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Fold scarf 101 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar
Clean yourself
1. I’ll clean up myself.
2. I’ll clean myself up.
Are these both correct? What is the difference?
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'clean up' is a phrasal verb. , 'myself'), it always goes between the two components of the phrasal verb. So it has to be clean myself up .
- 'clean up' is a phrasal verb.
- , 'myself'), it always goes between the two components of the phrasal verb.
- So it has to be clean myself up .
- On the other hand, if you are using myself to say that you and you alone will do the cleaning, and you are cleaning something else, for example, a spill on the floor, then I'll clean up the spill myself.
- ) is OK, and by abbreviating it a bit, it can become I'll clean it up myself.
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'clean up' is a phrasal verb.
When the complement of a phrasal verb is a pronoun (e.g., 'myself'), it always goes between the two components of the phrasal verb. So it has to be
clean myself up.
On the other hand, if you are using myself to say that you and you alone will do the cleaning, and you are cleaning something else, for example, a spill on the flo
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