By Prepositional verbs

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 used with prepositional verbs only when they have...

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 prepositional verbs only when they have idiomatic or...

'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 rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb...

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 complement soldier. (I think you meant If I...

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". What do we call it then? A phrasal verb is a...

Sorry Jim, the term "unreal phrasal verb" doesn't exist I've just made it up. What I wanted to do is to make the difference between verbs with an idiomatic meaning (= phrasal verbs) and verbs with a straightforward meaning (name ??) I know though that in grammar we call "phrasal verbs" verbs...

I think maybe one of the other forum members would be better at this terminology. For example, I am not familiar with "unreal phrasal verbs". I would not call the b) sentences prepositional verbs. I would call "to talk someone into something" a causative -- conceptually. The grammatical...

Good morning Jim, So should I call the verbs in sentences (b) "ordinary / plain verbs" or "prepositional verbs" (with a literal sense) as opposed to "phrasal verbs" (= with an idiomatic sense) ? If the prepositional verbs in your list are separable is it not because they have a literal meaning...

Your b) examples are just plain sentences with ordinary verbs. If a verb is not a phrasal verb and not a prepositional verb, then it's "a verb", just like the thousands of them we see in sentences every day! ... we can ... not between a verb and a preposition ... This is false. There...