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2. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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   e. In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down, run into, or sit up), sometimes collocated with a preposition (e.g., get together with, run out of, or feed off of). Phrasal verbs ordinarily cannot be understood based upon ...

3. List of phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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   Wikipedia does not have an article on "list of phrasal verbs", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entries "Category:English phrasal verbs". You can also: Search for List of phrasal verbs in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the List of phrasal verbs article, using the Article Wizard if you ...

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

5. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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   Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, etc.) are also syntactic categories. Dependency grammars, however, do not acknowledge phrasal categories (at ...

6. English verbs - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs. Generally, the only inflected forms of an ...

7. Phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 2 May 2021, at 22:23 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply ...

8. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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   Phrase structure rules. Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957. [1] They are used to break down a natural language sentence into its constituent parts, also known as syntactic ...

9. Comparison of American and British English - Wikipedia

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   Directional suffix -ward(s): British forwards, towards, rightwards, etc.; American forward, toward, rightward.In both varieties distribution varies somewhat: afterwards, towards, and backwards are not unusual in America; while in the United Kingdom upward and rightward are the more common options, as is forward, which is standard in phrasal verbs such as look forward to.