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Phrasal Verbs / PHRASA~1

Go away

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1. go away p.v. When you leave a place or leave a person, you go away.

Go away! I'm trying to study.

Mark went away not realizing he had left his briefcase behind.

2. go away (for) p.v. When you travel for a period of time, you go away for this time.

We always go away for a few weeks in the winter.

Lydia is going to go away for a while.

3. go away (to) p.v. When you leave your home and live temporarily at another place, such as a school, you go away to that place.

Jane didn't go away to school; she went to a school near her home.

Some young people are nervous about going away to school, but others look forward to it.

4. go away p.v. When a condition, problem, situation, or activity disappears or greatly decreases, it goes away.

l have a pain in my back that never goes away.

If the rain doesn't go away, we'll have to call off the game.