Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Jul 21, 2014 0:53:33 GMT 5.5
Transforming phrasal verbs of some structure into participial adjective to qualify nouns attributively.
You can transform phrasal verbs of the form
verb + particle + preposition (v.p.pr)
such as face up to
into participial adjectives by turning the verbs into their past participles and connecting the elements of the phrase by hyphens (-), and modify nouns with these adjectives attributively.
A noun phrase thus formed usually takes the form of
determiner + adverb + participial adjective + noun
How is this participial adjective form attained? Well, take a look that the following:
You can transform phrasal verbs of the form
verb + particle + preposition (v.p.pr)
such as face up to
into participial adjectives by turning the verbs into their past participles and connecting the elements of the phrase by hyphens (-), and modify nouns with these adjectives attributively.
A noun phrase thus formed usually takes the form of
determiner + adverb + participial adjective + noun
| determiner, etc. | adverb | participial adjective | noun (noun phrase) |
| an | eagerly | looked-forward-to | development |
| most dropouts' | frequently | gone-in-for | pastime |
| this | reluctantly | done-away-with | piece of legislation |
| his | poorly | faced-up-to | responsibilities |
| that | patiently | put-up-with | interference |
How is this participial adjective form attained? Well, take a look that the following:
1. Everybody is looking forward to that development eagerly.Note: As pointed out above, this transformation is usually restricted to phrasal verbs of the structure verb + particle + preposition, from which the last element (preposition) is not removable. For example, you cannot say
2. That development is being looked forward to eagerly.
3. This is an eagerly looked-forward-to development.
4.Face up to and put up with go as a set.To these responsibilities he faced up.
5.With that irritating interference he patiently put up.