This grammar exercise tests your ability to use phrasal verbs with put. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate preposition or adverb particle.
1. Here is your new blanket. Put it ................................ in the closet.
To put something away is to put it in the dresser or closet.
2. Once you have finished playing with your toys, put them ...................
To put something back is to return it to the location it came from.
3. My brother is a bully. He tries to put me ...................... every time I open my mouth.
To put someone down is to criticize them or humiliate them.
4. The dog was terminally ill. So we decided to put him ....................
To put an animal down is to kill it to end its suffering.
5. If you don't mind, I would like to put ........................... a suggestion.
To put a suggestion forward is to offer it for consideration.
6. If you keep putting .................... that assignment, you will never finish it.
To put something off is to delay doing it.
7. His rude manners really put me .....................
When something puts you off, it makes you repulsed or disgusted.
8. You won the first prize! No way - you are putting me ...................
To put somebody on is to trick them.
9. Please put ...................... your coat. I am taking you to the doctor.
To put on clothes is to wear them.
10. Much of the building had already been destroyed before the firemen managed to put ..................... the fire.
To put out fire is to extinguish it.
11. Will it be alright if I arrive a little early? I am asking this because I do not want to put you ................ in any way.
To put somebody out is to inconvenience them.
12. Can you put me ........................ to the manager, please?
To put someone through to somebody is to connect them to that person.
Answers
1. Here is your new blanket. Put it away in the closet.
2. Once you have finished playing with your toys, put them back.
3. My brother is a bully. He tries to put me down every time I open my mouth.
4. The dog was terminally ill. So we decided to put him down.
5. If you don’t mind, I would like to put forward a suggestion.
6. If you keep putting off that assignment, you will never finish it.
7. His rude manners really put me off.
8. You won the first prize! No way – you are putting me on.
9. Please put on your coat. I am taking you to the doctor.
10. Much of the building had already been destroyed before the firemen managed to put out the fire.
11. Will it be alright if I arrive a little early? I am asking this because I do not want to put you out in any way.
12. Can you put me through to the manager, please?
