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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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