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Prasal verbs

Posted by HCD on February 25, 2001

In Reply to: Snake and stick and dog posted by Sebastian Schneider on February 23, 2001

: : Point well taken. Your English looks good to me! What I've found interesting is how old some phrases are. So many of our modern sayings, in several languages, have a common ancestor.

: I agree ... the dog-thingy seems to be common in all roman languages. My latin-teacher once told me, that this phrase's origin is roman - they used this a long time ago, and I believe that it just has been adapted by all languages that derivated from latin (german, english, spanish, italian etc.)

: Cheers
: Sebastian

I'd like to know the meaning of the followings phrasal verbs: Pair up with. Phrase in context: Our assistant editor, Clarisse Azevedo, hade the experence and paired up with Johnathan Amacker to tell you all about it.
and
Check on. Phrase in context: Now to my surprise, I can listen without reading, only having some unknown words to check on.
Thanks, HCD

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