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Journal of Communicative English
THE NATURE OF ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBS: A SYNTACTICO- SEMANTIC INVESTIGATION2017 •
The main thrust of this paper is to investigate the syntactic and semantic features of the English phrasal verbs and examine the extent to which undergraduate students understand these features. Phrasal verbs from the stand point of this study were classified into subgroups according to their syntactic and semantic characteristics. The investigation, which is preceded by an extensive literature review, is aimed at tackling silent issues related to phrasal verbs. The paper shades light on the basic definitions of phrasal verbs, deals with the importance of phrasal verbs in English, and examines the syntactic and semantic features of phrasal verbs; to reveal whether these phrasal verbs are transitive or intransitive and separable or inseparable. It also focuses on the differences between phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs. Finally, the literal and idiomatic usage of English phrasal verbs has been reviewed. 684 fresh undergraduate students of Federal College of Education, Zaria, who registered and passed GENS 103 (English and Communication Skills) at credit level and above were selected for the study out of the over 1,200 that have registered for the course. In the light of the findings of the study a number of conclusions are drawn which includes: English phrasal verb consists of two basic components: a lexical verb and a particle (an adverb or a preposition), the meaning of the phrasal verbs is not implied in the meaning of the constituent elements that form them, both transitive and intransitive phrasal verbs can be used as phrasal verb but their state will be different. The results also reveal that although a number of the participants can be said to understand the different characteristics of English phrasal verbs,(43.85% on semantic knowledge, 50.58% on syntactic knowledge and 39.91% on the distinction between Phrasal verbs and Prepositional Phrases) however, larger percentage of them(56.14%, 49.41% and 60.08% respectively) still find phrasal verbs difficult to understand.
STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS
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