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Snappy Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Picked up and took it home.

I understand that native speakers of English would not say, "I picked up it."

I think "I picked it up and took it home" is correct.

Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
"I picked up and took it home."
  

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" I think "I picked it up and took it home" is correct. Is the following sentence grammatically correct? " The last sentence isn't correct, because you need the 'it'.

— Philip

  • " I think "I picked it up and took it home" is correct.
  • Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
  • " The last sentence isn't correct, because you need the 'it'.
  • However, there is an expression in some areas (sounds uneducated to most) to use 'pick up' to mean 'get up, pick oneself up'.
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SnappyI understand that native speakers of English would not say, "I picked up it."

I think "I picked it up and took it home" is correct.

Is the following sentence grammatically correct?

"I picked up and took it home."

The last sentence isn't correct, because you need the 'it'. However, there is an expression in some areas (sounds u
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Of course, your sentence is grammatically correct.

Who tells you that the people in English speaking countries are not using the phrasal verb "to pick up" in their speech? However, my native language is not the English language I've heard English and American speech and read a lot of sentences which include thephrasa verb " to pick up"

Besides, there are many meanings with the
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There are idiomatic variations for phrasal verbs such as this one. We use it in two different patterns:
1) subject, verb, object, preposition;
2) subject, verb, preposition, object

Here are some examples:
1) to get something along the way when travelling to a destination
  • I picked up some milk on the way home
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