Separable & Inseparable Phrasal Verbs

Hello,

Is there an easy way to figure out if a phrasal verb is separable or inseparable?

Hello Krish

How did you spend the New Years holidays? Do you have a custom of taking holidays at the start of a year in Southern India?

By the way, I feel what you are asking for is difficult to answer. I think you already know that most of the transitive phrasal verbs in the form of <verb + adverbial particle> are separable. But the problem is that the same particle functions sometimes as an adverbial and sometimes as a preposition.
         He ran up the hill [up = preposition; run = intransitive; "run it up" is not OK]
         He ran up the flag to the full height [up = adverb; run = transitive; "run it up" is OK]
         He ran up the bill to $3000 [up = adverb; run = transitive;  "run it up" is OK ]
In another words, we can know whether the phrasal is separable or not only after we know in what sense it is used.

paco

I"m trying to find that out, too! It's really difficult.

This Post:256204 may or may not be useful, as it is on a similar topic, but not the exact same one.
Check it out, noting later in the same thread:

"There are a number of particles (up, down, in, out, on, off, away, back) which should make us very suspicious that we are dealing with a separable phrasal verb, and a number of them (with, without, by, for, at, across, of, from, to, into) which almost certainly indicate a prepositional verb."

CJ