Quote:
Originally Posted by udara sankalpa Hi Cas  :
Neither of the following dictionaries classifies "listen to" as a phrasal verb:
-Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
-Longman Dictionary of Contemparary English
-Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
-Collins Advanced Learners Dictionary |
You'll have to take that up with our member Nousa (See post #4, provided here below) who defined
listened to as a phrasal verb.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Noussa Hi
your sentence is correct don't change anything "listened to " is a unit that is one word it's a phrasal verb and the second to is a preposition
you're right   |
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by udara sankalpa So, would you mind letting me know if it really is phrasal verb, and what exactly a phrasal verb means? |
From
Phrasal Verb practice quiz:
Phrasal verbs in English are verbs followed by an adverb or a preposition. Often these phrasal verbs change the meaning of the verb in idiomatic ways. - blow up => explode
- work out => be successful
With some phrasal verbs the verb and preposition can be divided:- set a meeting up
- get your point of view across
Other phrasal verbs cannot be separated:
The verb
listen to does not change the meaning of the verb
listen; however, given that it is a two-part verb, that it has more than one part, that it acts as a complete syntactic and semantic unit, some will hold that it belongs to the category phrasal verb; e.g., question No.4 in this quiz on the phrasal verb
listen, here.
Note that,
A phrasal verb is also called verb-particle construction, verb phrase, multi-word verb, or compound verb. American English expressions are a type of two-part verb or, in some cases, a three-part verb.
Read more here on idiomatic and literal verb-particle constructions.
Does that help so far?
If you would like to continue this topic, please start a new thread.