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What is a phrasal verb definition?

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In English traditional grammar, a phrasal verb is the combination of two or three words from different grammatical categories – a verb and another element, such as an adverb or a preposition – to form a single semantic unit on a lexical or syntactic level

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It's an idiomatic phrase consisting of a verb and another element, typically either an adverb, as in break down, or a preposition, for example see to, or a combination of both, such as look down on.

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