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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Word Arrangement

In a sentence, should I arrange it like "Throw the ball back" or "Throw back the ball"? I am confused about whether or not one of them is bad grammar.
  

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They are both fine. That is a case of a separable phrasal verb . edu/owl/resource/630/03/

  • They are both fine.
  • That is a case of a separable phrasal verb .
  • edu/owl/resource/630/03/
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They are both fine. That is a case of a separable phrasal verb. Some are separable and others are not:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/630/02/
https://owl.english.purdue

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