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Come across Posted 8 years ago
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Is 'look carefully into' grammatical?
Hello. As I know, 'look into' is an inseparable phrasal verb. I saw the phrase 'look carefully after' but I'm wondering if it is grammatical. This is because I heard that 'run unexpectedly across' is ungrammatical since 'run across' is an inseparable.phrasal verb.
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come across I saw the phrase 'look carefully after' but I'm wondering if it is grammatical. Assuming it means "look after" in the sense of "care for" or "take care of", no, that doesn't work.
- come across I saw the phrase 'look carefully after' but I'm wondering if it is grammatical.
- Assuming it means "look after" in the sense of "care for" or "take care of", no, that doesn't work.
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come acrossI saw the phrase 'look carefully after' but I'm wondering if it is grammatical.
Assuming it means "look after" in the sense of "care for" or "take care of", no, that doesn't work.
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come acrossAs I know, 'look into' is an inseparable phrasal verb.
But you seem not to know what that means. It means you can't insert the objectof that verb between the two elements 'look' and 'into'. It doesn't say anything about adverbs.
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