The term phrasal verb is commonly applied to two or three distinct but related constructions in English: a verb and a particle and/or a preposition co-occur forming a single semantic unit. This semantic unit cannot be understood based upon the meanings of the individual parts in isolation, but rather it can be taken as a whole. In other words, the...
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noun an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit; ``turn out` is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?``
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Grammatical construction in which a verb is followed by a preposition or an adverb, and the combined meaning is different from the sum of the parts. An example is when we talk about whether a plan will `come off`, however this pattern does not necessarily imply a phrasal verb, as in `looked up`
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a verb formed from two or (sometimes three) parts: a verb and an adverb or preposition
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