Hmm, I remembered a lesson when I was writing it and we categorized phrasal verbs as "verbs" in a sentence initially and then made the discriminations later for example phrasal verb. I was thinking of it when I wrote but I was not clear.

No, the particle has an independent existence, Doll. 'Shut' is verb, 'shut up' is phrasal verb (i.e. verb + adverb).

Hi, One rule about phrasal verbs which take objects is this: when you have a separable phrasal verb (like tell off ) and the object is a pronoun, you must put it between the verb and the particle. For this reason, you can't write "

isn't prisoners the direct object because it's receiving the gnawing? No. If the object (or what seems like it to you) doesn't occur directly after the verb with no intervening preposition, it's not a direct object, and the verb is

how many of them are grammatic ally correct? Four. CJ

1.Check out this book! 2.Check this book out! 3.Check out this! 4.Check this out! Hi, how many of them are grammatic correct? Thank you

"Sometimes I am more inclined to think over the question you raise rather than analyse the photograph itself. And this one reached the very inside of me. It's Amazing. OK That was a beautiful question. I would like to leave behind the

The driver trook the people who had been waiting for a ride. - Do you find anything wrong in it? But the explanation in the book says, it is wrong. FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE. But even if FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE, it is not sentence fragment. The

Use the search box to find the many threads on this subject. You can start here. Re: Differ between a preposition and an adverb in a phrasal verb. . CJ

I want to know what's the difference betweeen prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs, thank you.