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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
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As I struggled my mobile phone out of my tight pocket,...

Hi

Could you please edit this sentence? Is there any expression/word for when we take something out of somewhere with difficulty?

As I struggled my mobile phone out of my tight pocket, it dropped and crashed on the floor.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom As I struggled my mobile phone out of my tight pocket, This is wrong. The verb "struggle" is intransitive.

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  • Tom As I struggled my mobile phone out of my tight pocket, This is wrong.
  • The verb "struggle" is intransitive.
  • In the above, you need something like "to take" after it.
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Mr. TomAs I struggled my mobile phone out of my tight pocket,

This is wrong. The verb "struggle" is intransitive. In the above, you need something like "to take" after it.

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I'd say, e.g:

I dropped my phone on the ground trying to pull it out of my pocket.

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