A phrasal verb is a type of compound verb made up of a verb (usually one of action or movement) and a prepositional adverb--also known as an adverbial particle.Phrasal verbs are sometimes called two-part verbs (e.g., take off and leave out) or three-part verbs (e.g., look up to and look down on).
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. In English, a phrasal verb is a phrase such as turn down or ran into which combines two or three words from different grammatical categories: a and a and/or a together form a single semantic unit.
This semantic unit cannot be understood based upon the meanings of the individual parts, but must be taken as a whole. In other words, the meaning is non- and thus unpredictable.
Phrasal verbs that include a preposition are known as prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs that include a particle are also known as particle verbs. Additional alternative terms for phrasal verb are, verb-adverb combination, verb-particle construction, two-part word/verb, and three-part word/verb (depending on the number of particles),.