User:Dan Polansky/Phrasal verbs

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Subject: English phrasal verbs.

Classification[edit]

Classification 1:

  • Phrasal verb
    • Particle phrasal verb[WP]
      • Cases: look up, switch off, give off, get up, sit down, slow down, hand over, hold over
      • The word at the right is classified as "particle" or "adverb", not "preposition".
    • Prepositional phrasal verb[WP]
      • Cases: look after, look for
      • The word at the right is an object-taking preposition.
    • Three-word phrasal verb[Carl W. Hart]
      • Cases: look forward to, get along with
      • Wiktionary cases: come out with, come up with, crack down on, get around to, get out of, and many more.
      • Hm; I don't like this. I would drop the last preposition from the headword of the phrasal verb, to obtain "look forward" and "get along". That verbs take prepositions is a phenomenon different from phrasal verbs. "Can I help you with the homework?" does not mean "help with" is a phrasal verb.

Other classification:

  • Phrasal verbs[1]
    • Transitive
      • Separable
        • Cases: look up ("look it up"), pin down
      • Inseparable
        • Cases: come accross[2]
        • Question: Can particle phrasal verbs end up in this class?
    • Intransitive
      • Inseparable (always)

Three-word phrasal verb[edit]

These are also in #Classification above. Examples:

double up as is in RFD, later at Talk:double up as.

Link to German[edit]

  • "Phrasal verbs that contain adverbs are sometimes called "particle verbs", and are related to separable verbs in other Germanic languages."[WP]

Latin correspondence[edit]

Latin correspondence
English Latin-root English Prefix
get together congregate con (together)
put off postpone post
get out exit ex (out)
give up surrender sur

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Books[edit]

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