EXERCISE 1 � Some of the confusing phrasal verbs are given below. Try to understand their meanings via examples. Their meanings are given in the word box. Try to put them in the correct places in the exercise.

WORD BOX: Appear, Reveal, Display, Surrender(x2), Abandon, Quit, Submit, Explode, Promote, Fill, Increase, Extinguish, Defeat

EXERCISE 2 � Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the word box.

WHAT DID WE USE? � We used a corpus to find all of these sentences. A corpus is a collection of linguistic data, either compiled as wirtten text or a transcription of recorded speech. For example, we used SkeLL as our main corpus.