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

Hello, I'm a foreigner studying english and I have some question about the use of preposition.I saw the name of one book (if memory serve me right, it's cambridge press's book) and I don't understand its structure so I need some advice.The name is "In at the deep". It's very short, isn't it ?But...

At explained The particle at appears to be the goal or objective of opportunists who attempt to take advantage whenever possible. Some verbs show an endeavour to do something by the subject but we do not know if the attempt was successful or the goal was attained. The objects of some verbs...

CJ, thanks again for your response, as I need to run these things by someone else. I hope our dialogue is beneficial to you too. Maybe we can say that, if a verb + adverb can be followed by an object then it must be a phrasal verb. By this rule we are defining phrasals syntactically and not by...

I don’t know why it can’t therefore just as well be concluded that ‘out’, in such constructions, is simply an adverb. I don't know why either. Some authors do call these "particles" adverbs. However, the behavior of a "particle" is a sometimes a bit different from an adverb with regard to...

All prepositional verbs take prepositional objects. True. But what do we do with ambi-structural "looked after"? They looked (DO) What evidence is there that speakers don't parse "look after" as a unit and "the sheep" as its direct object? It seems all too neat 'n tidy to lump verbs of...