Hang Up: (5)

Grammar Tense Structure:

  • Present Tense: hang / hangs up
  • Past Tense: hung up
  • Past Participle: hung up
  • Present Participle: hanging up

1: When you stop talking on the telephone and put down the receiver, you hang up the telephone. /
When you are angry and hang up the telephone without saying good-bye to someone, you hang up on the person you are talking to.

non-separable phrasal verb

  • My sister takes forever to hang up the phone when she’s speaking to her best friend.
  • My father gets so mad at unsolicited calls day and night that now he just hangs up on them as soon as he realizes it’s a sales call.

2: When you hang something in a high place so that it cannot touch the ground, you hang it up.

separable & non-separable phrasal verb

  • I was absolutely drenched from the storm when I got home, I immediately hung up my jacket and took off my boots.
  • I hung my jacket up when I came in to keep the place tidy.
  • My youngster sister is so messy her room is scattered with clothes, she never hangs them up in the wardrobe.

3: After you have hung something in a high place so that it cannot touch the ground, it is hung up.

adjective

  • My mother is always asking my sister why her clothes are always on the floor or on the back of chairs and not hung up in the wardrobe

4: To miss someone through perhaps the breakup of a relationship, you are said to be hung up on them

adjective

  • He split up with his partner two years ago but is still hung up on her.
  • She’s still hung up on the breakdown in her marriage even though it’s been a few years now

5: If you are self-conscious about some of your flaws, you are said to have a hang up

noun

  • He’s going slightly bald and is losing his hair and is starting to get quite hung up over it.
  • He’s quite confident and doesn’t seem to have any of the normal teenage hang-ups.

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