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This dictionary -the only American Dictionary of phrasal verbs -contains nearly 14,000 definitions and paraphrases of more than 12,000 verb + particle combinations The entries also include common slang, colloquial and idiomatic usage. Among the special features of NTC’s Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs & Other Idiomatic Verbal Phrases are the following : Entry phrases include an indication of whether a direct or indirect object refers to people, things or both. Many phrases can take additional prepositions, prepositional phrases, or particles, and these optional elements are identified in the entry phrase. Verb phrases, which are clichés, folksy, informal, stilted, or figurative, are included and identified accordingly. Entries which contain the same verb + particle combination are grouped together making it fast and easy to locate any phrase in the dictionary. Each entry has at least two examples, which show the important structural variations of the phrase and illu. ISBN 8185617678
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Pages : 894
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