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.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)

I need a few of the regulars out there to help me out again, could you please check what I've answered so far and tell me if I'm right? If I'm wrong please simply point me in the right direction and I'll try again. Unfortunately questions B and C have stumped me, so I'd be grateful if anyone...

Welcome to English Forums! It would be better if someone familiar with the Longman book responded to your question. I am not familiar with that book. Nevertheless, I will try to answer your questions. 1. An object of a preposition always follows a prepositional verb, yes. A...

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 help me...

Dear teachers, Would you please help me to solve this problem? Example 1: I have been looking for you everywhere. "Parsing" = sentence analysis (correct use ?) Form + Function : I = Noun Phrase = subject have been looking = Verb Phrase = transitive verb for you = Prepositional Phrase you = object...

Phrasal Verbs are easily distinguished from prepositional verbs. I'm not all that convinced it's so cut 'n dried. Meaning plays a vital role. She looked over the fence. (adverb; she looked where?) ?The fence was looked over. She looked over the fence. (direct object) The fence was looked...

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...

My point was that "looked after" is a prepositional verb, not a phrasal verb as was suggested in the thread. I've been trying to understand the difference. It seems that many people are not aware that there is one. My error, I misunderstood. I know prepositional verbs as inseperable phrasal...

My point was that "looked after" is a prepositional verb, not a phrasal verb as was suggested in the thread. I've been trying to understand the difference. It seems that many people are not aware that there is one. I think this is correct: Prepositional verb Type 1 - np+lexical...

Try this, Karol: 1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the prepositional object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can generally precede or follow the direct object. 2) When the object is a personal pronoun, the pronoun follows the particle of a prepositional verb but precedes...