| For this, the dictionary has 80,000 words and phrases with over 10,000 phrasal verbs and idioms highlighted. |
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| English has a daunting inventory of phrasal verbs, such as break in, break out, break away, break into, break through, break up and break down. |
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| Speaking of gerunds, has anyone noticed that catenatives tend to be followed by gerunds if the catenative is a phrasal verb? |
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| The lesson had been about phrasal verbs, and I wondered where this had come from. |
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| Hansa's teachers make learning and using phrasal verbs fun and relevant to a student's daily life. |
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| The combination of verbs with intransitive prepositions is one of the many pseudopods of morphological quasi-regularity that extend into the phrasal domain in English. |
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| Although labelled vi, this phrasal verb can surely only be transitive in usage, indicating a lexicographical error. |
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| You can choose from a lot of practice tests, grammar exercises, texts to read and listening challenges, verb forms and phrasal verbs practice. |
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| After twenty years of near-daily contact with British English, your American columnist is still learning new British phrasal verbs. |
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| Terms are generally nouns, but may be adjectives, verbs, adverbs, or derived phrasal compounds. |
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| In the will to persuade, the meaning itself is secondary when we use phrasal description. |
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| The usual sorts of discourse relationships exist among the phrases, but very little of this structure is encoded by phrasal embedding within sentences. |
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| Idioms dictionary contains contains expressions and phrasal verbs. |
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| In English, most phrasal prepositions consist of an adverbial followed by a one-word preposition. |
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| Many varieties also use a near future constructed with the phrasal verb be going to. |
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| Examples of phrasal verbs are to get up, to ask out, to back up, to give up, to get together, to hang out, to put up with, etc. |
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| Some such compound nouns have a corresponding phrasal verb but some do not, partly because of historical developments. |
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| A prepositional phrase should not be confused with a sequence formed by the particle and the direct object of a phrasal verb. |
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| In English, the ambiguity and multiple meanings of the ubiquitous phrasal verb – the bane of foreign learners of the language – make it an ideal tool for making jokes and suggestive innuendo. |
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| This chapter focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early acquisition. |
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| Even though idioms may seem informal and include elements of slang and phrasal verbs, they are essential to understanding and mastering the everyday usage of the language. |
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| The aim of this seminar is to help English speakers understand what non-native English speakers may find difficult to understand: false cognates, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, high-risk language. |
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| Productive and receptive skills are stretched with more phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, the different verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives, expressing future possibility, and giving opinions. |
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| At the phrasal level, Osundare depends mostly on the aesthetic, as well as the thematic use of alliteration. |
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| In English text, a predicate can be in the form of a simple verb, a phrasal verb or a verbal collocation. |
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| This section considers intervocalic s-voicing, raddoppiamento sintattico, vowel deletion, phrase-final lengthening, and phrasal stress placement. |
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| Whether V precedes O or O precedes V however, has been shown to be a very telling difference with wide consequences on phrasal word orders. |
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| There are at least three main types of phrasal verb constructions depending on whether the verb combines with a preposition, a particle, or both. |
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| One should consider in this regard that the actual term phrasal verb suggests that such constructions should form phrases. |
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| Hence the very term phrasal verb is misleading and a source of confusion, which has motivated some to reject the term outright. |
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| When a particle phrasal verb is transitive, it can look just like a prepositional phrasal verb. |
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| This similarity is another source of confusion, since it obscures the difference between prepositional and particle phrasal verbs. |
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| This trait of phrasal verbs is also what makes them interesting for linguists, since they appear to defy the principle of compositionality. |
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| Particle phrasal verbs that are transitive allow some variability in word order, depending on the relative weight of the constituents involved. |
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| As a class, particle phrasal verbs belong to the same category as the separable verbs of other Germanic languages. |
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| Formulaic sequences are organized sequentially in real-time production, and they appear in the forms of collocations, clauses, and long phrasal stretches and even holophrases. |
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| It is capable of identifying not only single words, but multiple-word expressions, phrasal verbs, adjectivals, adverbials and prepositional phrases. |
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| The Essential Dictionary contains over 45,000 headwords, phrases, and phrasal verbs, with 36,000 examples showing how words are used in a wide variety of situations. |
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| In Japanese, words, phrase and clauses that modify nouns or phrasal nouns, as well as relative clauses, are prepositional, instead of post-positional. |
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| The words of each phrasal verb construction are highlighted in orange. |
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| Phrasal verbs that include a preposition are known as prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs that include a particle are also known as particle verbs. |
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| Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb and a primary, invariable adverb, the latter including the heads of reduced prepositional phrases but excluding adpreps. |
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