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Phrasal Verbs / PHRASA~1

Live with

live with & lives with living with lived with lived with

1. live with p.v. When you live with someone, you live at the same address. When you say that one person lives with a person of the opposite sex, you mean that they live in the same place but are not married.

Living with my in-laws is driving me crazy.

Mike's been living with his girlfriend for five years. Are they ever going to get married?

2. live with p.v. When you live with a disease or other problem, you endure or put up with it.

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Living with this disease is not easy.

t can't change the situation, so I'll just have to learn to live with it.

3. live with p.v. When you live with shame, guilt, or a painful memory, you continue with your life in spite of the shame, guilt, or painful memory.

Jake committed suicide rather than live with the shame of what he had done.

He said he couldn't go on living with the knowledge that he had caused the death of 14 innocent people.

Infinitive

present tense

-ing form

past tense

past participle

make of

make of & makes of

making of

made of

made of

1. make of p.v. What you make of something is your understanding or opinion of it.

So what did you make of the prime minister's speech?

What he said was so strange that I didn't know what to make of it.