Hello everyone, I hope you are all good. Welcome to the Phrasal Verb Series – Day 5! In Day 4 we closed the BRING family. Today it is CARRY — and the difficulty here is the mirror image of yesterday’s. BRING had five verbs that all read like “cause”; CARRY has four that all read like “finish” — out, through, off, on. What separates them is not the meaning but what else is sitting in the sentence: an instruction, an obstacle, a prize, or an activity already running. Learn to look for that, and this family stops being guesswork. Read the story once, learn the meanings, then play the games and take the quiz.
🗺️ The Whole CARRY Family at a Glance
Screenshot this one picture. If you can rebuild it from memory tomorrow, Day 5 is done.
📖 The Story — Kavita Carries It Through
Kavita’s name on the list was not the end of anything. The office sent her a page of instructions, and she had to carry out every one of them — twelve forms, three affidavits, and one photograph the clerk rejected twice without explaining why.
For the whole of February she carried a thin green folder around with her: every certificate, every receipt, in order, two copies each. “Paper is the one thing nobody at a counter can argue with,” Arun told her.
In March she went back to her old college and carried off the district English prize — a hundred rupees and a certificate, nothing more. But it carried weight with the uncle who had once called coaching a waste of money, and that was worth more than the hundred rupees.
Then she nearly spoiled it. One mock went well — 172 — and she got completely carried away: two days of no study and a great deal of talking. Arun said nothing for those two days, then put the score chart in front of her. The next mock was 141.
So they fixed it on paper instead of arguing. The six study hours she had lost were carried forward into the next fortnight, and the March backlog she had not finished carried over into April untouched. Nothing was written off; everything was only moved. “Keep a balance sheet, not a diary,” Arun said.
April was the hardest month, and what carried her through was not motivation — it was the plan: one topic, one test, one honest review. On the worst days she would carry on with just the test and skip the rest. When the final list came out in May, the smell of that regional office carried her back to the February morning when the clerk had rejected her photograph for the second time. This time she laughed about it.
🎞️ Six Verbs in Six Pictures
Look at the picture first, then say the sentence out loud before you read the caption.
📝 Today’s Phrasal Verbs — Meaning, Hindi & Examples
Hindi: जारी रखना
🧠 Memory Trick: ON = चलते रहना। जो पहले से चल रहा है, उसे रुकने न दो। ध्यान दो — carry on के लिए काम पहले से शुरू होना ज़रूरी है; नया काम carry out होता है।
- Meaning 1: to continue doing something that is already going on
- Meaning 2: to keep going in spite of difficulty or interruption
- Meaning 3: to behave in a loud or silly way (informal)
Please carry on with the reading while I check these answers. • She carried on teaching for another twenty years.
continueproceedkeep ongo on
Hindi: पूरा करना / अंजाम देना
🧠 Memory Trick: OUT = कागज़ से बाहर निकालकर कर दिखाना। आदेश, सर्वे, प्रयोग, कर्तव्य — किसी ने तय किया, आपने हक़ीक़त में बदला। पहले कोई निर्देश होना ज़रूरी है।
- Meaning 1: to perform or complete a task, order, duty, survey or experiment
- Meaning 2: to fulfil a promise, plan or threat
The team carried out a survey in four border villages. • He carried out the orders without a single question.
executeperformimplementaccomplish
Hindi: जीत लेना / निभा ले जाना
🧠 Memory Trick: OFF = जीतकर ले उड़ना। इनाम, पदक, पहला स्थान — उठाकर ले गए! दूसरा अर्थ: मुश्किल भूमिका को सबके सामने आराम से निभा देना। दर्शक या इनाम ज़रूरी है।
- Meaning 1: to win a prize, medal or honour
- Meaning 2: to do something difficult successfully, especially in front of others
She carried off the gold medal for the third year running. • He carried off the speech as if he had written it himself.
winsecurepull offbring off
Hindi: भावनाओं में बह जाना
🧠 Memory Trick: AWAY = बहा ले जाना। खुशी या गुस्से की लहर आपको बहा ले गई। लगभग हमेशा passive में: be / get carried away। Active रूप में इसका मतलब सिर्फ़ ‘उठाकर ले जाना’ रह जाता है।
- Meaning 1: (usually passive) to lose self-control because of strong emotion or excitement
- Meaning 2: (literal) to remove or sweep something away
Do not get carried away by one good mock test. • The flood carried away the wooden bridge.
