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      Phrasal Verbs: Is there an easy way of learning them?
      Submitted by gradedreading on 12 March, 2011 - 21:15

      The short answer is no but there are guidelines that can help - see here:  http://englishlanguage.eslreading.org/grammar/grammar/phrasalverbs.html

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      With intermediate to advanced
      Submitted on 15 March, 2011 - 06:15

      With intermediate to advanced students ranging from middle school to adult ages, I've taught phrasal verbs along with collocations. The book I normally use is "English Collocations in Use" by McCarthy and O'Dell. Over the course of this study, students learn to recognize a number of collocation types: adjectives and nouns, nouns and verbs (phrasal verbs), noun + noun, verbs and expressions with prepositions (phrasal verbs), verbs and adverbs (phrasal verbs), and adverbs and adjectives.

      I try to help students learn to recognize lexical groups when they occur, and by presenting those structures in categorical contexts: time, family, love, personality, politics, sports, etc...