Phrasal Verbs with FOLLOW

Phrasal Verbs with FOLLOW (with Meanings and Examples)

Phrasal verbs are one of the secret ingredients of natural English. Native speakers use them constantly — in conversations, films, emails, and everyday situations. If you want to sound more fluent and understand real English more easily, you simply can’t avoid them. The good news? You don’t have to learn them all at once. The best way is to learn them in small, logical groups. In today’s lesson, we will focus on useful phrasal verbs with FOLLOW — expressions you’ll hear and use in daily life, at work, and in exams like B2 First (FCE) and C1 Advanced (CAE).

Let’s follow along. 😉

Follow around / Follow about

Meaning: to go with someone everywhere they go, often in an annoying or persistent way.

• A stray dog followed us around all morning.
• The famous actress was followed around by journalists and photographers.

Follow along

Meaning: to do the same as others or to understand and copy what is being shown or explained.

• I didn’t know the way, so I just followed along with the other cars.
• The students were asked to follow along and repeat the steps shown in the video.

Follow back

Meaning: to follow someone in return on social media.

• If someone follows you on Instagram, you can follow them back.
• Thanks for following me — I’ve followed you back!

Follow on

Meaning: to go somewhere after someone else or to come later in time.

• You go ahead and order the food — I’ll follow on in a minute.
• We’ll finish the meeting here and follow on with the discussion next week.

Follow on from

Meaning: to happen as a result of something else; to come after something logically or naturally.

• Their decision followed on from the discussion they had the week before.
• University often follows on from secondary school.

Follow through

Meaning: to do what is necessary to complete something; to finish what you started.

• If you follow through the instructions carefully, you’ll build the bookcase without any problems.
• He promised to help — and this time, he actually followed through.

Follow up

Meaning: to take further action, to find out more, or to continue something that has already been started.

• The police decided to follow up the leads and eventually caught the robber.
• I’m writing to follow up on our meeting from last week.

These expressions are extremely useful because they appear in everyday conversation, emails and work situations, news and articles and Cambridge exams and speaking tests.

Instead of saying, I continued the investigation.

you can say, I followed it up.

Instead of He finished what he started,

you can say, He followed through.

Learning phrasal verbs is not about memorising long lists. It is about meeting them again and again in real contexts — and slowly making them part of your own English.

So don’t just read this lesson. Follow it up with practice. And follow through. 😉

Phrasal verbs with FOLLOW

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