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I'm trying to think of a prepositional verb that can be split by an object.
1.Call on (visit)
2.Call up (summon)
1. *I called my friends on.
2. I called my friends up.
#2 is a phrasal verb.
Also, I don't beleive that a
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I guess if you don't know the verb at all, you're stuck, Lana. There are no prescriptive rules, only guidelines. Greenbaum & Quirk list five differences:
(1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object, but the particle of a
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