...
point to & points to pointing to pointed to pointed to
1. point to p.v. When you indicate people or things with your hand or a finger, you point
to them. When an arrow or a sign indicates ... in 1871, a few buildings survived.
The owner was arrested for deliberately
burning
his factory
down.
call in
call in & calls in
calling in
called in
called in
1. call in ... serious, formal speech or writing. But these informal phrasal
verbs are important because they are very common in everyday informal speech and
writing.
Some phrasalverbs are very easy to understand....
... to use it with their students.
Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc.
Verbs with and without objects
37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive
38 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing?
39 Verb + -ing
40 ... to die )
D We often use be to + infinitive in //-clauses to say that something must take place first (in the main
clause) before something else can take place (in the //-clause):
• are to survive ... that-clauses
46 Reporting statements (3): verb tense in the reporting clause; say and tell; etc.
47 Reporting offers, suggestions, orders, intentions, etc.
48 Should in that-clauses
49 Modal verbs in...
... Phrasalverbs are used more frequently in everyday speech
than in formal, official writing or speaking.”
2. How to study Englishphrasalverbs effectively
2.1. Studying phrasalverbs through combination ... phrasalverbs through pairs of synonym
_ Studying phrasalverbs through topic
V. Analysis and Interpretation
1. Definitions of phrasal verbs
There are a variety of definitions of phrasal verbs
1.1. ... however, may contain direct and indirect objects in addition to
the phrasal verbs. Phrasalverbs are particularly frequent in the English
language. A phrasal verb often has a meaning which is different...
... She's carrying
(or was carrying) a bag full of shopping
We can also use the present simple and present continuous like this in
commentaries (for example, on sports events) and in giving instructions:
• ... including our own behaviour:
• They're constantly having parties until the early hours of the morning.
We use the past continuous (see Unit 6) in the same way:
• He was forever including me in ... finished at a
particular point in time before now, we don't use the present perfect continuous:
• I was reading until midnight last (not I have been reading )
• • She had been living in...
... we examine the errors involving
phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb such as
sum up
will be
tagged by PARTS as noun + preposition instead of
verb + particle. This error influences the tagging of ... example, a phrasal verb like
box in
generally
appears with an intervening object (to
box something
in) , and thus when
box
and in are adjacent (except for
those rare cases involving heavy ... performance. The solution involves a change
in the definition of what counts as a word for the pur-
pose of tagging phrasal verbs.
1. INTRODUCTION
Statistical taggers are commonly used to preprocess...
... recall. In
particular, for Type II, a Noun Phrase (NP) object
can be inserted inside the compound verb. NP
insertion is an intriguing linguistic phenomenon
involving the morpho-syntactic interface: ...
identified PVs in the same way that we treat the
overlapping of single-word verbs.
The first issue in handling PVs is inflection. A
system for identifying PVs should match the
inflected forms, ... problems for
both phrasalverbs and other verbs. The
following active and passive structures involving
the PVs look after (corresponding to watch) and
carry…on (corresponding to continue) are
decoded...
... develop a skin condition I broke out in a rash after our
camping trip.
bring someone down make unhappy This sad music is bringing me
down.
English Phrasal
English Phrasal
Verbs
Verbs
... for
stealing her shoes. She stole my
favourite hat.
get back into something become interested in
something again
I finally got back into my novel
and finished it.
get on something step onto ... as learning their meanings, you
need to learn how to usephrasalverbs properly. Some phrasalverbs
require a direct object (someone/something), while others do not. Some
phrasal verbs can...