By studying the exercises in this book, you will be learning the most
frequent phrasal verbs and associated phrases (collocations) in American English and you will
be working with sentences based on real American English.
American Phrasal Verbs is designed to help you improve your understanding of the most
frequently used phrasal verbs in everyday English. The phrasal verbs and the phrases and
sentences used in this book have been selected on the basis of an analysis of real American
English: both spoken and written.
Frequency. Phrasal verbs are very common in English, especially spoken English. The
frequency is indicated at the top of each unit by a number of circles.