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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

"To pick up"

0Is it correct to write: "Bryan is going 01u01b00to pick up Paul02b02u00 at the airport tonight." (?)02br
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0Hi, Optilang!02br
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00Thanks for your reply.02br
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0 Hi Milla,02br
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00You could also say 01i00"Bryan is going 01u01b00to pick Paul up 02b02u00at the airport tonight"02i00 because "01i00pick up02i00" is a separable phrasal verb; this means that you can put the object either before or after "up".02br
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0Hello, Tanit!02br
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00Glad to get so good explanation. Thank you very much.02br
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00Best wishes,02br
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0Hi again Tanit,02br
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00By the way and if the object were: 01b01u00her cousin Beth02u02b00, e.g.? 02br
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00Thanks once more,02br
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00I'd say "01i00pick up her cousin Beth02i00" .. If I put too many things between pick and up, I'd surely forget what I was talking about. 05002br
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00Seriously, I think this way sounds better, but I'm not sure the other way would be incorrect. Maybe somebody has a definite answer here. 051010id411id1
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0........to pick up her cousin Beth from the airport.02br
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00....... to pick her cousin Beth up from the airport.02br
00Both sound ok to me 0-
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0O.K. Thank you very much for the attention.02br
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0Hello Optilang,02br
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00Thanks again for your answers. By the way is it wrong if I write/say: Bob will pick up his cousin Beth (or Bob will pick his cousin Beth up) 01u01b00at 02b02u00the airport (instead of writing/saying: 01b00from02b00 the airport?)02br
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00Thank you once more,02br
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