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BAYRAM ERDEM Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Language Analysis.

He gave up smoking.

Is the phrasal verb above separable or inseparable?
What happens when you use a pronoun instead of a noun?
  

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I thought 'give up' is a separable phrasal verb in that context. If we use a pronoun instead of a noun the pronoun goes between 'gave' and 'up'. ' Am I right so far?

— BAYRAM ERDEM

  • I thought 'give up' is a separable phrasal verb in that context.
  • If we use a pronoun instead of a noun the pronoun goes between 'gave' and 'up'.
  • ' Am I right so far?
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I thought 'give up' is a separable phrasal verb in that context. If we use a pronoun instead of a noun the pronoun goes between 'gave' and 'up'. So it becomes 'He gave it up.' Am I right so far?
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BAYRAM ERDEMSo it becomes 'He gave it up.' Am I right so far?
That's fine. In fact, it's the only natural way of saying that.
"He gave up it" would not be natural.
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BAYRAM ERDEMIs the phrasal verb above separable or inseparable?
Separable. Almost all of them are.

gave it up, threw it out, smoothed it out, brushed them off, put it on, took it off, tore them up, pushed it away, ...

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