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Emma0714 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Pick up

hi teachers

My colleague made a joke about his truck in his email:

it's not a pickup truck you need, but rather a truck that picks up!!


can someone please explain to me what's the second " pick up" means here?


many thanks


emma

  

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If you don't use conventional capitalization and punctuation, nobody will like you, and your dog will run away. emma0714 can someone please explain to me what's the second " pick up" means here? The dictionaries don't seem to have this one.

  • If you don't use conventional capitalization and punctuation, nobody will like you, and your dog will run away.
  • emma0714 can someone please explain to me what's the second " pick up" means here?
  • The dictionaries don't seem to have this one.
  • It is an intransitive phrasal verb that means to accelerate impressively.
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If you don't use conventional capitalization and punctuation, nobody will like you, and your dog will run away.

emma0714can someone please explain to me what's the second " pick up" means here?

The dictionaries don't seem to have this one. It is an intransitive phrasal verb that means to accelerate impressively.

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