New answers tagged phrasal-verbs
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give up is something usually used in quieting a important task.But give in is something we can use to express the same meaning with a task which is not really important.
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[This answer was written before the question was edited. The original version of the question had both sentences on a single line as if they were intended to be read one after the other, whereas the question format now shows them bulleted as two independent sentences. Most of what I've written below still applies, but, with the revised question format, ...
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Both of those examples appear grammatically correct. The common usage of the compound "to vote in" is more frequently and naturally used in the form "to vote ... in." That said, ending a sentence in a preposition is to be avoided, so one usually follows "to vote ... in" with what position or office the object is being elected to.
In the case of your first ...
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Supplementing pm_2's answer - and also relating to British English:
I would say it means "to find someone or something".
You can talk of tracking down a fault (in a machine), tracking down an error (in a computer program).
You can also talk of tracking down an object, e.g. "Can you track down an extension lead?" ('power block' in the USA, I think); "Can ...
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The three to send, to send off, and to send out are distinguished by their motion and direction (actually and metaphorically).
To send is simply the action of causing something to go somewhere.
To Send off is the action of causing something to go somewhere from where you are to somewhere else.
To Send out is the action of causing something to go away ...
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These are often called "phrasal verbs" or "particle verbs" in the linguistic literature. They're found throughout the history of English, e.g. Hi ðærrihte ut eodon "They immediately out went", from Ælfric's 10th-century Catholic Homilies. However, many of the modern phrasal verbs only appear later, during the Middle English period and beyond.
Since the ...
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There are relevant sections in 'Multi-Word Verbs in Early Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study' by Claudia Claridge,
précised at http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-698.html which contains:
Chapter 5 examines the history of these types of multi-word verbs from
Old English through to Modern English. ...Chapters 6 and 7 describe
the particular multi- ...
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