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    distinguish particle verbs and prepositional verbs as two types of phrasal verbs. Since a prepositional phrase can complement a particle verb, some explanations...
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    Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are...
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  • article on "list of phrasal verbs", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entries "Category:English phrasal verbs" You can also: Search...
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    Irregular verbs in Modern English include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently used English verbs are all irregular. New verbs (including...
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    infinitive. English also makes frequent use of constructions traditionally called phrasal verbs, verb phrases that are made up of a verb root and a preposition...
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    "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification...
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  • 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in "inconvenienced") and other multiword expressions...
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    central English modal auxiliary verbs are can (with could), may (with might), shall (with should), will (with would), and must. A few other verbs are usually...
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    verb, held. The first four sentences remain phrasal verbs. The Oxford English Grammar (ISBN 0-19-861250-8) distinguishes seven types of phrasal verbs...
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    combination involving verbs – items such as go on, slip away and break off – see Phrasal verb.) As in many other languages, the means English uses for expressing...
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  • with French. For instance, phrasal verbs (give up, give in etc.) appear to have replaced many of Old English's affixed verbs already by the time of the...
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  • (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional...
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  • in English Phrasal Verbs, GRIN Verlag, pp. 6–10, ISBN 978-3-640-83275-0 Phrasal Verbs and other multi-word verbs Multi-word verbs (phrasal verbs) v t...
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  • Certain verb–modifier combinations, particularly when they have independent meaning (such as take on and get up), are known as "phrasal verbs". For details...
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  • Adposition (section Verbs)
    American English has on the weekend, whereas British English uses at the weekend). In some contexts (as in the case of some phrasal verbs) the choice...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The verb go is an irregular verb in the English language (see English irregular verbs). It has a wide range of uses; its...
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  • (stronger prohibition) English has many phrasal or compound verb forms that are somewhat analogous to separable verbs. However, in English the particle is always...
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  • a limited number of verbs, or if it requires the specification of more than one principal part (as with the German strong verbs), views may differ as...
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  • Tmesis (section Verbs)
    English employs a large number of phrasal verbs, consisting of a core verb and a particle. A phrasal verb is written as two words that are analyzed semantically...
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  • rather than by changing the verb's root vowel (as in English I rise~I rose). Whereas the strong verbs are the oldest group of verbs in Germanic, originating...
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  • auxiliary verbs. Below are some sentences that contain representative auxiliary verbs from English, Spanish, German and French, with the auxiliary verb marked...
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  • advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used...
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  • earliest in the north and latest in the southwest. The spread of phrasal verbs in English is another grammatical development to which Norse may have contributed...
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    authorities talk of a genitive case, the inflected word being the last word in a phrasal genitive construction; others regard the genitive marker as a clitic. Terminological...
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  • principal verbs, it may also be used for a wider group of verbs with similar potential functions (like become, get, feel and seem in English); alternatively...
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    commonly referred to as "phrasal verbs". These complements often modify the meaning of the verb in an unpredictable way, and a verb-particle combination such...
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    verb is usually reserved for V+V compounds. However, several authors [especially Iranists] refer to N+V compounds as compound verbs. Compound verbs are...
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  • saying that stative verbs describe situations that are static, or unchanging throughout their entire duration, whereas dynamic verbs describe processes...
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    require some effort from the learner. Phrasal verbsPhrasal verbs (also known as multiple-word verbs) in English can cause difficulties for many learners...
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    ending, variously, as a phrasal affix, an edge affix, or a clitic, rather than as a case ending. The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally...
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