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phrasals

phrasals is the plural of phrasal.

Meaning of phrasal

Noun

phrasal (plural phrasals)

  1. A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
    • Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105
    1. A phrasal verb.

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Questions about phrasals

What is phrasals the plural of?
Phrasals is the plural of phrasal.

Words near phrasals in the dictionary

  1. phrasal prepositions
  2. phrasal typology
  3. phrasal verb
  4. phrasal verbs
  5. phrasally
  6. phrasals
  7. phrase
  8. phrase book
  9. phrase books
  10. phrase name
  11. phrase names

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