phrasal verb, prepositional phrase
I walk to the store, “Walk to the store” is a verb phrase.
According to the wikipedia, “to the store” is a prepositional phrase, and “walk to” is a prepositional phrasal verb which is another type of “phrasal verb”.
But in this post, it says that “think about” in “He never thinks about(or of) other people.” is verb + preposition and “put on” in “put on your coat” is a phrasal verb. This sound like an opposite to what it is in wikipedia.
I think some quotes from wikipedia will explain this:
1. The Collins Cobuild English Grammar (1995:162) is a source that takes prepositional verbs to be phrasal verbs. Many other grammars, in contrast, distinguish between prepositional verbs (the additional word is a preposition) and phrasal verbs (the additional word is a particle).
2. The terminology of phrasal verbs is inconsistent. Modern theories of syntax tend to use the term phrasal verb to denote particle verbs only; they do not view prepositional verbs as phrasal verbs.
3. Literature in EFL/ESL (English as a foreign or second language), in contrast, tends to employ the term phrasal verb to encompass both prepositional and particle verbs.
