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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

He was looking [back up at] him

From the north there came another of those great roaring explosions?the sound of the devil firing a shotgun in hell?and once again Clay looked at the little man, who was looking anxiously back up at him. More smoke was rising in the sky, and in spite of the brisk breeze, the blue over there was blotted out.
<From "CELL" by Stephen King>

I'd like to know if "back" and "up" are used as an adverb respectively in "looking back up at him," not as parts of a verbal phrase.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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Could both interpretations be true? often when things are in transition they can be felt to be more than one thing at the same time. ( I say that knowing nothing about grammatical terminology, I just looked at what your question seems to ask ) d

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  • Could both interpretations be true?
  • often when things are in transition they can be felt to be more than one thing at the same time.
  • ( I say that knowing nothing about grammatical terminology, I just looked at what your question seems to ask ) d
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Could both interpretations be true? often when things are in transition they can be felt to be more than one thing at the same time.
( I say that knowing nothing about grammatical terminology, I just looked at what your question seems to ask
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Look back and look up are not phrasal verbs, as each word in the two-word group has its normal meaning. Traditional grammar would have back and up in your sentence as adverbs, and at as a preposition.. Some modern grammarians would have all three in an expanded preposition class.
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