phrasal verb betydelse and definition

Exempel på phrasal verb

• The phrasal verb 'heal up' is intransitive.

• Some phrasal verbs consist of three words, such as 'look up to'.

• She was puzzled and intrigued, because she had no idea what a phrasal verb might be.

• There is a third complication that needs to be borne in mind when dealing with these expressions, and that is the term phrasal verb itself.

• My own term for this usage has for some years been a fused or non-separable phrasal verb.

• This method of indicating the collocates of a phrasal verb, then, has two advantages.

• The collocates listed represent a wider range of nouns which could combine with the phrasal verb as its subject (we might, for example, have included date, time or details).

• Nonetheless, the phrasal verb is as much a part of grammar and word-formation as the complex sentence, the compound word, the subordinate clause, or the prefix.