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Interventizio Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Bring/take/get down
?Hi. Imagine there is a brat on a tree who keeps throwing rocks from above at the people passing by.
His mother, fed up with his behavior, urges his father to go "pick up" the boy. What would be the most commonly used verb/expression?
- GET him DOWN from there;
- BRING him DOWN from there;
- TAKE him DOWN from there;
- ???
Phrasal verbs in English radically change the meaning of the isolated verb, so I have to be careful and sure.
His mother, fed up with his behavior, urges his father to go "pick up" the boy. What would be the most commonly used verb/expression?
- GET him DOWN from there;
- BRING him DOWN from there;
- TAKE him DOWN from there;
- ???
Phrasal verbs in English radically change the meaning of the isolated verb, so I have to be careful and sure.
Top answer
Does she want the father to climb up the tree and physically carry the little hoodlum home?
- Does she want the father to climb up the tree and physically carry the little hoodlum home?
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Does she want the father to climb up the tree and physically carry the little hoodlum home?
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There are several combinations you can use:
Get him down from there and bring him home.
Bring him down from there and take him home.
Get him down from there and bring him home.
Bring him down from there and take him home.
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