To really learn phrasal verbs effectively, you have to learn
the common meanings of this word.
That way you'll learn thousands of new words instantly.
Alone,
“AWAY” means “To have distance between two things.”
They are separate from each other.
For example, where's Aly?
I don't know.
He's away. He's not here.
But let's add a verb before “AWAY”.
Now we talk about how you created that distance between the two things.
Just for example, if your friend said,
I've been practicing my singing, can I sing for you?
And your reaction is
“UUUHHHHhhhhhhh.....”
Yeah. You don't want this.
So you want to create distance between you, too.
But how are you going to create the distance?
If you create distance by walking
You WALK AWAY
as a sentence.
“He walked away” in the past tense
and instantly you just learned thousands of new phrasal verbs!!!! :)
How?
Because we can change that method of creating distance.
How else could you create distance?
If you run to create distance.
You run away.
Or in the past tense, ran away.
Again, this says WHAT happened - “Create a distance”
The verb says HOW it happened.
Did you walk? Did you run away?
Did you dance away?
Walk away.
Run away.
Dance away. In a car.
How did your dad leave you? Drive away.
Any VERB + AWAY creates distance.
Or maybe you're dating someone, I know...