Abstract
* The crucial notion underlying the proposal in Clayton M. Darwin and Loretta S. Gray's article in TESOL Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 1999) is that all verb + particle combinations should be considered as phrasal verbs until they can be proven otherwise. For them, phrasal verb consists of a verb proper and a morphologically invariable particle that function together as a single unit both lexically and (pp. 76-77). The combination give up would be an example of this class. From among the traditional syntactic tests, only those showing that the combination does not function as a single unit either lexically or syntactically would rule a combination out of membership in the class of phrasal verbs. What if this approach actually rules out combinations that aid in the teaching of these structures, rather than extending the potential membership in the class of phrasal verbs, as Darwin and Gray suggest? For example, their definition would rule out walk out, which can be eliminated with adverb insertion (only one of the tests that would do this):
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