Wobbled up
Old Ma wobbled up from her bed and went to the window and threw bean out.
I read the above in my son's reading book "Molly and the Beanstalk".
What is the grammatical form and function of "up" in "wobbled up".
How do know that if "wobbled up" is a phrasal verb or not?
I couldn't decide if "up" belongs to the verb "wobble" as in a phrasal verb?
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Old Ma wobbled up from her bed and went to the window and threw bean out. "Up" is a preposition functioning as complement of "wobbled". The PP "from her bed" is part of the verb phrase but is a separate constituent.
- Old Ma wobbled up from her bed and went to the window and threw bean out.
- "Up" is a preposition functioning as complement of "wobbled".
- The PP "from her bed" is part of the verb phrase but is a separate constituent.
- I'm not familiar with the expression, but I'd say that "wobble up" is a verbal idiom (your phrasal verb), probably meaning something like 'get up unsteadily'.
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Old Ma wobbled up from her bed and went to the window and threw bean out.
"Up" is a preposition functioning as complement of "wobbled". The PP "from her bed" is part of the verb phrase but is a separate constituent.
I'm not familiar with the expression, but I'd say that "wobble up" is a verbal idiom (your phrasal verb), probably meaning something like 'get up unsteadily'.
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