Questions tagged [phrasal-verbs]
A 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.
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Is "parse out" actually a phrasal verb, and in what context do you use "parse"
I came across this text example about phrasal verbs:
There's no better investment than the most comfortable sneakers Maybe your last beloved pair is kinda falling apart and desperately
needs to be ...
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What does "over the grind" means?
I searched on Google and YouTube, but I didn't find any results about "over the grind" at all. And I'm not sure what it means. However, I found "grind (down)" which is perhaps a ...
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". . . , but thinks by Easter he'll have grown into it"? [closed]
(From A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Part II Cambridge Choir, chapter 21)
(It's Christmas. William, the chorister, at home)
William's present is a bike, waiting for him in the communal ...
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Meanings of “catch one up” in British English
I know that it’s common in British English to say things like
You go on ahead. I’ll catch you up.
That usage is never encountered in American English. We would say, “I’ll catch up with you.”
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Can 'to go ahead' imply 'to pave the way'?
One meaning of English phrasal verb 'to go ahead' is 'to travel in front of other people in your group and arrive before them'. Starting from that meaning, it can potentially also be used in a ...
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Look forward very much to
One example of Cambridge grammar confuses me.
I look forward very much to hearing from you soon.
Is the sentence correct? Why does it put "very much" together with verb phrase "look ...
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What does "to line someone out" mean?
I occasionally hear this phrasal verb but never really understood what it means exactly. I fail to find a relevant definition anywhere. Oh yeah I'm familiar with the common usages of "line out&...
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Pull down to something
In a country song by Blake Shelton "Home sweet home", l came across this construction:
Pull down to a cane bridge.
I looked up most of the dictionaries, but none of them used the phrasal ...
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Let's assume X+into is a phrasal verb meaning A. X is also used with into again but with a different meaning (B) Can we count it as a phrasal verb?
Let's assume that we have 2 words: X and into. In dictionary the phrase X+into is accepted as a phrasal verb when it means A. We can also use X with the word into again, but then it literally means ...
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Is "Put together" a phrasal verb?
She put all the flowers together in one big bunch.
Is "put together" a phrasal verb in this sentence? Or is "together" an adverb?
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Phrase that is more business-appropriate than "got screwed"? [closed]
What is a more business-appropriate phrase that has the same meaning as "got screwed" (the non-sexual meaning).
In all the examples below, the people "getting screwed" were ...
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Which preposition is correct to use in "to conjugate __ 3rd Person Singular"?
Is it at/on/in with the following phrase:
to conjugate .... 3rd Person Singular
So far I consistently use "at". Am I right?
Edit:
"have" is conjugated ... the 3rd Person Singular,...
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I know it was a liberty—I made it out you were no business man, only a stone-broke painter; that half the time you didn't know anything anyway
(From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, Chapter XVIII, published 1892)
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“Jim,” I said, “you must speak right out. I've got all that I can carry.”
“Well,” he said—“I ...
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Is this awkward reuse of a verb between subjects correct?
From a Library of Congress article about Freud:
...patients tended to perform for the camera and doctors to record the most photogenic.
This sentence seems to reuse the verb tended between the ...
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Meaning of "bring them away" in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (Act2, scene1)?
In act II, scene 1, of Measure for Measure, Elbow says:
Elbow. Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a Common-weale, that doe nothing but vse their abuses in common houses, I know no law :...
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