Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 32', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Multi-word lexical verbs 411 You go and sit down conv Shut up Just forget it. conv Go off to bed now. conv No don t get up. fict Stand up straight People are looking fict Further in declarative clauses these intransitive phrasal verbs tend to have human subjects No he came over to the study conv He would get up at daybreak fict Crowe sat up and stared at Frederica fict I sat down behind my desk fict By far the most common phrasal verb in any register is intransitive come on as used in conversation. This verb has three major functions As an exclamatory exhortation to act Come on let Andy do it. conv I mean come on it s a bit obvious conv As a pre-departure summons to move Come on we better go. conv Come on let s go. conv Meaning to start or become activated The heating didn t come on this morning conv Has that just come on conv The combination go on is the most common phrasal verb overall in the LSWE Corpus. This phrasal verb is common in all four registers serving a number of different functions As an exclamatory exhortation to act like come on above Go on. Stamp on it. conv It s alright rub it in. Go on conv To mark continued progression of a physical activity I just ignored her and went on. I didn t have time to talk conv To mark continuation of some general action intransitive If it failed once there s no point in going on. fict As time went on Liebig developed his thesis. acaik To mark continuation of some general action transitive taking a complement ing- or to-infinitive clause as direct object Labour would go on getting the public s support by constructing strong unity of purpose news Bjornsson went on to study the newspapers of 11 countries acad To mark unspecified activity with a meaning similar to happen Think what s going on. It s dreadful fict There s such and such going on. conv 412 VERBS Transitive phrasal verbs are more evenly distributed across registers. For example verbs such as put on make up and find out are relatively common in both .
