Ill throw it away. Take them off.
We cant put an adverb between the verb and particle or between the particle and object:
* I paid the loan back early. (not: I paid early back the loan. / I paid back early the loan.)
We cant put a relative pronoun immediately before or after the particle:
* Thats the room which I did up. (not: Thats the room which up I did. / Thats the room up which I did.)
3) These phrasal verbs take an object, but we cannot separate the verb from the particle. These phrasal verbs are
called prepositional verbs (verb + preposition)- look into, look for, look at.
 |
Sue takes after her mother. Looking after a baby is hard work.
We put the object (noun / pronoun) after the preposition and not between the verb and preposition (compare
with the second type):
* We didnt fall for it / his story. (not: We didnt fall his story for. / We didnt fall it for.)
4) These phrasal verbs have three parts: a verb + particle + preposition. We cannot separate the verb from the
other parts. These verbs can be made passive:
* All her employees looked up to her. (active)
* She was looked up to by all her employees. (passive)
Im looking forward to the weekend.
You go now and Ill catch up with you later.
Phrasal verbs form tenses, and are used in questions and negatives and in the passive voice, in the same way as other verbs:
* Will you be putting the party off? * The party has been put off until next month.
We never separate the verb and the particle in the passive form:
* That story was made up by a resentful employee.
We can sometimes form nouns from multi-part verbs:
* The car broke down five kilometers from home. (multi-part verb)
* The breakdown happened five kilometers from home. (noun)
