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Prepositions don't have to be part of a phrasal verb, in fact I would say most aren't. In this case, none of the prepositions have any special relation to the verb. They're all literal descriptors of the positions the subject goes through during the action.

Try to break up the sentence into the smallest chunks that make sense. Here: He fell. Yeah, that makes sense, that's true. Okay, where did he fall? Into the pool. What did he fall off of? He fell off the ledge. So now, put it together.

He fell off the ledge and into the pool.

You can leave out the "and" here, but it's still there for grammatical purposes. You can tell if you use three prepositions:

He fell off the ledge, through the air, and into the pool.

You can't leave out the "and" here, there's no way to use three prepositions without the conjunction. That means that there's no way to do it with two, either, and the "and" is still there, it's just not spoken.

Right and straight are both intensifiers, and don't really make sense to me here. There's not exactly an indirect way to fall off a ledge and into a pool.

I hope this helps.

Edit: A note to help distinguish between phrasal verbs and normal prepositional adverb phrases: phrasal verbs don't accept objects of the preposition, and they don't pair with prepositions in conjunction phrases.

The roof fell in. good
The roof fell in the house. not good
The roof fell in and onto the ground. not good
The roof fell in onto the ground. good

Does that help you see the difference a little better?

Let's contemplate:

1. "In particular" is an idiomatic expression that means "in distinction from others" or "specifically". This expression usually refers to nouns and is set apart by a comma when it occurs at the beginning of a sentence or a phrase.
2. "Particularly" means "in detail" or "to an unusual degree". It is an adverb, and as such it can be used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb but not nouns. It is not set off by a comma from the rest of the sentence.

Both uses of particular have the same meaning, but are used in different ways. We could also say in specific and specifically (which is more formal but has the same meaning). ELB - English Lessons Brighton.

Often, particularly can also be used as an adverb in place of in particular to specify something individually. But in this case it is used relative to earlier details. Examples below have the same meaning:

• The weather was bad this week, particularly on Wednesday.
• The weather was bad this week, on Wednesday in particular.

Here, used in a relative clause (one that works relating to the main clause), particularly means specifically or especially, and is essentially the same as in particular. But if we used it in the main clause, the meanings of the two phrases would differ:

• The weather was particularly bad this week. (The weather was worse than usual.)
• In particular, the weather was bad this week. (The weather was one thing that was specifically bad, amongst other things.)

Note, though, that in particular can never be used in place of particularly to modify verbs.

Summing up, yes, we can use both words in a sentence:

• In particular, disease A is considered particularly contagious. (Specifically, disease A is considered highly (unusually) contagious.)

Extra Info: "Considered" and "Considered to be" are interchangeable, however, "To be" is redundant)*. You can also say, "Considered as being"