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AppleFanboy Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Calling on insult?
Calling on the most disgracing insult he could summon, Eisenhower told the plebe that he looked like a barber.
Calling on insult..
I want to know why 'on' came after 'calling'
Is it because 'call on' is a prepositional verb or the noun 'insert' needs the preposition 'on'.
If it is the latter, do people use it much, is there any other preposition I can put instead and does the meaning change if I just say 'call on'?
Calling on insult..
I want to know why 'on' came after 'calling'
Is it because 'call on' is a prepositional verb or the noun 'insert' needs the preposition 'on'.
If it is the latter, do people use it much, is there any other preposition I can put instead and does the meaning change if I just say 'call on'?
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AppleFanboy Is it because 'call on' is a prepositional verb Yes.
- AppleFanboy Is it because 'call on' is a prepositional verb Yes.
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From the context does 'call' mean 'to use a word or name to describe someone in particular way.'
or 'to say or shout something loudly so that someone can hear you'?
or 'to say or shout something loudly so that someone can hear you'?
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If you had to isolate a meaning for "call", I suppose it would roughly be "summon" (though "summon on" does not work). However, "call on" is an idiomatic combination that is best treated as a phrase, meaning, in this case, "summon up" or "have recourse to".
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AppleFanboyIs it because 'call on' is a prepositional verbCorrect. Sometimes it's "call upon" as well.
CJ
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