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Virginia274 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Gerund after preposition.

Hi dear teachers,
I want to know what's the role of "forward" in Be looking forward to...
I think it's a particle.Am I right?It's just guessing but actually I don't know anything about particles so please if you don't mind,explain me a little.
Thanks in advance.
Virginia
  

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" A phrasal verb consists of a base verb and one or more prepositions. " We consider all the words in a phrasal verb to be part of a verb phrase - they cannot be omitted without changing the meaning of the verb. Often the meanings are idioms, because you cannot derived the meaning from the individual word definitions.

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  • " A phrasal verb consists of a base verb and one or more prepositions.
  • " We consider all the words in a phrasal verb to be part of a verb phrase - they cannot be omitted without changing the meaning of the verb.
  • Often the meanings are idioms, because you cannot derived the meaning from the individual word definitions.
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Hi Virginia;

Look forward to is a phrasal verb, meaning "to anticipate with pleasure."
A phrasal verb consists of a base verb and one or more prepositions. In this context, the prepositions are sometimes called "particles."

We consider all the words in a phrasal verb to be part of a verb phrase - they cannot be omitted without changing the meaning of the verb. Often t
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virginia274I want to know what's the role of "forward" in Be looking forward to... I think it's a particle. Am I right?
Yes. A particle is a preposition (in most cases) that complements a verb and doesn’t take any complement of its own. Look forward to… is a verbal idiom consisting of three constituents: verb + preposition + preposition phrase.
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