Outro exemplo de como soar mais informal: você pode dizer "I'll look into it". Você usou "look into". Já para ser mais formal você usaria "I'll investigate it". A tradução nos dois casos é a mesma "Vou investigar isso", a diferença é como você soou para o seu interlocutor.
Ao usar phrasal verbs você está escolhendo ser mais informal. Ao usar verbos de uma só palavra, você está escolhendo ser mais formal. A escolha é sua e depende - é claro - do contexto, mas na maioria das vezes você poderá querer usar os phrasal verbs.
E aqui vai a lista dos 85 verbos frasais mais comuns ou usados. Alguns destes verbos podem ter mais de um significado, aqui vou tratar dos usos mais comuns.
Note que todos os verbos marcados com asterisco (*) são não-separáveis, por exemplo: "I called on Dan" é o correto e não "I called Dan on". Os demais verbos podem ser usados juntos ou separados: "I brought the children up" ou "I brought up the children", as duas formas podem ser usados. Para facilitar, tenha em mente que a maioria pode ser separado.
Ask out: ask someone to go on a date
Bring about: cause
Bring up: 1) rear children 2) mention or introduce a topic
Call back: return a telephone call
Call in: ask to come to an official place for a special reason
Call off: cancel
Call on*: 1) visit 2) ask a student a question in class
Call up: call on the telephone
Catch up with*: reach the same position or level as someone
Check in*: register at a hotel
Check into*: investigate
Check out: 1) borrow a book from a library 2) investigate
Cheer up: make (someone) feel happier
Clean up: make clean and orderly
Come across*: find by chance
Cross out: draw a line through
Cut out: stop an annoying activity
Do over: repeat
Drop by*: visit informally
Drop in (on)*: visit informally
Drop off: leave something/someone somewhere
Drop out (of)*: stop going to school or class
Figure out: find the answer by logic
Fill out: complete a form
Find out: discover information
Get along (with)*: to have a good relationship with
Get back (from): 1) return from somewhere 2) receive again
Get in, get into*: 1) enter a car 2) arrive
Get off*: leave any vehicle
Get on*: enter any vehicle
Get out of*: 1) leave a car 2) avoid some unpleasant activity
Get over*: recover from an illness
Get through*: finish
Get up*: arise from bed, a chair etc.
Give back: return something to someone
Give up: stop doing something
Go over*: review or check
Grow up*: become an adult
Hand in: submit an assignment
Hang up: 1) stop a telephone conversation 2) put up clothes on a line or a hook
Have on: wear
Keep out (of): not enter
Keep up (with)*: stay at the same position or level
Kick out (of): force (someone) to leave
Look after*: take care of
Look into*: investigate
Look out (for)*: be careful
Look over: review or check
Look up: look for information in a reference book
Make up: 1) invent 2) do past work
Name after: give a baby the name of someone else
Pass away*: die
Pass out: 1) distribute 2) lose consciousness
Pick out: select
Pick up: 1) go to get someone 2) take in one's hand
Point out: call someone's attention to
Put away: remove to an appropriate place
Put back: return to original position
Put off: postpone
Put on: dress
Put out: extinguish a cigarette, fire
Put up with*: tolerate
Run into: meet by chance
Run across: find by chance
Run out (of): finish a supply of something
Show up*: appear, come to
Shut off: stop a machine, equipment, light etc.
Take after*: resemble
Take off: 1) remove clothing 2) leave on a trip 3) leave the ground (aeroplane)
Take out: 1) take someone on a date 2) remove
Take over: take control
Take up: 1) begin a new activity 2) tear into many little pieces
Tear down: demolish, reduce to nothing
Think over: consider
Throw away: discard; get rid of
Throw out: discard; get rid of
Throw up: vomit
Try on: put on clothing to see if it fits
Turn down: decrease volume
Turn in: 1) submit classwork 2) go to bed
Turn off: stop a machine, equipment, light etc.
Turn on: start a machine, equipment, light etc.
Turn out: extinguish a light
Turn up: increase volume or intensity
Wake up: stop sleeping
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