a phrase that consists of averbwith aprepositionoradverbor both, themeaningof which is different from themeaningofitsseparateparts:
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"Pay for", "workout", and "make up for" are allphrasalverbs.pay for， work out 和 make up for 都是短语动词。
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Thephrasalverb'healup' isintransitive.
Somephrasalverbsconsist of three words, such as 'lookup to'.
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Verbs: multi-word verbs
Multi-word verbs are verbs which consist of a verb and one or two particles or prepositions (e.g. up, over, in, down). There are three types of multi-word verbs: phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs and phrasal-prepositional verbs. Sometimes, the name ‘phrasal verb’ is used to refer to all three types.…
Phrasal verbs
Phrasal verbs have two parts: a main verb and an adverb particle.…
Prepositional verbs
Prepositional verbs have two parts: a verb and a preposition which cannot be separated from each other:…
Prepositional verbs or phrasal verbs?
Not all phrasal verbs need an object. Prepositional verbs (e.g. listen to, depend on) always have an object after the preposition:…
Phrasal-prepositional verbs
Phrasal-prepositional verbs have three parts: a verb, a particle and a preposition. The particle and the preposition cannot be separated. Many of these verbs are often used in informal contexts, and their meaning is difficult to guess from their individual parts.…
acombinationof a verb and anadverbor a verb and apreposition, or both, in which thecombinationhas ameaningdifferent from themeaningof the wordsconsideredseparately:
She was puzzled and intrigued, because she had no idea what aphrasalverbmight be.
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There is a third complication that needs to be borne in mind when dealing with these expressions, and that is the termphrasalverbitself.
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My own term for this usage has for some years been a fused or non-separablephrasalverb.
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This method of indicating the collocates of aphrasalverb, then, has two advantages.
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The collocates listed represent a wider range of nouns which could combine with thephrasalverbas its subject (we might, for example, have included date, time or details).
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Nonetheless, thephrasalverbis as much a part of grammar and word-formation as the complex sentence, the compound word, the subordinate clause, or the prefix.
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In the case of make up in the sense 'apply cosmetics', for example, face, nose and eyes are all familiar, recurrent collocates of thephrasalverb.
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Modern theories of syntax tend to use the term "phrasalverb" to denote particle verbs only; they do not view prepositional verbs as phrasal verbs.
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However, when to hold up means "to rob", it is aphrasalverb.
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Some such compound nouns have a correspondingphrasalverbbut some do not, partly because of historical developments.
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Aphrasalverbis used in an idiomatic, figurative or even metaphorical context.
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As a class, early system morphemes include determiners, plural affixes, as well as satellites in what are sometimes called phrasal verbs.
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Many newspapers and periodicals regularly incorporate phrasal verbs into their headlines.
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It sometimes indicates direction in phrasal verbs (verb-adverb combinations) like stand up or get up or fill up.
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In addition, two kinds of noun are commonly formed from phrasal verbs.
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