lose controloverexcitesweep awayenrapture
Hindi: आगे ले जाना / अगली अवधि में जोड़ना
🧠 Memory Trick: FORWARD = बहीखाते में आगे। बचा हुआ पैसा, बची छुट्टी, बची vacancy — अगली अवधि में जोड़ दी गई। यह हमेशा गिनी जा सकने वाली चीज़ के साथ आता है, और आप जान-बूझकर ले जाते हैं।
- Meaning 1: to transfer a balance, figure or entitlement to a later period or page
- Meaning 2: to take a piece of work or a plan further
The unused leave was carried forward to the next year. • At the foot of the page he wrote ‘balance carried forward‘.
transferroll overtake furtheradvance
Hindi: अगले समय तक जारी रहना
🧠 Memory Trick: OVER = अपने आप लुढ़ककर अगले हिस्से में। forward आप ले जाते हैं; over खुद बह जाता है — आदत, मूड, झगड़ा, बचा हुआ एजेंडा। हिसाब में दोनों चलते हैं, भावनाओं में सिर्फ़ over।
- Meaning 1: to continue into a later time or a different situation
- Meaning 2: to postpone something to a later date or meeting
His hostel discipline carried over into his office life. • The remaining items were carried over to Monday.
continueextendpersistpostpone
Hindi: पूरा कर दिखाना / सहारा देना
🧠 Memory Trick: THROUGH = बीच में से होकर पार। रुकावट ज़रूरी है! बिना रुकावट carry out, रुकावट के साथ carry through। और अगर object इंसान हो, तो मतलब है — मुश्किल वक़्त में सहारा देना।
- Meaning 1: to complete something successfully in spite of difficulty or opposition
- Meaning 2: to help someone survive a difficult period
Few believed in the reform, but she carried it through. • His mother’s savings carried him through three years of coaching.
see throughcompletesustainsupport
Hindi: साथ लिए घूमना
🧠 Memory Trick: AROUND = जहाँ-जहाँ आप, वहाँ-वहाँ वह। जेब में डायरी, कंधे पर बस्ता — या मन में सालों पुरानी नाराज़गी। चीज़ और भावना, दोनों के साथ चलता है।
- Meaning 1: to take something with you wherever you go
- Meaning 2: to keep a feeling or memory with you for a long time
He carries a pocket notebook around all day. • She has carried that guilt around since school.
totelugkeep with oneharbour
Hindi: यादों में लौटा देना
🧠 Memory Trick: BACK = वक़्त में पीछे। गाना, खुशबू, पुरानी तस्वीर — आपको उठाकर पुराने दिनों में रख देती है। ध्यान दो: कर्ता वह चीज़ होती है, आप नहीं।
- Meaning 1: to make someone remember a past time
- Meaning 2: (literal) to take something back to where it came from
That smell of wet earth carries me back to Rohtak. • Please carry these files back to the office.
remindtake backevokereturn
Hindi: महत्व रखना / वज़न रखना
🧠 Memory Trick: वज़न = असर। जिस बात में वज़न है, वह सुनी जाती है। ध्यान दो — इसमें कोई particle नहीं; आगे with आता है: carries weight with the committee। यही गायब particle exam में सुराग़ है।
- Meaning 1: to be important or influential; to be taken seriously
- Meaning 2: (of an argument or opinion) to have force with someone
The headmaster’s recommendation still carries weight with the board. • His argument carried little weight in the meeting.
mattercountbe influentialhold sway
🧭 The Four Groups — Why the Particle Decides
CARRY always means bear a load along. The particle tells you where that load is going — to a finish line, forward in time, or into somebody’s head — and all ten verbs fall into four clean groups.
1. The load reaches a finish line — out, through, off
All three translate as “accomplish”, which is exactly why they are grouped in exam options. Separate them by what else the sentence contains. Carry out needs an instruction that came from somewhere — an order, a plan, a duty, a survey, a threat: somebody decided, you executed. Carry through needs resistance — opposition, poverty, illness, a reform nobody wanted; take the obstacle out of the sentence and carry through stops sounding right. Carry off needs a prize or an audience — a medal, a role, a speech, a bluff. Nothing won and nobody watching? Then it is not off.
2. The load moves in time — on, forward, over
Here the object decides. Carry on needs something already running; you cannot carry on a task you have not started. Carry forward needs a countable quantity that you move deliberately — a balance, unused leave, leftover vacancies, a figure at the foot of a page. Carry over needs a state that continues by itself — a habit, a mood, a quarrel, a pending agenda item. The real test is agency: you carry a balance forward, but a bad temper carries itself over.
3. The load moves inside a person — away, back, around
Each of these three has a different thing in the driving seat. With carry away the emotion is the agent and you are the object — which is why got carried away is almost the only form you will meet in an exam. With carry back the agent is a song, a smell or a photograph, and the destination is your memory. With carry around you are the agent: the load, a file or a grudge, stays with you.
