corum
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You say phrasal verbs can stand alone, so I asked what your definition of phrasal verb was. Of course it's a genuine question; you are making a statement about phrasal verbs that is patently wrong.
Tell me which of my statements about phrasal verbs is patently wrong, please.
Your example of 'passed away' has nothing to do with whether a verb is catenative or not; it's simply an intransitive phrasal verb and doesn't prove anything either way.
You still fail to grasp my point. Again :-|, what I was trying to say in the first place was that catenatives always take a verbal that they help in a certain way, aspectually, or otherwise. Phrsasal verbs never (and never is the operative word) take a verbal that they help, and this is part of my definition for a phrasal verb.
This viewpoint is debatable:
Many would have given up. However, I kept on. :tick: For that matter, you could get rid of 'However'
What is not debatable in this world, dear Richard?
I kept on. :tick:
There is an understood verbal following the catenative. I do not know of any pvs with which there is an understood verbal.
Is this catenative?
I kept on to the end.
Yes, it is, in my opinion, because there is an implied verbal which we can derive from the linguistic or extralinguistic context.
If I say out of the blue 'I kept on', is it a complete idea, IYO?
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