Phrasal verbs with CALL; call back, call off, call after

English phrasal verb lessons: call after, call off, call back

 call back

– return a phone call

• – Brrr Brrrrr ” Hi, John? I’m sorry I can’t talk now, I’ll call you back in half-an-hour, OK?”
• – Mum! Dad phoned earlier, can you call him back?

call off

– cancel

• – The weather was so bad that they had to call the football match off.
• – John and Mary decided to call off their wedding. They weren’t sure that they wanted to be together.

call after

– give a child the same name as someone or something else

• – Their first son, Leo, is called after the father’s favourite footballer.
• – the “sandwich” was called after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

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