Jim Martin wrote on 30 October 2014 to sysfling:
My rule of thumb, when worrying if a phrasal verb is behavioural or mental/verbal, is that it is behavioural.
Blogger Comment:
As a caveat to this rule of thumb, it's worth noting some of the phrasal verbs that commonly serve as mental (or verbal) processes:
- figure out
- find out
- get over
- give away
- hold onto
- look forward to
- look into
- look up
- look up to
- make up
- mix up
- put up with
- sort out
Sample clauses featuring these verbs can be viewed
here.
An alphabetical list of more than 1,000 phrasal verbs can be found
here.
