Phrasal Verbs with OUT Exercises

The particle out is extremely common in English phrasal verbs. It often suggests movement from inside to outside, completion, or distribution. For example, go out means to leave a place, find out means to discover information, and hand out means to give something to each person in a group. Many phrasal verbs with out are among the most useful in everyday English because they cover actions we do constantly — from working things out to pointing things out to others.

The particle out sometimes adds a sense of thoroughness or extinction: "The fire went out" (it stopped burning completely) or "We sorted out the problem" (we solved it fully). Some phrasal verbs with out are separable: "She worked it out" (never "worked out it"). Others are inseparable, like "run out of" (use all of something). Learning which category each verb belongs to takes practice, but the pronoun test helps: if you can put "it" between the verb and out, the verb is separable. Cambridge B1 Preliminary and IELTS exams frequently test these common phrasal verbs.