Английские фразовые глаголы и их употребление: Учеб. пособие

Phrasal verbs are considered to be a very important and frequently occurring feature of the English language. First of all, they are so common in every day conversation that non-native speakers who wish to sound natural when speaking this language need to learn their grammar in order to know how to use them correctly. Second, the habit of inventing phrasal verbs has been the source of great enrichment of the language. By means of phrasal verbs the greatest variety of human actions and relations is described. So people can be taken up, taken down, taken off, taken in or one can keep in with people, one can set people up or down, or hit people off. So there is hardly any action or attitude of one human being to another which cannot be expressed by means of these phrasal verbs. Most English language learners find phrasal verbs quite difficult. There are various reasons for this from the fact that they don't exist in their language. And what makes it worse is that many phrasal verbs have a metaphorical meaning that makes them hard to decipher, hard to remember and very difficult to produce when needed. Phrasal verbs make up one-third of the English verb vocabulary. There are approximately 12 000 phrasal verbs in English language. But there is no universal definition of phrasal verb. By Jane Povey “phrasal verb” means a combination of an “ordinary” (one-word) verb (e.g. come, give, put) and an adverbial or prepositional particle (e.g. in, off, up), or sometimes both, which constitutes a single semantic and syntactic unit. This area of English teaching was always difficult for both: teachers and students. And Jane Povey in her book try to avoid phrasal verbs in the form of long lists of phrasal verbs because the simple list of words doesn't cause imagination to work. Despite a number of mistakes made in the process of studying these lexical units, Jane Povey shows many different ways of their successful acquisition.