M. Iriskulov, A. Kuldashev a course in Theoretical English Grammar Tashkent 2008

The So-Called Phrasal Verbs 
One of the fundamental problems within the adverbs is the problem 
connected with such groups of verbs as: to give in, to get down, to dream about 
and so on. In most cases the meaning of such groups as above does not depend on 
the meaning of their components. The thing here is: are the second elements 
prepositions, adverbs or some other parts of speech? This problem has become 
acute in Modern English. 
The prevailing view here is that they are adverbs. But there are other views 
like Palmer's - "prepositions like adverbs"; Amosova's "postpositives" (1), Ilyish's 
"half-word, half-morphemes" (15) and so on. None of these suggestions can be 
accepted. They are not adverbs because other adverbs do not fulfill such functions, 

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i.e. they do not change the meaning of the preceding word; they are not 
postpositives, because postpositives in other languages do not serve to build new 
words, and at last they are not grammatical morphemes and consequently the 
whole group can not be a word since in English no discontinuous word is found as, 
for instance, bring them up. The word them breaks the unity. The problem remains 
unsolved. For the time being, the most acceptable theory is the theory expressed by 
B.A. Ilyish in his latest grammar. He refers them very cautiously, with doubts, to 
phraseology and thus it should be the subject-matter of the lexicology. 
Some foreign Grammarians (28), (37) give different treatment to phrasal 
verbs. According to their opinion phrasal verb is an umbrella term for different 
kinds of multi - word verbs (including phrasal - prepositional and prepositional 
verbs). Such verbs are of typical and frequent occurrence in all types of English, 
but most especially in every day spoken English. 
Phrasal verbs are often of particular difficulty experienced by learners of 
English. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that in many cases, even 
though students may be familiar with both the verb in phrasal verb and with the