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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Is 'look at' a phrasal verb?
Also is this a correct sentence?
What did you put on?
  

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Anonymous Is 'look at' a phrasal verb? Some might call it so. I would call it a prepositional verb.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Is 'look at' a phrasal verb?
  • Some might call it so.
  • I would call it a prepositional verb.
  • In any case it's not 'separable'.
  • You can say I looked at the photos , but not I looked the photos at .
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AnonymousIs 'look at' a phrasal verb?
Some might call it so. I would call it a prepositional verb. In any case it's not 'separable'.

You can say I looked at the photos, but not I looked the photos at.
AnonymousWhat did you put on?
Correct.

CJ
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Would you call the verb a non-seprable transitive phrasal verb?
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Anonymous Would you call the verb a non-separable transitive phrasal verb?
Sure. That sounds like a good name.

CJ
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Anonymous Would you call the verb a non-seprable transitive phrasal verb?
If 'look at' is a phrasal verb, then so is any verb+preposition combination.

I think some writers put 'look at' in the list of phrasal verbs simply because it can be translated into some languages (French, for example) as one word. As both 'look' and 'at' are used with their cor
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