Phrasal Verbs with AWAY Exercises

The particle away adds a sense of departure, removal, or distance to English verbs. For example, go away means to leave a place, throw away means to put something in the bin, and give away means to let someone have something for free. These phrasal verbs are common in everyday English and help you describe actions involving movement or separation from a place, person, or object. Learning them gives you a more natural way to express these ideas than using formal single-word verbs like "depart" or "discard."

Many phrasal verbs with away are separable: "Put your toys away" or "Put away your toys" — but with a pronoun, "Put them away." A useful meaning pattern to notice is that away sometimes suggests gradual disappearance: "fade away" (slowly become weaker), "die away" (gradually become silent), and "melt away" (slowly disappear). The particle can also suggest storage: "put away" (store in the correct place), "lock away" (store securely), "tuck away" (hide in a safe place). These less obvious meanings often appear in B1 and B2 Cambridge exams, so learning both the literal and figurative uses of away is important for exam preparation.