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1. phrasal verbLinguistics
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2. Phrasal verbA phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a single-word or multi-word prepositional phrase that form a complete (i.e. combined) semantic unit as a phrase. Alternative terms are ‘compound verb’, ‘verb-adverb combination’, ‘verb-particle construction’(VPC), AmE ‘two-part word/verb’ and ‘three-part word/verb’ (depending on the number of particles), and multi-word verb (MWV). According to Tom McArthur: "...
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