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Zoltán Király Posted 4 years ago
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Is "running into you" a phrasal verb in this sentence?

It's so weird just running into you here.

  

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Zoltán Király Is "running into you" a phrasal verb in this sentence? Well, 'you' certainly can't be part of any kind of verb, but "to run into" is not a phrasal verb either. It can be taken literally ( Tom ran into a door and hurt his head ) or figuratively ( I ran into an old friend of mine at the mall yesterday ).

  • Zoltán Király Is "running into you" a phrasal verb in this sentence?
  • Well, 'you' certainly can't be part of any kind of verb, but "to run into" is not a phrasal verb either.
  • It can be taken literally ( Tom ran into a door and hurt his head ) or figuratively ( I ran into an old friend of mine at the mall yesterday ).
  • "into" is a normal preposition, not part of a verb.
  • CJ
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Zoltán Király Is "running into you" a phrasal verb in this sentence?

Well, 'you' certainly can't be part of any kind of verb, but "to run into" is not a phrasal verb either. It can be taken literally (Tom ran into a door and hurt his head) or figuratively (I ran into an old friend of mine at the mall yesterday). "into" is a normal prepositio

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Another common idiom: run into a brick wall

Our project ran into a brick wall and came to a screeching halt.

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It's so weird just running into you here.


Dictionaries give “run into” as a phrasal verb for the meaning “meet somebody by chance”: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/run-into?q=run+into

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