Babysitter Phrasal Verbs 3

Advanced phrasal verbs for babysitters and childcare workers — complex expressions for professional communication.

Vocabulary in context

At this advanced level, babysitter and nanny phrasal verbs cover the full range of professional childcare communication — including the ones that appear in formal contexts like written daily reports, conversations with other childcare professionals, and the kind of communication with parents that requires both precision and tact. Phrases like follow through on, bring up, look into, work on, and keep up with appear in professional childcare English in ways that go beyond the daily routine. This exercise builds fluency with those verbs so that your English works as well in a formal childcare context as it does in a casual one.

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Choose which of the three prepositions goes with the verb in each sentence.
EXAMPLE: I'll take out (on, out, off) the trash.

1. I'm sorry, I mixed ________ (= confused) the dates.
2. She nodded ________ (= fell asleep) on the couch.
3. You can always count ________ me! (= trust me to do something)
4. Watch ________! = Be careful!
5. Sorry I'm late. My car broke ________. (= stopped working)
6. Take ________ (= remove) your socks if they're wet.
7. I look ________ to seeing you again!
8. Your mom said you have to cut ________ on sweets. (= you have to eat fewer sweets)
9. To put on a Spiderman costume = To dress _______ as Spiderman
10. I don't want to come ________ as (= to seem) pushy.
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