• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:
Type II prepositional verbs
16.7, 1168-69
prepositional verbs contrasted with phrasal verbs
16.6, 1156-57
also see sections:
16.10-15, 1161-66
• For more general information on prepostional verbs see the entry: phrasal verbs.
• For general information on multi-word verbs (of which phrasal verbs are one type) see the entry: multi-word verbs.