English Grammar - Idioms and Phrases

English Grammar
English Grammar - Idioms and Phrases

Choose the correct phrasal verb to fill the blank space of the following sentence : Burglars ………… and stole the jewellery.


Options:

  1. broke out
  2. broke down
  3. broke off
  4. broke in

Right Answer: broke in

The phrasal verb ‘break in’ means to enter a building forcibly, usually in order to steal, which is exactly what the sentence describes. The other options carry quite different senses: ‘break out’ means to escape or, of a war or disease, to begin suddenly; ‘break down’ means to stop functioning, or to lose emotional control, or to analyse something into parts; and ‘break off’ means to end a relationship or discontinue something abruptly. Phrasal verbs of this kind are idiomatic, so the particle cannot be predicted from the meaning of the base verb.

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