Hi, One rule about phrasal verbs which take objects is this: when you have a separable phrasal verb (like tell off ) and the object is a pronoun, you must put it between the verb and the particle. For this reason, you can't write "

"Sometimes I am more inclined to think over the question you raise rather than analyse the photograph itself. And this one reached the very inside of me. It's Amazing. OK That was a beautiful question. I would like to leave behind the

The driver trook the people who had been waiting for a ride. - Do you find anything wrong in it? But the explanation in the book says, it is wrong. FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE. But even if FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE, it is not sentence fragment. The

I look at the whole question in a rather simplistic way. look up is, as you say, a phrasal verb (I call them 2-word verbs). The fact that the object pronoun comes between the two parts makes no difference. It is still a phrasal verb with no

Thanks! Some verbs seem to be halfway between phrasal verbs and normal verbs followed by a normal adverb. I guess it's those kinds of verbs that sometimes confuse me. Put something in the box is not a phrasal verb though, so expect this to

W hat is a separable phrasal verb? Have you tried to look it up , Anon? The phrasal verb "look up" is separable. That means that a noun or a pronoun can be inserted between the verb (look) and the particle (up). For additional

for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off . Is 'that' a relative pronoun for 'the competence'? Is 'hopeful' an adjective? What does it mean? I hope you don't mind my

1 She stopped looking for a way out. She - pronoun, subject Stopped - main verb, simple past Looking for a way out. - gerund phrase, direct object of "stopped", answers the question "what did she stop?" looking for -

What I was meaning with the preposition and objective case query, is that I want to know if the pronoun is still the objective case if it comes before the preposition. No. A preposition governs case only in one direction. The preposition cannot

Well, it is for AP English! :) I have a feeling you and I are going to flunk AP English. I think A. Stars had good answers for the two previous questions - the phrasal verb explanation: "for" is no longer analyzed as a preposition, but