Abstract :
The forms of English verb are quite different than Indonesian verb because
English verb have more variant forms rather than Indonesian as in irregular and
regular forms. In that case, there are a set of English verbs which demonstrate
some unique properties known as phrasal verbs which is not similar to
characteristics of common verbs. Regarding to that, in this research the writer is
interested to analyze phrasal verb used in English Electronic Textbook for Senior
High School. Thus, the aim of this research is to describe the most used type of
phrasal verbs in the textbook of Developing English Competencies of Senior High
School. Further, in order to do the research, the writer applied descriptive
qualitative method and propose Radford’s theory (2009). As the result of the
research, it shows that there are 31 data in total from the five selected narrative
text in the Textbook of Developing English Competencies related to phrasal verb
and from the total of the data, the writer noticed that the most type of phrasal verb
used in the selected narrative texts is the intransitive phrasal verb.