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coming of age is different. This thread was mostly concerned with the prepositional verb come of , where of goes with come . In come of age , the verb is just come . The of doesn't go with come . The of goes with age . of age means old enough , and to come of age means to become old enough . ...

Hi Paco! I don't think "put up" has the same meaning as "put up with" = TOLERATE, in this sentence: " I have put my complaint up again, for to my foes my bill (= broad-bladed sword) I dare not show." I interpreat "put up" here as "I have refrained from complaining again, for to my foes...

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...