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phrasal prepositional verbs

phrasal prepositional verbs is the plural of phrasal prepositional verb.

Meaning of phrasal prepositional verb

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

Questions about phrasal prepositional verbs

What is phrasal prepositional verbs the plural of?
Phrasal prepositional verbs is the plural of phrasal prepositional verb.

Words near phrasal prepositional verbs in the dictionary

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

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