Of course, your sentence is grammatically correct. Who tells you that the people in English speaking countries are not using the phrasal verb "to pick up" in their speech? However, my native language is not the English language

Have you been seeing endipatterson's pleas for help with "Venn diagrams of phrasal verbs" or whatever they are? endipatterson has little room for joking. Peter T. Daniels Thank you Peter, but I didn't realise that I come across

my friend was preparing a speech for English lesson and ... it before and this is why i told her it. As Tony says, the phrasal verb is 'put out' a fire. I wonder whether there's some confusion here with "lay down fire" (as

my friend was preparing a speech for English lesson and she asked me how to say "extinguish" in English (she ... where is it?). i just think i must have heard it before and this is why i told her it. As Tony says, the phrasal verb is

my friend was preparing a speech for English lesson and she asked me how to say "extinguish" in English (she asked in Polish though ;)) and I told her it was "to put down the fire". the teacher didn't like it and it turned