By Prepositional verbs

Milky wrote:Maybe you meant "phrasal-prepositional verb".I meant "prepositional-phrasal verb". paco

Paco2004 wrote: Longman English Grammar (L.G.Alexander, 1988) classifies forms of <Verb+prep> into "non-phrasals" and "phrasals".paco Maybe you meant "phrasal-prepositional verb".

Paco2004 wrote: Hello MrPI'm sorry for the ambiguous writing. I meant "a prepositional phrasal verb" by "a phrasal", not "an adverbial phrasal verb". paco Is there suchy a thing as a "prepositional phrasal verb"? I thought there were phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs only.

Hello MrPI'm sorry for the ambiguous writing. I meant "a prepositional phrasal verb" by "a phrasal", not "an adverbial phrasal verb". What I am wondering is whether "shine on" in "shine on X" is always an transitive prepositional verbs like "look after". I rather think some people use it as a...

Well, I'd call it a "prepositional verb", rather than a "phrasal verb", as the particle can't follow the object. 1. The sun shone. 2. The sun shone on my face. In #1, "shone" denotes the action of the sun. But in #2, "shone on" denotes a different phenomenon: illumination by the sun. But...

Hello Hela Sorry, I've only just seen your thread: 1. I would take "shine on" as a prepositional verb, and "us" as the prepositional object. But other parsers will disagree... 2. I wonder whether we could take "a perfect game" as a cognate object here. She didn't literally "pitch" the game;...

MichalS wrote:Hi, I'm a new member on the forum. My name's Michal and I'm from Poland. I've been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately. Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English, I've come across a couple of problems which are hard for me to overcome. I hope that you will...

HAVE YOU GOT ANY DİCTİONARY ABOUT PREPOSİTİONAL VERBS

I've found this, from Martin Hewings, Advanced Grammar in Use, he says: Some verbs are commonly used with a particular particle (preposition or adverb). We can call these two-word verb. Some verbs are commonly used with an adverb + preposition. These are three-word verbs. These are also...

"Yes you are right. The Chaucer's use of "put up" was "put up (=pocket) one's complaint or resentment", that is, the object of the verb was not what one should tolerate. Then they began use the phrase with the thing to tolerate as the object (Harvey). By the way thank you for informing the source...