{"id":304,"date":"2013-04-07T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2013-04-07T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T13:19:28","slug":"phrasal-verb-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: break down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b><\/b><strong>break down<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Intransitive<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Meaning: <\/strong>stop functioning<br \/>\n<strong>Example: <\/strong>His car <strong>broke down<\/strong> on the way to California<b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Jack Johnson is one of my favorite musicians.\u00a0 Listen to his song, \u201c<strong>Breakdown<\/strong>.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4O7ufx9D_s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4O7ufx9D_s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02. <\/b><strong>break down<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Intransitive<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Meaning:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>get upset (intransitive)<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Example: <\/strong>She<strong> broke down <\/strong>when she heard the terrible news.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a03.<\/b><strong> break<\/strong> <i>something <\/i><strong>down<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em>Transitive, Separable<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Meaning:<\/strong> divide into smaller parts<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Example:<\/strong> The test is <strong>broken down<\/strong> into a speaking, listening and reading portion. \u00a0 (This sentence is in passive voice). \u00a0The teacher <strong>broke down<\/strong> the test into three parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quintcareers.com\/action_verbs.html\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; break down Intransitive Meaning: stop functioning Example: His car broke down on the way to California. Jack Johnson is one of my favorite musicians.\u00a0 Listen to his song, \u201cBreakdown.\u201d http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4O7ufx9D_s \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02. break down \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}