Two-Part Verbs, WILL For Responding To Requests, Requests With Modals and WOULD YOU MIND

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TWO-PART

VERBS
Phrasal verbs
A phrasal verb looks like an ordinary verb followed by an adverb or a preposition—or
sometimes followed by an adverb and a preposition. However, its meaning is different from
the mean ing of the ordinary verb by itself.

The following verbs are the ones that most often form part of phrasal verbs.
break go set
bring hold sit
carry look take
come make turn
find move work
get pick
give put

The following adverbs and prepositions are those that most often form part of phrasal verbs.
about down out
after for over
along in through
around/ into to
round off up
away on with
back onto
Intrasitive phrasal verbs
What time do you normally get up?

Transitive phrasal verbs

When did they knock down that house?

Most transitive phrasal verbs can be separated. That is, the direct object may go in the middle
of the phrasal verb.

When did they knock that house down?

Short object:
She let the cat out.

Long object:
She let out the children in grades 4 and 5.

Object=personal pronoun: it always goes inside.


She let them out. [not *She let out them.*]

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