Learning
phrasal verbs along with vocabulary learning is considered one of the important aspects of foreign language acquisition because they make learners' speech more natural since they are characteristics of colloquial or informal language and tend to occur more in conversational speech than in academic discourse.
2-6) The two
phrasal verbs at work here, "fling round" and "grow close," emphasize conditions of expansion and enclosure that are mimicked in the way the lines seem to push past their endings only to be drawn back by the prepositions that complete the composite verbs.
However, as Russian does not have
phrasal verb, it is probably perceived as an oddity that deviates from "correct" Russian to a greater extent than just government modelled on Estonian pattern (see [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 2004 on correlation between Estonian
phrasal verbs and Russian aspect in two monolingual varieties).
Phrasal verbs show up in several of the examples of Plain English rewrites provided in the NPR and SEC guidelines.
the direct object of a
phrasal verb which takes the form of a pronoun is more natural than the direct object of a
phrasal verb which takes the form of a full noun phrase.
The particle element of the
phrasal verb acts as a kind of adverb, although many started life as prepositions.
1999 "Composite Predicates and
phrasal verbs in The Paston Letters", in: Laurel Brinton -- Minoji Akimoto (eds.), 97-132.
Oliver then listed several verbs and
phrasal verbs that show stages of a robot dying: blacked out, shut down, fell apart, and exploded.
Among their topics are the derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena, reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language, fixer-uppers: reduplication in the derivation of
phrasal verbs, focus on repetition: the role of focus and repetition in echo questions, and an analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends.
Delaney, who recently had to study
phrasal verbs to find an effective way to teach it, spends time studying material outside of tutoring sessions to better aid her students.
From black-top readers, who are generally interested in serious news stories and want to read an opinion that agrees with their own; to red-top readers, who enjoy gossip and intrigue, there is an abundance of collocations,
phrasal verbs, fixed phrases and idiomatic expressions people use every day.