Phrasal verb
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The term phrasal verb is commonly applied to two or three distinct but related constructions in English: a verb and a particle and/or a preposition co-occur forming a single semantic unit. This semantic unit cannot be understood based upon the meanings of the individual parts in isolation, but rather it must be taken as a whole. In other words, the meaning is non-compositional and thus unpredictable.
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See also
- Catena
- Cliché
- Collocation
- Compound (linguistics)
- Dependency grammar
- Ergative verb
- Idiom
- Lexical unit
- Light verb
- Noun phrase
- Separable verb
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