Phrasal Verbs Practice – 63
.Correct the ten mistakes with phrasal verbs in this paragraph
Oliver has always wanted to become an engineer, but it was quite difficult for him to get a place at college. He didn’t get in at his first attempt, losing off to applicants with better exam grades. However, at his second try he succeeded to win a place. He then sailed over all his first-year exams but failed some of his exams in the second year, as he started spending a lot of time on the rugby pitch, playing for the college first team, rather than in the library. Then his team fell back in the college league after three games, so he wasn’t too happy and did even less work, and as a result he failed three exams. However, he’s always prided himself for being able to revise very efficiently when he’s really under pressure, and in the third year he did enough to pull himself across. His friends were amazed that he managed to carry it out, as they were sure he could not have packed up enough study in such a short time to get by the exams. But Oliver knew that he had only just got over and he resolved to organise his life much better after leaving college
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Oliver has always wanted to become an engineer, but it was quite difficult for him to get a place at college. He didn’t get in at his first attempt, losing out to applicants with better exam grades. However, at his second try he succeeded in winning a place. He then sailed through all his first-year exams but failed some of his exams in the second year, as he started spending a lot of time on the rugby pitch, playing for the college first team, rather than in the library. Then his team fell behind in the college league after three games, so he wasn’t too happy and did even less work, and as a result he failed three exams. However, he’s always prided himself on being able to revise very efficiently when he’s really under pressure, and in the third year he did enough to pull himself through. His friends were amazed that he managed to carry it off, as they were sure he could not have packed in enough study in such a short time to get through the exams. But Oliver knew that he had only just got by/through and he resolved to organise his life much better after leaving college
