Separable & Inseparable Phrasal Verbs

Any help on this?

Hello Krish

How did you spend the New Years holidays? Do you have a custom of taking holidays at the start of a year in Southern India?

By the way, I feel what you are asking for is difficult to answer. I think you already know that most of the transitive phrasal verbs in the form of <verb + adverbial particle> are separable. But the problem is that the same particle functi

Thanks for the explanation, Paco2004. My New Year holidays were quit enjoyable, and I personally prefer taking a couple of days off at the beginning of each year. Thanks again for your keen observation and asking.

I"m trying to find that out, too! It's really difficult.

There's no easy way to know, Anon.

Here's an article from Purdue's OWL.

This may or may not be useful, as it is on a similar topic, but not the exact same one.
Check it out, noting later in the same thread:

"There are a number of particles (up, down, in, out, on, off, away, back) which should make us very suspicious that we are dealing with a separable phrasal verb, and a number of them (with, without, by, for, at, across, of, from, to, in

what is separable phrasal verb?

AnonymousWhat is a separable phrasal verb?

Have you tried to look it up, Anon?

Nope, sorry. There is no rule. See this useful handout from Purdue.
[EDIT] OOPS, I didn't see all the other posting with references to OWL! It is a very good site, indeed.

a good dictionary