CARRY ON – Phrasal Verb
What is the Meaning of
CARRY ON?
English teaching for English Language Learners (ELL) who are learning to speak English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as an Additional Language (EAL)
carry on
behave (or talk) in an excited, playful or silly, or bad-tempered way
Examples:
1. The children carry on a lot when they have a substitute teacher.
2. When she starts carrying on about politics, I leave the room. She is very angry that the party she voted for didn’t get in.
3. He carried on for several minutes about how his steak wasn’t cooked properly. He yelled that he would never return to that restaurant. We were very embarrassed to be sitting with him.
Definition 2:
continue doing what we you were doing before you were interrupted
Examples:
1. I didn’t mean to stop your work. Carry on.
2. She walked up but then never said anything, so we just carried on.
Note: Many phrasal verbs have more than one definition. Not all the definitions are shown here.
| present – | CARRY ON |
| present participle – | CARRYING ON |
| past – | CARRIED ON |
| past participle – | CARRIED ON |
