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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
How do you know when a phrasal verb can be separable or not?
Hello everyone![:-D]
I've been learning english for many years, but since now, I didn't study the so-called "phrasal verbs". I am a spanish speaker so they are quite difficult to me.
Anyway,the question I have is the next :
How do you know that a phrasal verb can be separable or it can't?Is there any rule or do you have to learn whether it can be separable or not by heart?
Thank you very much!
I've been learning english for many years, but since now, I didn't study the so-called "phrasal verbs". I am a spanish speaker so they are quite difficult to me.
Anyway,the question I have is the next :
How do you know that a phrasal verb can be separable or it can't?Is there any rule or do you have to learn whether it can be separable or not by heart?
Thank you very much!
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No, there are few rules. Intransitive phrasal verbs are inseparable (of course, because they have no object). Three-word phrasals are also inseparable.
- No, there are few rules.
- Intransitive phrasal verbs are inseparable (of course, because they have no object).
- Three-word phrasals are also inseparable.
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No, there are few rules. Intransitive phrasal verbs are inseparable (of course, because they have no object). Three-word phrasals are also inseparable.
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It seems to me that almost all the transitive phrasal verbs are separable, so probably just making note of those that are not separable would be the way to memorize them. There are a number of particles (up, down, in, out, on, off, away, back) which are almost always indicators of a separable verb. There are others (with, without, by, for, at, across, of, from, to, into) which
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