By Verbs, Prepositional verbs

.1.-- I would guess that there are several ways to approach this; here's mine: I - Subject got - verb used - predicate adjectiveto - preposition your - possessive adjective being - gerund (object of preposition) here - noun complement 2. Is 'used to' a prepositional verb?-- No, it...

I got used to your being here. 1. How would this sentence be parsed? 2. Is 'used to' a prepositional verb? 3. How does 'here', which is an adverb, modify 'being', which is a gerund (noun)? 4. What if 'your' was replaced with 'you', would the obect...

The tests are listed in this PDF on PHRASAL AND PREPOSiTIONAL VERBS. I'm afraid the tests don't get any simpler.

Love should be died for is a highly irregular turn of phrase that comes from One should die for love. It's treating die for as a prepositional verb. It's not the passive form of die, but of die for, which is a highly suspect "verb". Note that love is not died in this construction. Nobody is...

what is the role (or roles) of the word "about"? Clearly, it's part of the prepositional verb "told about". But is it also (and simultaneously) considered to be a separate entity - a preposition?Given the sentence in isolation (i.e. outside this discussion), I'm sure we would call 'about the...

Thanks; that explanation was very informative.There is one point I'm still unclear about. In the sentence "I told her about the facts," what is the role (or roles) of the word "about"? Clearly, it's part of the prepositional verb "told about". But is it also (and simultaneously) considered to...

Tell about is one of the 'prepositional verbs', where the prepositional phrase is considered an alternative 'paraphrase' of the direct object .I told her (IO) the facts (DO)I told the facts (DO) to her (prepositional complement)I told her (IO) about the facts (prepostional complement)I understand...

I checked the first couple of pages of Google hits for "mention about" and "discuss about" and most of them are totally wrong. Apparently it is a common mistake. However, note that you will get hits on these combinations which are correct because mention (or discuss) goes in one phrase or...

This Post:256204 may or may not be useful, as it is on a similar topic, but not the exact same one. Check it out, noting later in the same thread: "There are a number of particles (up, down, in, out, on, off, away, back) which should make us very suspicious that we are dealing with a...

PHRASAL VERB = VERB + PREPOSITIONAL VERB