The article represents the classification level of phrasal verbs of the modern English development. There are different notions of a phrasal verb in foreign and Russian linguistic studies. Three groups of the phrasal verbs are given: prepositional verbs, adverbial verbs, phrasal-prepositional verbs. The article also deals with preposition etymology and their evolution in the language development.
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