During a lesson on phrasal verbs, an English teacher
presented four sentences and asked students to identify
the one in which the phrasal verb is used intransitively —
that is, without a direct object following the verb-particle
combination: (I) "Don't give up — the situation might
improve"; (II) "She handed the forms in at the reception
desk"; (III) "They turned the offer down without
hesitation"; (IV) "She gave away all her old books last
week." The sentence containing an intransitive phrasal
verb is: