You should read this Post:256204 . Here is just a part of it: 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

Hi Cool Breeze I thought that might be what you were getting at. I think it is a mistake to equate complexity solely with the degree of inflectional morphology of a language. I have never studied Finnish, but I would be willing to bet

Hi Peta I don't know that there is any "official" list of which prepositional verbs can/should be made passive. As is always the case with passives, however, you should first ask yourself if turning an object into the subject of a sentence (which

I am sorry for sending the thread twice, it was by mistake. The examples ˝The stadium was arrived at.˝ indicates the wrong use of the passive, because you can only say that you arrived at stadium, but you cannot say that stadium was arrived at.

Mateja wrote: thank you for your answers...so I used these sentences completely wrong then.I would like to ask you now to form some sentences for me,please. I will explain what I mean exactly. We said at our lectures that passive can be

thank you for your answers...so I used these sentences completely wrong then.I would like to ask you now to form some sentences for me,please. I will explain what I mean exactly. We said at our lectures that passive can be used with

'Deserted save' doesn't mean anything as you haven't highlighted the correct parts here: deserted: (adjective) nobody lives or is there save for : (prepositional verb) except for

Thank you very much, Jim and Yankee. CalifJim wrote: If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers. Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement

If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers. Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb with

I've just realized that just as a phrasal verb can be a combination of a verb + preposition OR adverb, a ...... verb (which is not a phrasal verb) can also be followed by a preposition OR adverb. So I shouldn't call it a "prepositional verb".