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Vocabulary
Claw down
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"The ratings lads (almost always lads, of course) who AAA-rated sub-prime loans and derivatives in America are now – via their poisonous influence on the markets – clawing down the people of Europe by threatening to lower or withdraw
the very same ratings from European nations which they lavished upon criminals before the financial crash in the US."
[From The Independent.]
Is the phrase "clawing down" a form of the phrasal verb 'claw down' or form of the verb 'claw' qualified by the adverb 'down'?
Thank you.
"The ratings lads (almost always lads, of course) who AAA-rated sub-prime loans and derivatives in America are now – via their poisonous influence on the markets – clawing down the people of Europe by threatening to lower or withdraw
the very same ratings from European nations which they lavished upon criminals before the financial crash in the US."
[From The Independent.]
Is the phrase "clawing down" a form of the phrasal verb 'claw down' or form of the verb 'claw' qualified by the adverb 'down'?
Thank you.
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Claw down is a phrasal verb. It has a different meaning than the verb claw with a prepositional phrase. My cat has clawed up all our furniture.
- Claw down is a phrasal verb.
- It has a different meaning than the verb claw with a prepositional phrase.
- My cat has clawed up all our furniture.
- (Phrasal verb) Tle bear clawed his way up the tree .
- (verb + preopsitional phrase)
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Claw down is a phrasal verb. It has a different meaning than the verb claw with a prepositional phrase.
My cat has clawed up all our furniture. (Phrasal verb)
Tle bear clawed his way up the tree. (verb + preopsitional phrase)
My cat has clawed up all our furniture. (Phrasal verb)
Tle bear clawed his way up the tree. (verb + preopsitional phrase)
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