What are phrasal verbs?

Hi,

Phasal verbs are verbs combined with a particle, for example a preposition or adverb.

Kind regards,

Dokterjokkebrok

Here are some examples of phrasal verbs.

pick up, drop in, find out, throw away, pop up, come up, fall down, chip in, pick out, put up, put down, toss out, think up, slow down, look up, dig out, spread out, turn off, turn on, take on, take off, put on, rub out.

CJ

dokterjokkebrok Phasal verbs are verbs combined with a particle

Pardon my ignorance. My dictionary defines "particle" as any word without inflection. Would that include the bare infinitive?
Are any parts of speech specifically excluded?
Must a verb always come first?
Are we limited to a single particle?

Thanks, - A.

The first word of a phrasal verb is always a verb, but that second word of a phrasal verb is variously dubbed in the literature as an "adverb", a "preposition", or a "particle". A bare infinitive is never called a particle.
I believe we are limited to a single particle. Though some textbooks call combinations like "put up with" phrasal verbs (with two 'particles'), others hold that they a

Thanks, Jim.
My AmHtg. is similarly vague on "particle."
(One of a class of forms, such as prepositions and conjunctions)
It also mentions prefixes and suffixes. There's not actually a definition of the "class."

[:^)] - A.

I was trying to challenge myself to find phrasal verbs with three parts. I came up with "go through with" as in "So are you going to go through with the nose job after all?"

All three need to be there for the expression to work. Are there others?

I was trying to challenge myself to find phrasal verbs with three parts. I came up with "go through with" as in "So are you going to go through with the nose job after all?"

All three need to be there for the expression to work. Are there others?

Edit: Oh - Put up with!

Hmmm - "Look up to?"

Grammar GeekAre there others?

Quite a few -- most of them with with as the third element. But the controversy involves whether there are any in which the third element cannot be analyzed as a preposition that introduces its own object: with the nose job can be considered a prepositional phrase. A "real particle" in a phrasal verb is not prepos

Tell me you looked these up and didn't really rattle them all off from the top of your head?

(Oh - rattle off - another phrasal!)