By Difference between, Prepositional verbs

CalifJim wrote:care about is not a phrasal verb. It's a prepositional verb.care about it, never care it about.CJ What is the difference between phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs? Thanks

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...

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...

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 help me...

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...

Can anyone help, please? Last Wednesday, we were talking about the passive voice in class, and we found something in a book called "English Syntax: A Grammar for English Language Professionals", by R. A. Jacobs, which surprised us. In the chapter about passive voice, under the heading...