particles that seem to be a matched pair, yet the sentences are not opposites of each other. In the third, the clue is that the programme has ended, so the particle must be the one that stops a machine working. In the fourth, a different verb takes the particle that places a garment over the body; it is written like the particle that starts a machine running, but here it describes position, not power. The fifth is the item learners most often lose: that particle changes simple seeing into searching.