phrasal verb, prepositional v. < Grammatik < Englisch < Sprachen < Vorhilfe
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(Frage) beantwortet  | | Datum: | 20:46 Mo 07.11.2011 | | Autor: | APinUSA |
| Aufgabe | | Find two phrasal and two prepositional or phrasa-prepositional verbs. explain why they belong to these special classes of verbs. |
Are my examples right?
phrasal verb:
-> putting up
-> locked in
phrasal prepositional verb
-> fall down
-> thank (God) for
-> drowning in
But what is the right explaination?
Thanks for the help
Maria
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Dear Maria,
you are always welcome to ask a question in this forum/board. Let me just mention that there may be more specialised ones like the ones at ![[]](/images/popup.gif) Leo. Especially when studying languages, I would strongly recommend you to join such a place with more specialised users and more traffic. There's a number of such sites.
As you can see, I would rather consider myself to be a BE speaker whereas your nickname seems to imply an AE bias.
Having said that, let's turn to your request:
> Find two phrasal and two prepositional or
> phrasal-prepositional verbs. explain why they belong to
> these special classes of verbs.
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> Are my examples right?
>
> phrasal verb:
> -> putting up
> -> locked in
There's supposed to be an infinitive, though you examples are understandable. The latter one is perfectly alright but the former seems more than just slightly dubious. To "put up" is usually used as a prepositional verb, thus requiring an object. Its pure uses are scarce.
> phrasal prepositional verb
> -> fall down
> -> thank (God) for
> -> drowning in
These are definitely wrong. All three of them are prepositional verbs. A phrasal prepositional verb does require a core verb plus two more words (one usually being an adverb and the other a preposition) and will even need to be followed by at least a third, i.e. an object.
> But what is the right explaination?
Explanation.
The best one I could find on the internet is this. It really doesn't leave much to be said. At the same time, it is stuffed with examples galore... 
> Thanks for the help
Possible. Thanks for help comes over (phrasal!) more naturally to me. Thanks for helping (me) out would be either phrasal or prepositional depending on the existence of an object. Thanks for helping me out with this would be a double prepositional construction, whereas "thanks for the information you are backing me up with" would be considered phrasal prepositional although it doesn't necessarily have to be classified as such because of the existence of two objects.
Please do read the document that I have linked up above (btw, just a phrasal construction). It's as instructive as you could possibly desire.
All the best,
reverend
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(Mitteilung) Reaktion unnötig  | | Datum: | 16:08 Di 08.11.2011 | | Autor: | APinUSA |
Wow thank you that was/is very helpful! I will read the link right now :)
Maria
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(Frage) überfällig  | | Datum: | 16:19 Di 08.11.2011 | | Autor: | APinUSA |
Hello,
here my second try:
-> a lot of
and -> came back
and -> could be
are phrasal verbs? (no object needed)
And -> told me
-> help me
are prepositional verbs?
I hope with the help of the link I got it right?
Maria
P.S. I will look into www.leo.org too :)
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(Mitteilung) Reaktion unnötig | | Datum: | 16:22 Mi 16.11.2011 | | Autor: | matux |
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