English Grammar @ Phrases & Meanings For GSSSB, GSRTC, SSC, GPSC, UPSC, RRB All Competitive Exam

••     English Grammar @ Phrases & Meanings For GSSSB, GSRTC, SSC, GPSC, UPSC, RRB All Competitive Exam

••     Phrases & Meanings

Set up - to start | establish a company.

Break down - to lose control of your feelings and start crying.

Set off - to start on a journey.

Put up - to tolerate a situation or a person

Put off - to postpone

Put on - to wear

Come in - to enter

Come across - to meet or find by chance

Come up against - to be faced with or opposed by

Turn down - to refuse | reject

Turn in to - to inform or deliver up

Turn to - to try to get help | advice | sympathy from someone

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**   Now use the phrases given above to complete the following sentences.

1. The landlord was suspicious of the two men staying in his flat so he called the police and _____________them _____________.

2. Early in the morning we packed our bags and _____________ for a hike over the mountain.

3. Janvi _____________some photographs of her grandfather in the old trunk.

4. My father _____________ his own business 10 years ago.

5. The Bank _____________ Paul's request for a loan.

6. The Corporation's decision to reduce the leave of the employees _____________ a lot of opposition.

••     Answer

1. Turned -- in

2. Set off

3. Came across

4. Set up

5. Turned down

6. Come up against