Hello Mara Riglos What would you call the following verbs? Phrasal prepositional verbs, phrasal verbs, three word phrasal verbs, or just phrasals plus a preposition? put up with = tolerate.
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RiglosWhat would you call the following verbs? Phrasal prepositional verbs, phrasal verbs, three word phrasal verbs, or just phrasals plus a preposition?
put up with = tolerate.
stand up for = defend.
catch up with = discover some wrongness and punish it / cause problems to someone
get up to = do something, often something that other people would
It depends on which of the standard test patterns you want to accept as grammatical.
*Yesterday we had to put up with mosquitoes, and the day before up with flies.
Here the clear ungrammaticality of the sentence shows that "put up" is a unit.
?Yesterday we had to put up with mosquitoes, and the day before with flies.
?Yesterday we had to put up with mosquitoes, an