VERBS

Chapter 5
 Take it as read
Required reading 3
Longman: Verbs (Chapter 5) pp. 123-135.
Thomson/Martinet: Verb forms and spelling (PDF)

Verbs Chapter 5 worksheets 1 and 2

(upload before 30 March)
Suggested reading
Longman: Verbs (Chapter 5) pp. 102-123, 135-147.
Greenbaum & Quirk, Chapter 3
 Multi-word lexical verbs

1. phrasal verbs (The plane has taken off.)

2. prepositional verbs (Can you cope with it?)
3. phrasal-prepositional verbs
(They look down on us.)

4. free combinations (Come back, you fool!)

 Phrasal verbs
 intransitive
Hold on! I’ll be there in a jiffy.

 transitive
Why did you have to bring it up?

 copular (turn out/end up/wind up)

 Prepositional verbs
 Pattern 1: with prepositional object
I’m listening to Cher.

 Pattern 2: with object AND

prepositional object
This film reminds me of you.
We congratulated her on her show.
 Phrasal-prepositional verbs
 Pattern 1: with prepositional object
I’m looking forward to our trip.
You won’t get away with it, mister!

 Pattern 2: with object AND

prepositional object
Everyone gets rejected from time to time;
put it down to experience.
Multi-word expressions
s y n t a c t i c t e s t s:

1. idiomatic meaning on/off

2. particle movement on/off
3. wh-question formation
 Multi-word expressions
1) no NP following >
 intransitive phrasal verb (shut up)
 free combination with adverb (go away)
IM
2) a NP following >
 transitive phrasal verb (make it up)
 transitive prepositional verb (look at them) PM
 transitive phrasal-prepositional verb
(put up with them)
WH
 free combination with PP (go to Rome)
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 Idiomatic meaning
intransitive phrasal verb or
free combination with adverb?

The car broke down just north of Paris.

↔
Come down, you’ll hurt yourself.
Particle movement
transitive phrasal verb or
transitive prepositional verb?

Pick up that book!

Pick that book up!
Pick it up!
↔
Wait for the bus!
*Wait the bus for!
*Wait it for!
Wh-question formation

We looked at that palace.

↔
We met at that palace.
Wh-question formation

We [looked at] that palace.

↔
We met [at that palace].
Wh-question formation
transitive prepositional verb or
free combination with PP?

We [looked at] that palace.

↔
We met [at that palace].
 Wh-question formation
transitive phrasal verb or
transitive phrasal-prepositional verb?

See, it's a perfect target up there.

If we can take it out on the rooftop (...)

And since he can't take it out on her...

He takes it out on you.

(COCA)