[PLUG-TALK] Linguistics and the steamroller of English adoption

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Wed Apr 28 19:18:00 UTC 2021


On 2021-04-28 10:47, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> One of the biggest problems for foreigners is phrasal verbs, where we
> stick a preposition or adverb (called a verb particle) after the verb's
> complement, instead of right after the verb where it belongs. The
> particle changes the meaning of the verb, and some verbs can take more
> than one particle. Phrasal verbs are massively complex, so much so that
> they have never been thoroughly analyzed by linguists.

Could you provide an example, please?

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