{"id":71996,"date":"2019-09-11T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T08:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71996"},"modified":"2019-09-11T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T08:33:19","slug":"phrasal-verbs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Phrasal Verbs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some English verbs can be followed by prepositions or adverb particles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice <strong>ran into<\/strong> the room crying.<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>walked down<\/strong> the street.<\/li>\n<li>Do sit<strong> down.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some verbs and <strong>prepositions \/ particles<\/strong> are always used together. Examples are: <strong><em>stand up, sit down, look at, listen to, switch off<\/em><\/strong> etc. Note that these structures are often called <strong>phrasal verbs<\/strong>. In most cases, the meaning of a phrasal verb is very different from the meanings of the two words in it.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the sentence given below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The meeting has been <strong>put off<\/strong>. (The meaning of put off is different from the meanings of put and off.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Three-word verbs<\/h3>\n<p>Some verbs can be used with both an adverb particle and a preposition.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<em> get on with, put up with, look out for etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <strong>gets on<\/strong> with his mother in law quite well.<\/li>\n<li>How do you <strong>put up with<\/strong> her?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that a verb + preposition combination is usually inseparable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <strong>fell off<\/strong> the ladder. (NOT He fell the ladder off.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The particle in a verb + adverb particle combination can go before or after noun objects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He switched the light <strong>off<\/strong>. OR He<strong> switched off<\/strong> the light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the object is a pronoun, the particle goes after it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She switched it <strong>off<\/strong>. (NOT She switched off it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some English verbs can be followed by prepositions or adverb particles. Alice ran into the room crying. He walked down the street. Do sit down. Some verbs and prepositions \/ particles are always used&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[316,3,1126],"class_list":["post-71996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-phrasal-verb","tag-phrasal-verbs-2","tag-three-word-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71998,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71996\/revisions\/71998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}