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Try this, Karol: 1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the prepositional object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can generally precede or follow the direct object. 2) When the object is a personal pronoun, the pronoun follows the particle of a prepositional verb but...

I guess if you don't know the verb at all, you're stuck, Lana. There are no prescriptive rules, only guidelines. Greenbaum & Quirk list five differences: (1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can either precede or follow the d.o. ...

I was going to open a new thread about phrasal verbs but then I saw this one and I thought that I could post my question here. I hope you'll be able to answer my question as well, here it is: How can you tell the difference between phrasal and prepositional verbs? I know that phrasal verbs can...

Hello, Industrious It is not correct to use "meet" after "look forward to". "Meet" is not an adverb. And "look forward to" is a transitive phrasal-prepositional verb; it is followed by an object. Pastel summed it up very well; after "look forward to" you use either: a. a noun b. the -ing...

Maj, "turn down" is a phrasal verb. some of its characteristics are different from those of "prepositional verbs". In phrasal verbs, the object -when it is a pronoun- will usually appear between the verb and the adverbial particle. I have to get ready for work now; I'll give you a detailed...

There have been a number of recent questions concerning when to use hypens. The following is an excerpt from The Economist magazine's style guide. © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004 Use hyphens for: 1. FRACTIONS (whether nouns or adjectives): two-thirds, four-fifths, one-sixth,...

I read in these forums, not lng ago, that there is no rule for every single case of the use of prepositions, and I agree with that. Sometimes, you'll just have to memorise what prepositions go with what words. 1. I don't know why 'on' is used in that sentence. You say, for example, "on Easter...