Phrasal Verb: Put Off

to postpone

Examples

• Don't put off your homework.

Key rules

• Put off means postpone something to a later time
• It is separable: put off the meeting or put the meeting off
• With a pronoun, the pronoun goes in the middle: put it off
• Use a gerund after "put off" when an activity is postponed

Common mistakes

• Put off it → Put it off
• I keep putting off to call him → I keep putting off calling him