Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 - Icons for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read three extracts from the article on page 105 and answer the questions below.
  2. Read the advice for learning multi-word verbs. Which pieces of advice do you agree with?

Answer

a)

  1. a) stand up for (talk in support of); b) came up with (thought of ideas, plans, etc.); c) put up with (tolerate)
  2. No, it isn't possible to split three-part multi-word verbs.
  3. The stress is on the first particle, i.e. up.

b)

The only piece of advice which is not a good idea is point 2.