There are very few words between cause/causing and the preposition.

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"Sometimes a preposition comes close in the sentence to "cause/causing" but not directly after."
What does it mean by "come close in the sentence to" ?
https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/t...happened/page2
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There are very few words between cause/causing and the preposition.
Is "come close" used as in the question a phrasal verb? I cannot determine if it is a phrasal verb, but there is phrasal verb as "come close"
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I consider 'close' an adverb modifying the verb 'come'.
I think 'come close' is not a phrasal verb according to the following:
'Phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions, combining verbs and prepositions ...'── quoted from https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/
I am not a teacher.
That's one definition. Some writers consider the non-verb parts of a phrasal verb to be adverbs, others call them particles. Some writers differentiate between phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs and present both as sub-classes of multi-word verbs; some consider prepositional verbs to be a sub-class of phrasal verbs; and some use different terminology altogether.
Whatever they are called, there is no general agreement on which verbs followed by a preposition/adverb/ particle are phrasal verbs and which are not.
hhtt21, there was no reason to start a new thread to query what I posted in that other thread. You could have just quoted it and asked me directly what I meant. You keep opening new threads which refer back to the contents of other threads. It's unnecessary and is getting far too convoluted.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
No, it would not.
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