Timeline for Is there any rule about splitting phrasal verbs?
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 23:30 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @tkp They spend many pages describing their usage of the term. So, no. The relevant Wikipedia article discusses the conflicting usages of the term. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 22:01 | comment | added | tkp | @EdwinAshworth, doesn't the very existence of the aforementioned 'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs' suggest that the term is fairly widely understood? Or is your point that the term is unhelpful in this specific instance? | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The term 'phrasal verb' itself is unhelpful, as different grammarians use it in different and conflicting ways. // Different verbs behave differently. The 'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs' (I believe they use the term in its most general sense; I'd use 'multi-word verbs') usefully adds 'inseparable', 'optionally separable' and 'obligatorially separable' with each transitive usage it lists. | |
| Jun 30, 2015 at 17:51 | answer | added | Adrienne C | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 20:22 | vote | accept | Nick Anderegg | ||
| Aug 7, 2012 at 20:06 | answer | added | Jon Hanna | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:40 | history | edited | JSBձոգչ |
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| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:39 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:23 | comment | added | rsegal | @Robusto Presumably, the outspoken "pettifogging fussbudgets". Incidentally, that's become my new favorite insult. Now I just need to look up what it means... ;) | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:22 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:22 | comment | added | Nick Anderegg | Notice how after that statement, when I referred back to the rule, I put "rule" in quotes. This isn't so much a functional question as it is a "do people care about petty crap like this" question. | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:19 | comment | added | Robusto | There is no "don't put a preposition at the end of a sentence" rule, except in the minds of pettifogging fussbudgets. Where'd you get that idea from? | |
| Aug 7, 2012 at 19:17 | history | asked | Nick Anderegg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |