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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...

Hello ElCid I'm an English learner from Japan. I know I myself am not good at English. But if you don't mind, I'd like to try to answer your question. Maybe I'll make many mistakes in the answer, but I'm sure in this case our teachers come to correct them. So please allow me to do my try. OK?...

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...