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phrasal prepositional verb

phrasal prepositional verb noun: a multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.

Noun

phrasal prepositional verb (plural phrasal prepositional verbs)

  1. A multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
    • In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156

Forms of phrasal prepositional verb

pluralphrasal prepositional verbs

Questions about phrasal prepositional verb

What does phrasal prepositional verb mean?
Phrasal prepositional verb means a multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
What part of speech is phrasal prepositional verb?
Phrasal prepositional verb is a noun.
What is the plural of phrasal prepositional verb?
The plural of phrasal prepositional verb is phrasal prepositional verbs.

Words near phrasal prepositional verb in the dictionary

  1. phrasal adverb
  2. phrasal adverbs
  3. phrasal noun
  4. phrasal nouns
  5. phrasal preposition
  6. phrasal prepositional verb
  7. phrasal prepositional verbs
  8. phrasal prepositions
  9. phrasal typology
  10. phrasal verb
  11. phrasal verbs

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