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.