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I'm not sure. I don't see it as a strictly phrasal verb as the meaning is not idiomatic. He rests on the bed. He rests in bed. He rests at home. The choice of preposition doesn't seem to change the meaning of "rest". Also I'm not sure about "what" as an object....

.Hello V878-- and welcome to English Forums.On what does and will the fame of Turing rest? = The fame of Turing rests and will rest on what?S = TuringV = does and will...reston what is a prepositional verb complement (or rest on is a phrasal verb with what as direct object)

.There must be some way to alert non-native speakers that native teachers of English and trained ESLs generally know what they are talking about.Did you read this thread, Anon? Do we really have to waste our energies repeating ourselves over and over?Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Sometimes I...

Good morning Jim, Some may say that since the meaning of "frighten" doesn't change when we add the adverb "away" so "frighten away" is not a true phrasal verb and the sentence above should be analysed as (a), i.e., He = subject; frighten = verb; the dog = direct object; away = adverbial of...

1-- indicate2-- some particular but here unspecified3-- drugs4-- It is the appropriate preposition: to have an effect on5-- No. Effect is the direct object of the phrasal verb point out. You could recast as: The gov't has pointed out that certain drugs have a bad effect on people...

Aperisic wrote: However!!! If we understood lay by as a phrasal verb then and only then "by" is an adverb. "Lay by" means "set/lay aside". "Lay by" is very rare, so I could say that looking "lay by" in The farmer laid by his crops to mean "set aside" is more a trick than a real explanation....

Grammarian-bot wrote:A website says that "by" in the following sentence is an adverb.1. The farmer laid by his crops.But if we analyze, we can see that the word "by" answers the question "what" which makes it a preposition. Also the website says that "crops" directyly receives the action of the...

In #1, the verb is in the passive voice, the past perfect tense. In the active voice, it would be The gas explosion had blown out all the shop's windows. Blown out is a phrasal verb; had been blown out is a verb with auxiliaries.In #2, had is the (whole) verb and blown out is a past participle...

She glorified God by giving back to Him the very thing He desired. She: subjectglorified: verbGod: direct object by giving back to Him the very thing He desired: prepositional phrase, which modifies glorifiedgiving back: gerund (noun) from the phrasal verb to give back, which means to...

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...