Timeline for Is the position of "everyone" in "time wears everyone down" correct?
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| Oct 27, 2018 at 21:54 | comment | added | Peter Shor | You can see that the Oxford Learner's Dictionary explicitly uses a double-sided arrow ⟷ to show that down can come on either side of the object. See their Guide to Symbols. The regular Oxford dictionary doesn't do this because it expects its users to know how phrasal verbs behave in English. | |
| Oct 27, 2018 at 16:41 | comment | added | Peter Shor | That's a definition. It doesn't actually specify the position of down, which behaves as it does in all phrasal verbs with movable particles. | |
| Oct 27, 2018 at 16:15 | comment | added | hbtpoprock | I use this for the reference en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wear | |
| Oct 27, 2018 at 16:03 | comment | added | Peter Shor | 2. is not actually incorrect. If the object is excessively long, we would put "wears down" first. But for short objects, down usually comes afterwards. For example, I can find on the web "... wears down the long time leader Canopy of Stars at the last." This sounds much better than "... wears the long time leader Canopy of Stars down at the last." | |
| Oct 27, 2018 at 15:51 | history | answered | hbtpoprock | CC BY-SA 4.0 |