4. The load keeps no particle at all — carry weight
CARRY’s literal sense is to bear a mass while moving, and carry weight is the one high-frequency item that keeps that picture almost untouched: an opinion with mass is one that is felt. It takes no particle — it takes with, as in “carries weight with the committee”. In a fill-in-the-blank, that missing particle is itself the clue.
⚡ Quick Revision Table
| Phrasal Verb | Core Meaning | Hindi | One-line Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carry on | Continue something in progress | जारी रखना | Carry on with the reading. |
| Carry out | Perform an order or task | पूरा करना | They carried out a survey. |
| Carry off | Win a prize; pull it off | जीत लेना | She carried off the gold medal. |
| Carry away | Lose control through emotion | भावनाओं में बह जाना | Do not get carried away. |
| Carry forward | Transfer a balance onward | आगे ले जाना | The leave was carried forward. |
| Carry over | Continue into a later period | अगले समय तक चलना | The habit carried over into office life. |
| Carry through | Complete despite difficulty | पूरा कर दिखाना | She carried the reform through. |
| Carry around | Keep with you everywhere | साथ लिए घूमना | He carries a notebook around. |
| Carry back | Remind of a past time | यादों में लौटा देना | That song carries me back. |
| Carry weight | Be influential, be taken seriously | महत्व रखना | His word carries weight here. |
🃏 Flashcards — Tap to Flip
Tap each card, say the meaning aloud, then check.
जारी रखना
पूरा करना
जीत लेना
भावनाओं में बह जाना
आगे ले जाना
अगले समय तक चलना
पूरा कर दिखाना
साथ लिए घूमना
यादों में लौटा देना
महत्व रखना
🎮 Game Zone — Play Until It Sticks
Two quick games. Play them once now and once tomorrow — that’s the whole trick.
🎯 Practice Quiz — 10 Questions
1. The committee was asked to ________ a survey in four border villages.
✅ carry out — a survey is an assigned task, so out. Carry off would need a prize.
2. Nobody supported the reform at first, but the minister ________ it ________ anyway.
✅ carried … through — “nobody supported” is the obstacle, and an obstacle always points to through.
3. She ________ the first prize in the state debate for the third year running.
✅ carried off — winning a prize. This is the only one of the family that takes a trophy as its object.
4. He scored 172 in one mock test and got completely ________.
✅ carried away — losing self-control through excitement. Note the passive — got carried away is the exam form.
5. At the foot of the page the accountant wrote ‘balance ________’.
✅ carried forward — the fixed book-keeping phrase for a figure moved to the next page or period.
6. His hostel discipline ________ into his working life years later.
✅ carried over — a habit continuing by itself into a new situation. Nobody moved it, so not forward.
7. Please ________ with the reading; I will be back in ten minutes.
✅ carry on — the reading is already in progress. Carry out would need a fresh instruction.
8. He ________ a small notebook ________ all day and writes every new word in it.
✅ carries … around — keeping a thing with you wherever you go.
9. The smell of wet earth always ________ me ________ to my village.
✅ carries … back — a smell sending you into the past. Carries me away would mean emotion, not memory.
10. In matters of discipline the headmaster’s word still ________ considerable ________.
✅ carries … weight — being taken seriously. The one item in this family with no particle at all.
✍️ Cloze Test — Fill in the Blanks
Type the correct phrasal verb (any tense) and press Check.
- The soldiers ________ their orders to the letter.
- Do not get ________ by a single good score.
- Few believed in the reform, but the minister ________ the whole plan.
- The closing balance was ________ to the next page.
- She ________ the state medal for the second time.
- In that department the registrar’s signature still ________.
🏠 Homework — Write It Once, Remember It Forever
Take your notebook and write one original sentence for each of these, using your own life:
- carry on
- carry out
- carry off
- carry away (passive: got carried away)
- carry forward
- carry over
- carry through (a plan)
- carry through (a person, in hard times)
- carry around / carry back
- carry weight (with someone)
Writing beats re-reading. Ten sentences today are worth two hours of passive revision.
📅 Your 3-Touch Revision Plan
Spaced repetition beats cramming. Tick each touch as you complete it:
🔗 Continue the Series
That’s Day 5 done. The whole CARRY family is in your pocket now — and more usefully, you know what to look for in the sentence before you pick: an instruction means out, an obstacle means through, a prize means off. Revise this page tomorrow morning for five minutes, then again after three days. When you want this drilled under a clock, the SSC Practice Center and the Smart Study Tools have timed English sets; the SSC English Hub keeps every lesson in one place, and the Vocab Series runs alongside this one. See you in Day 6 with the CATCH family. Just focus more!! 💪