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Saturday, October 15, 2005
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The 'to' in 'to ban' is not a preposition, but rather a particle that some would consider to be a part of the infinitive.
The 'up' in 'give up' can be called a preposition, or it can be considered merely to be a part of the verb. See phrasal verb on Wikipedia. I have also seen the term 'by-verbs' used for this class of verb; this was in the book How to Learn Any Language by Barry M. Farber--I can go find it for you. However, I have found only one occurrence of this term with Google--it was on Usenet.
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