Also note that you can substitute phrases for these components without 
altering the meaning much: 'from' can replace 'out of', 'the best' (and 
many others) can replace 'the most'. We don't have any lexical 
fossilization here, so I too would say it's not a phrasal verb.


Karl Hagen
Department of English
Mount St. Mary's College


Stahlke, Herbert F.W. wrote:
> I'm not sure I'd treat "get ... out of" as a phrasal verb, although
> "get" and "out" are regularly components of other phrasal verbs.  One of
> the frequent traits of a phrasal verb is that the verb means something
> different from what it would if used by itself.  "Get" in this case is
> still pretty close to "receive" or "obtain", not like "get" in "get
> over" or "get on".  I would interpret "get" here as a transitive
> locative verb and "out of" + NP as its licensed locative phrase.
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> I am sure that some one or more of you will be able to make this very
> clear.
> 
> Would you consider "to get the most out of" a phrasal verb?  Or would 
> you consider "the most" as the direct object of the verb, with a 
> prepositional phrase modifier?  (Or would you consider "the most out 
> of <something>" in its entirety to be the direct object?)
> 
> 
> Odile,
> too tired to think tonight
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