Search results for 'tag:Expressions tag:Phrasal verbs' matching tags 'Expressions' and 'Phrasal verbs'

Re: grammar checkS!

Fandorin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:28:18 GMT

Hi,Ellisa.

E3, Extending word use

Words have different meanings according to different contexts as well as different usages. Words ~~also~~ can also be used as metaphorical meanings to express our feelings about things which creates images gradually. Even some metaphors become so popular that they are used as fixed phrases which is are accepted as idioms. On the other hand, the words of metaphorical and idiomatic are becoming cliches which are not welcomed (well accepted) to people to be used.

E4. Word combinations

Word combinations or the Collocations are words which ~~co-occur~~ occur with each other. For English speaker, it is seems as normal and acceptable since ~~they~~ those ~~are used to using that through~~ to be used in (are usually found in) custom and practice. ~~The~~ word combination ~~made~~ makes 'lexical phrases' which indicate ~~fixed~~ bound expressions ~~phrases~~ for some words. Aside from phrasal verbs, collocations and compound words stand in language ~~also go together with~~ beside functional phrases, idiomatic or fixed expressions and verbal expressions. As we can see above, sometimes words are ~~sometimes~~ insufficient to account for the different kinds of meanings.For example, A phrasal verb, for example(this is also possible), has a totally different meaning. In other words, they've created a meaning units by combining words.

grammar checkS!

Ellisa — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:04:13 GMT

Hello teachers!
I'm summarising my texts book and it's not easy to make grammatically right sentences.
Please check the wrong grammar for me.
Thanks in advance!!!

E3, Extending word use

Words have different meanings according to different contexts as well as different usages. Words also can be used as metaphorical meanings to express our feelings about things which creates images gradually. Even some metaphors become so popular that they are used as fixed phrases which is accepted as idioms. On the other hand, the words of metaphorical and idiomatic are become cliches which are not welcomed to people to be used.

E4. Word combinations

Word combinations or Collocations are words which co-occur with each other. For English speaker, it is seen as normal and acceptable since they are used to using that through custom and practice. The word combination made 'lexical phrases' which indicate fixed phrases for some words. Aside from phrasal verbs, collocations and compound words, language also go together with functional phrases, idiomatic or fixed expressions and verbal expressions. As we can see above, words are sometimes insufficient to account for the different kinds of meanings. A phrasal verb, for example, has a totally different meaning. In other words, they've created a meaning units by combining words.

Re: what verb or phrasal verb?

Raen — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:26:02 GMT

Thanks for the prompt response, GG. I appreciate it.

Are there also other more informal expressions? Thanks.

Raen

what verb or phrasal verb?

Raen — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:18:05 GMT

Twice this week I was asked if I had used any medication for my cold, I wanted to say more than just a "No" because I chose not to take any and that I rather have my natural immune system fight the virus.

So in order to convey that I forge forward with the cold and let it run its course, in a sentence structure like this:

No, I don't take any medicine, I usually just __ for/with my cold.

what verb, phrasal verb, phrase, expression would you suggest me?

I'm hope I'm making sense.

Thanks a lot

Raen

Re: "preparatory it" problem

Stenka25 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:48:38 GMT

Thanks, Avangi.

Waiting for your answer, I checked out Cambridge Dictionary.

There's good example sentences to help solve the 'it' problem.

That is,

A good architect takes into account the building's surroundings.
I hope my teacher will take into account the fact that I was ill just before the exams when she marks my paper.
I think you have to take into account that he's a good deal younger than the rest of us.

In #1 sentence I realized that 'take into accout' can be used like 'phrasal verb.'

So we cannot apply the same rigid rule -make it possible- to this expression.

What do you think of my thought?

Re: expect to be waited on hand and foot

Maple — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:13:22 GMT

CalifJim
Hi, Maple.

You're parsing this wrong. It's waited on as a unit -- past participle of an inseparable phrasal verb to wait on meaning served.

I love others to give me all the things I need. I love others to run and fetch things for me. I love others to serve me. = I love to be waited on.

Note the relationship to waiter -- a server in a restaurant. The waiter waits on the customers.

The expression as a whole is an idiom. to wait on (someone) hand and foot. Adding hand and foot adds the idea of extreme attention to every little need. The person serving does everything possible to please the other, using hands to present needed things, using feet to run and fetch things for the other.

When you say it, group waited and on together and pause slightly. Then say hand and foot. Don't group it as on hand and foot.

Hi, CJ, I think I get it now.

It reminds me that long ago, I read one of your discussions about whether we can say we know the word out and blue, if we haven't got the least idea of what "out of blue" means. Same kind of problem.

It is very unusual to speak of an inanimate like a tree as 'being waited on', however!

As to this point, the whole article is kinda a metaphor; they're comparing plant husbandry with child education.

Thanks and Regards!

Maple

Re: expect to be waited on hand and foot

CalifJim — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:35:31 GMT

Hi, Maple.

You're parsing this wrong. It's waited on as a unit -- past participle of an inseparable phrasal verb to wait on meaning served.

I love others to give me all the things I need. I love others to run and fetch things for me. I love others to serve me. = I love to be waited on.

Note the relationship to waiter -- a server in a restaurant. The waiter waits on the customers.

The expression as a whole is an idiom. to wait on (someone) hand and foot. Adding hand and foot adds the idea of extreme attention to every little need. The person serving does everything possible to please the other, using hands to present needed things, using feet to run and fetch things for the other.

When you say it, group waited and on together and pause slightly. Then say hand and foot. Don't group it as on hand and foot.

It is very unusual to speak of an inanimate like a tree as 'being waited on', however!

Re: Splashing out money

Avangi — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:17:18 GMT

Zerox wrote:
Is the aforementioned phrasal verb suitable to depict the situation when money is used on fireworks and one, literally, fires the money to the sky?

As nearly as I can tell, that particular use would not necessarily be suitable unless we knew more of the circumstances. The two essentials seem to be "spending freely" - as opposed to "wisely" - and "spending ostentatiously." While there's nothing more ostentatious than fireworks, in my opinion we'd have to know under what circumstances the money for the project was spent. If it were a city council deciding to support a patriotic celebration, who would argue that the money was ill-spent or ostentatious - unless, let's say, the council decided to tripple the expenditure of previous years in order to out-do a neighboring city.

Others may disagree.

The expression is said to be an Anglicism.

- A.

2008 slang words thread

David Little — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:33:32 GMT

Dear friends
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May God gives you all you need and want in this coming year.May your English endeavors succeed and touch the elite level.
Shall we have a list of slang words or idiomatic expressions such as rip-off,bunk,hit on her,whats up,down with/for etc on this thread from time to time.Native speakers please help us by giving any contributions in the way of mostly used or popular slang words,idioms,phrasal verbs on this thread.
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Re: meet [up]

Tanit — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:48:38 GMT

Hi,

I'd choose "meet up with".

'Meeting up'/'meet up':
"Of course, we talk about meeting up, and that's a very common expression: in fact it's what we call a phrasal verb, but you can meet up, or you can meet up with somebody - that's always for social reasons and it involves getting together, usually then to do something else, and it may involve not two people, but a large group of people. So, at the end of an evening of doing something socially, somebody might say âwhen are we going to meet up againâ?"