Timeline for Is "out" a preposition or an adverb in these sentences?
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| May 10, 2014 at 12:28 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'd say 'get out of' constitutes the transitive multi-word verb in OP's first example. It is a marginally variable idiom (other than get / gets / got etc): 'get the hell out of' (equivalent to adding an exclamation mark and bolding). In OP's second example, 'get out' is an intransitive MWV. If we must attempt to label the individual orthographic words here, I think we're stuck with: 'out of' is a MW prepositional particle and 'out' is an adverbial particle. | |
| May 10, 2014 at 12:10 | comment | added | Gary's Student | @ColinFine ...........I have edited my answer........... | |
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| May 10, 2014 at 11:54 | comment | added | Colin Fine | how does this answer the question? | |
| May 10, 2014 at 11:31 | history | answered | Gary's Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |