Multi-word Verbs: Understanding Phrasal and ... - Grammar Wiz
www.grammarwiz.com › multi-word-verbsSome learners of English find multi-word verbs difficult because they may take the literal meanings of the individual words. For example, with this sentence: I was looking forward to seeing her; It actually means to await eagerly, in this case to meet someone at a later date, but taken literally a person could think it means looking in a particular direction, such as looking ahead at someone. Misunderstanding Multi-word verbs with two meanings
Multi-word Verbs: Understanding Phrasal and …
As long as you understand that multi-word verbs are verbs plus a preposition or adverb (or both) and that they have a differing meaning to the words on their own, that is enough for most purposes. But the key difference is that an object can …