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Grammar Lists Main Menu.As grammar teachers know, we easily find ourselves wandering around in a swamp when trying to distinguish verbs+preposition combinations from verb+particle (phrasal verbs) combinations and verb+particle+preposition combinations. Here are some rules you can use to separate phrasal verbs from verb+preposition combinations:
Three
rules for separating phrasal verbs from verb+preposition combinations.
And here are three lists of the various ways we combine verbs and prepositions in English:
Phrasal
verbs+preposition combinations
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Grammar on the Web Home Page.Pat
Byrd
Department of Applied Linguistics
& ESL
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30302
patbyrd@gsu.edu
Telephone: 404-651-2934