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Andre Vigano Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Do you know if the phrasal verb "looking into" acts as a monotransitive verb? the sencence would be: when i was looking into the car...
  

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or is it a copulative?

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or is it a copulative?
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Do you mean that you were investigating the topic of a car, or that you were standing outside a car and looking through the car windows?

Clive
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"Looking into" as searching for things inside the car.. The sentence goes on like this: "When I was looking into my car, I discovered I had had my stereo stolen.."
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Sorry! It's the other way round, it means looking through the car windows! Thank you for you reply!
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In that sense, I don't see 'look into' as a special phrasal verb.
You can look over/under/behind the car, etc. etc.

Clive
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"Look in" and "Look into" have separate entries here (#s 24, 25): http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/look?r=66

Look into meaning "investigate" is a phrasal verb.
I agree with Clive about look in / into that there is nothing that would make it of special note. I'd call it a v
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