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Ellisa Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Preposition VS. particle

Hello my teachers!

I've researched some sentences as a homework but I'm not sure whether I separated them correctly. The h.w is telling whether the verbs in a sentence is prepositional verb or phrasal verb.

Hope you could check!

Millions thanks in advance!

Q. Are these phrasal verbs (not prepositional ones but particle)?
  1. but the teacher will have mixed them up so that she doesn’t give them out in a perfect sequence.
2. If you put them together in the right way, these marks can tell stories.

3. Good ideas for putting them back to work are running into a wall of congressional opposition in the face of deficit worries.

4. Few had had the energy or talent to capture them and transform them into communicable experience.

5. Madame Bovary had taught him about provincial middle-class life.

6. A man he couldn’t see was steering the gurney expertly on its rubber treads, bumping it through doorways and, once, giving it a generous push…

7. I photocopied pages and put them on an overhead transparency.

8. In 2003, the loss of the shuttle Columbia forced NASA to again call off further launches.
  

Top answer

These are verbs + prepositions: 4, 5, 6, 7.

  • These are verbs + prepositions: 4, 5, 6, 7.
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These are verbs + prepositions: 4, 5, 6, 7.

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