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Grammatical question on phrasal verbs

Hi,
I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me.
Regarding these two sentences,
1) She ran the curtains up.
2) She ran up the curtains.

one immediately sees that they have different meanings. However this phenomenon does not occur with all phrasal verbs and I've been wondering how I could be able to distinguish those phrasal verbs from the others.
regards,
Sebastian
  

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[nq:1]Hi, I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me. Regarding these two sentences, ... [/nq] I don't quite understand.

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  • [nq:1]Hi, I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me.
  • Regarding these two sentences, ...
  • [/nq] I don't quite understand.
  • If someone told you that the one that means "sew" has to be "ran *** up," then they are wrong.
  • Some examples off the Web: It's difficult to tell you exactly how to run up a chair cover so I borrowed a sewing machine and have run up curtains for both boys TRACY: Are you going to run up little, diminutive curtains and sew buttons on my underwear?
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[nq:1]Hi, I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me. Regarding these two sentences, ... all phrasal verbs and I've been wondering how I could be able to distinguish those phrasal verbs from the others.[/nq]
I don't quite understand. If someone told you that the one that means "sew" has to be "ran *** up," then they are wrong. Some examples off the Web:
It's d
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[nq:1]Hi, I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me. Regarding these two sentences, 1) She ran the curtains up. 2) She ran up the curtains.[/nq]
My cat does that.

john
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[nq:1]Hi, I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me. Regarding these two sentences, ... all phrasal verbs and I've been wondering how I could be able to distinguish those phrasal verbs from the others.[/nq]
(2) could mean the same as (1), and would be the normal order for (1) if the object phrase were longer (e.g., the curtains I had asked her to finish). In its
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