Search results for 'tag:Prepositional verbs tag:Relative pronouns' matching tags 'Prepositional verbs' and 'Relative pronouns'

Re: Prep. verb + prep. object, or V + adverbial PP ??

cacarr — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:30:43 GMT

I'm trying to think of a prepositional verb that can be split by an object.

1.Call on (visit)

2.Call up (summon)

1. *I called my friends on.

2. I called my friends up.

#2 is a phrasal verb.

Also, I don't beleive that a phrasal verb can divided by an adverb

1.I call frequently on my friends.

2.*I call angrily up my friends.

A phrasal verb particle can't precede a relative pronoun.

1. On which friends did I call?

2. *Up which friends did I call?

Re: Prepositional or Phrasal Verb?

Mister Micawber — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:35:35 GMT

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 the particle of a phrasal verb.

3) An adverb can often be inserted between verb and particle in prepositional verbs, but not in phrasal verbs.

4) The particle of a phrasal verb cannot precede a relative pronoun of 'wh'-interrogative.

5) The particle of a phrasal verb is normally stressed whereas the particle of a prepositional verb is normally unstressed.

(Courtesy of Greenbaum & Quirk)

Re: I have a question about phrasal verbs too

Mister Micawber — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:10:38 GMT

I guess if you don't know the verb at all, you're stuck, Lana. There are no prescriptive rules, only guidelines. Greenbaum & Quirk list five differences:

(1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can either precede or follow the d.o.

(2) When the object is a personal pronoun, it follows the particle of a prepositonal verb but precedes that of a phrasal verb.

(3) An adverb adjunct can often be inserted between verb and particle of a prepositional verb, but not in the case of a phrasal.

(4) The particle of a phrasal cannot precede a relative pronoun or wh-interrogative.

(5) The particle of a phrasal is normally stressed; that of the prepositional normally unstressed.

Try 'em out, let me know how you like 'em.