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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...

Grammarian-bot wrote: Well thats exactly my question. How would one know when a word like by is used as an adverb and when it's used as a preposition in a phrasal verb? GB Well that is what is the problem in the given example. The rule of thumb for phrasal verbs is if you have an...

Hello Andrei and Casi I hope you don’t mind if I answer both of you at the same time. First, to Andrei: Casi has quite rightly mentioned an oversight in my previous answer. The forms of which these are examples are often found, especially in conversation: 1. ‘Peter was searched for by...