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SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS INSEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS
The object can go
If a phrasal verb has a after the particle. Some phrasal verbs cannot be separated. The object must always
direct object, it can come after the particle; it can never sit between the particle and the
sometimes go verb. This is true whether the object is a noun or a pronoun.
between the verb and
the particle. Phrasal The verb and the particle
verbs that do this are must stay together.
called “separable”
phrasal verbs.
The object can also go between
the verb and the particle.
This is wrong. The object can’t sit
between the verb and the particle.
FURTHER EXAMPLES
FURTHER EXAMPLES
COMMON MISTAKES SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS
If the direct object of a separable The pronoun cannot go at
phrasal verb is a pronoun, it Pronoun the end of the sentence.
must go between the verb and
the particle.
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