phrasal
Adjective
Meaning
Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a phrasal adverb.
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Examples
What I feel for you can't be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise - it beats words. It beats worlds.
phrasal verb
Gotten is also typically used in AmE as the past participle for phrasal verbs using get, such as get off, get on, get into, get up, and get around: If you hadn't gotten up so late, you might not have gotten into this mess.
Certain verb–modifier combinations, particularly when they have independent meaning (such as take on and get up), are known as " phrasal verbs ".
In the constituency tree each phrase is marked by a phrasal node (NP, PP, VP); and there are eight phrases identified by phrase structure analysis in the example sentence.
In this context, the term lexical category applies only to those parts of speech and their phrasal counterparts that form open classes and have full semantic content.