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Phrasal verbs SEE ALSO
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38–39 Verbs
NEW VERBS ARE FORMED BY ADDING AN ADVERB OR  40–41 Adverbs
Prepositions 60–61 
A PREPOSITION TO AN EXISTING VERB. Hyphens 106–107 
A phrasal verb is a compound of a verb and an adverb, a verb and
a preposition, or a verb, an adverb, and a preposition. Phrasal verbs
work like regular verbs, but they are mostly used in informal speech.

Most new verbs in
Adverb phrasal verbs The adverb up changes the
meaning of the verb get, the English language
Composed of an existing verb resulting in a phrasal verb
followed by an adverb, an adverb that means “to rise, usually are phrasal verbs.
phrasal verb works in the same way after sleeping,” rather than
“to receive or obtain.”
as a regular verb—as a single unit.
The adverb is essential to the
phrasal verb’s meaning, either
intensifying the sense of the • The small words used to form
preceding verb or changing its
meaning entirely. Adverbs like phrasal verbs—adverbs and
prepositions—are often known
up, down, out, or off are often
used to form phrasal verbs. adverb phrasal verb as particles.
• Phrasal verbs are never
hyphenated.

Prepositional phrasal verbs Versatile verbs
Prepositional phrasal verbs consist of Only a handful of adverbs and
a verb followed by a preposition, such prepositions are needed to
as by, after, in, on, or for. The preposition create a range of phrasal verbs
links the verb to the noun or pronoun that with different meanings. Using
follows—the direct object. Prepositional a different phrasal verb can
phrasal verbs are always transitive, but completely change the
unlike adverb phrasal verbs, prepositional meaning of a sentence. For
phrasal verbs cannot usually be separated example, “Paulo is looking
by the direct object (see “Word order”). after the game” means that
he is in charge of the game.