Re: (Separable) suffixes?

On 2/22/07, Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > Word spacing is an artefact of orthography. Why shouldn't the parts of
> > English phrasal verbs (or whatever they were called again) that look
> > like prepositions be considered verb suffixes?
>
> "A red bolt flashed from his palm toward the elven lady, illuminating the
> trees with a bloody light." (from Eragon)
>
> In the sentence above, "from" could be considered a verb suffixes. But what
> about "toward" and "with"?
Those aren't part of a phrasal verb. (Nor is "from" in your sentence, I'd say.)

I was talking about things such as... I don't know, "put up", "do
over", "take down", and the like.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>