Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 33', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Multi-word lexical verbs 425 The most common phrasal-prepositional verbs CORPUS FINDINGS 2 A A Most common phrasal-prepositional verbs are activity verbs see Table . - The most frequent verb overall is get out of. Come out of and get back to are also relatively frequent. In the mental domain look forward to is the most common verb. Very few phrasal-prepositional verbs are used commonly with two objects Pattern 2 however two passive verbs occur with moderate frequency in academic prose be set up in and be set out in. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS Most common phrasal-prepositional verbs are activity verbs especially in conversation and fiction. The combination get out of is the most frequent with two major uses. Imperative Just get out of my way. conv Get out of there conv Declarative Vie have to get out of here pict Several other activity phrasal-prepositional verbs are relatively common in these two registers I ve never heard a word come out of her mouth conv You can go up to full beam can t you conv Stop yakking and get on with it conv Omi came out of his reverie pict J He said he would get back to me . pict Burns went up to the soldiers and started talking pict Apart from these activity verbs only the mental verb look forward to is relatively common across registers occurring especially in fiction and news She had been looking forward to this moment pict In the case of news reportage this verb typically occurs in direct or reported speech We are looking forward to the game news He said he was looking forward to the results of the inquiry news Two other phrasal-prepositional verbs are relatively common in news reportage get back to and come up with It s going to take time for you to get back to full strength news The panel will be asked to come up with the best all-time team on earth. news Finally although phrasal-prepositional verbs are generally rare in academic prose the single verb be set out in set NP out in is commonly used to identify the source of
