Formal & Informal verbs

Alhora d'escriure formal o informalment,  s'utilitzen uns verbs u altres, per considerar-se més adequats, a la següent graella podem trobar un exemple.

Verbs

Informal	Formal	Significat
Say sorry	Apologize	Disculpa
Go up	Increase	Augmentar
Go down	Decrease	Disminuir
Set up	Establish	Configuració
Look at	Examine	Examinar
blow up	explode	Explotar
find out	discover	Descobrir
bring about	cause	Causa
put off	postpone, delay	Enrederit
rack up	accumulate	Acumular
make up	fabricate	Fer
stand for	represent	Significar
find out	discover, ascertain	Disculpa
leave out	omit	Excloure
point out	indicate	Puntualitzar
go against	oppose	En contra de
get in touch with	contact	Contactar
It’s about	It concerns, It’s in regards to	Referent a
need to	required	Necessari
think about	consider	tindre en conte
get	obtain	Obtindre
put up	tolerate	?¿
deal with	handle	Tractar un tema
seem	appear	Aparentar
show	demonstrate, illustrate, portray	Ensenyar alguna cosa
start	commence	Començar
keep	retain	Mantindre
free	release	Alliberar
get on someone’s nerves	bother
ring up	call	Cridar
show up	arrive	?¿
let	permit	Permetre
fill in	substitute	Substituir
block	undermine	Desautorizar
give the go ahead, greenlight	authorize, authorise	Autorizar