By Articles, Adverbs

Hello Ant«That physical phenomena» — «the physical phenomena» ] fine.«In the sound film projection» — «in the projection (demonstration) of sound films (movies)» ] I'm not altogether sure of the meaning here. What's the literal translation? (It may be that a verb phrase would be better here,...

Neither she nor her sister (were) was in the party.Neither John nor Diane (are) is going to the store.Neither De Niro nor his agent (were) was available for comment. all of these sentences above are grammatically false. No, you failed to catch the gist of the article. When there is the...

They set a riot off seems acceptable, even though our preference seems to be for They set off a riot. (Note the article.) Here it is the selectional criteria that may be interfering. Substitute bomb for riot, and both They set off a bomb and They set a bomb off are fine, neither seeming to be...

They set a riot off seems acceptable, even though our preference seems to be for They set off a riot. (Note the article.) Here it is the selectional criteria that may be interfering. Substitute bomb for riot, and both They set off a bomb and They set a bomb off are fine, neither seeming to be...

'set of" is an inseparable pv Thank you for your response. I found these in Oxford Dict. set sth<=>off; take sth <=>on; put sth <=> down, give sth <=> away The double-direction arrows indicate the places of sth and the particle are interchangeable, Am I wrong? .

Separable phrasal verbs must be separated when there is a pronoun. Pick me up and not pick up me. I Picked up a leaflet from the floor. "Is it always the case that the non-pronoun object could be either before or after the particle in a phrasal verb" Only if, but not if and only if, the pv...

I don't think it is always the case, no. I'll think about it. Maybe I can think of an example where the noun has to be on one side of the particle or the other all the time. CJ

The overall impressions of reading it are: The prepositions are more intimate with the objects than the adverbs. Those methods are to judge this intimateness. And it must be an adverb, when one can put the object in front of the unidentified particle. Could I ask a basic question? Is it...

What you call a "phrasal verb with a preposition" doesn't seem correct. A verb-plus-preposition structure like expand on is usually called a prepositional verb. Only a verb-plus-adverb structure like catch on is usually called a phrasal verb. These are the terms I'll use below. In...

"The practice of taking cold showers is unlikely to catch on in Britain." What is unlikely in Britain to catch? On taking cold showers. No. What is unlikely in Britain to catch on? The practice of ... . Yes. If you need the adverbial particle for the sentence to make sense, you hae a...