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in the sentence I was a about to read. What's the function of was a about to? Is it a phrasal prepositional verb or not?

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It's a preposition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preposition
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was about to = was going to
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what absolute rubbish!
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yes

in the imperfect tense
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Huh?
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