FORM AND FUNCTIONS OF PHRASAL VERB IN WRITTEN AND SPOKEN ENGLISH

The main focus of this research paper is to concentrate on the form and function of phrasal verb in written and spoken English. Few aspects were added to language to enrich its vocabulary i.e. Phrasal verb, idioms and phrases. This study attempts to reveal the difficulties students endure while learning phrasal verb and misinterpretation of phrasal verb in writing. 120 first year engineering students were asked to take a comprehension test with 50 phrasal verbs (make sentence on their own) and their answers were taken as the principle for the researcher to analysis the common problems encounters in phrasal verbin the writing of Engineering students. 60 students of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Communication skills lab were used for speaking (presentation). English proficiency level of all the students was intermediate.