s between a phrasal verb proper and a following preposition, as with look down on hold in contempt, check up on investigate, go along with accept, face up to confront, look back on recall, look forward to have good expectations of, look up to admire, meet up with encounter.phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition, any of which are part of the syntax of the sentence, and so is a complete semantic unit. Sentences, however, may contain direct and indirect objects in addition to the phrasal verb. Phrasal verbs are particularly frequent in the English Language. A phrasal verb often has a meaning which is different from the original verb. According to Tom McArthur: the term phrasal verb was first used by Logan Pearsall Smith, in «Words and Idioms» (1925), in which he states that the OED Editor Henry Bradley suggested the term to him. Alternative terms for phrasal verb are compound verb, verb-adverb combination, verb-particle construction (VPC), AmE" two-part word / verb and three-part word / verb (depending on the number of particles), and multi-word verb (MWV).
Phrasal verbs in informal speech
Phrasal verbs are usually used informally in everyday speech as opposed to the more formal Latinate verbs, such as «to get together» rather than «to congregate», «to put off» rather than «to postpone», or «to get out» rather than «to exit».
Prepositional verbs
Prepositional verbs are phrasal verbs that contain a preposition, which is always followed by its nominal object. They are different from inseparable transitive particle verbs, because the object still follows the preposition if it is a pronoun:
· On Fridays, we look after our grandchildren.
· We look after them. (Not * look them after) verb can have its own object, which usually precedes the preposition:
· She helped the boy to an extra portion of potatoes.
· With pronouns: She helped him to some.verbs with two prepositions are possible:
· We talked to the minister about the crisis.
Phrasal-prepositional verbs
A phrasal verb can contain an adverb and a preposition at the same time. Again, the verb itself can have a direct object:
· No direct object: The driver got off to a flying start.
· Direct object: Onlookers put the accident down to the driver s loss of concentration.
2.3 Guessing and explaining meanings of phrasal verbs «come» and «go»
Learning a new language is hard, there s no doubt about that. Second language students who study where that second language is spoken can pick up about 2,500 words per year if they are motivated to do so. There are a couple different strategies that can be used when it comes to unknown phrasal verbs.dictionaries come in handy from time to time, many phrasal verbs can be guessed from context. Looking up words in the dictionary, called «stopper words,» break the reader s concentration. There are a couple of different things that can be done to help guess the meaning of these stopper words. First, as I previously mentioned, is context. By using surroundi...
