Verb - Noun 1

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Verb - Noun 1

This exercise practises creating nouns from phrasal verbs by changing the stress (shown in italics) from the adverb to the verb, for example:

take away (verb) take-away (noun)

Here is a list of phrasal verbs. Make nouns from them and put them in the correct places in the text. One of them is in the past participle form and there are two plurals. The nouns may or may not be written with a hyphen, depending on how long they have been in use.

break down, break up, clear out, grow up, hand out, lay off, set back, turn around, walk out

Life can be terrible sometimes. Just a few months ago I was happy and

contented, but now my life has changed completely. First my employer

announced that the company was losing money and so there were 100 (1)

________________ including me. Then my wife decided to leave because of

a (2) ________________ in communication. She said that I was acting like

a child and not a (3) ________________.

A week after her (4) ________________ I decided to change my life

completely, so I looked through all my things and had a complete (5)

________________ of the things that I didn't need. I was not going to let

my (6) ________________ with my wife destroy my life. I believe that life is

full of (7) ________________ and problems but you have to deal with them.

I looked around for a new job as I didn't want to live on state (8)

_______________ for long. Now I've got a good job and a new relationship,

and my life has had a real (9) ________________. I'm happy once again.