Phrasal verb
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 verb and a particle and/or a preposition 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-compositional 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 compound verb, verb-adverb combination, verb-particle construction, two-part word/verb or three-part word/verb (depending on the number of particles) and multi-word verb.
Words
This table shows the example usage of word lists for keywords extraction from the text above.
Word | Word Frequency | Number of Articles | Relevance |
---|---|---|---|
verb | 9 | 1705 | 0.543 |
phrasal | 6 | 40 | 0.53 |
verbs | 5 | 565 | 0.343 |
verb-particle | 2 | 1 | 0.232 |
particle | 4 | 3284 | 0.222 |