Timeline for Word order for a split verb [duplicate]
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| Dec 20, 2018 at 10:59 | history | closed |
Peter Shor Arm the good guys in America Hellion jimm101 Rory Alsop |
Duplicate of Is there any rule about splitting phrasal verbs? | |
| Dec 16, 2018 at 16:25 | history | edited | Stewart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2018 at 15:12 | answer | added | A Lambent Eye | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 9:25 | comment | added | BillJ | The logic is that it simply sounds awful, as you discovered in the ungrammatical "I will pick up you at 11am". | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 9:40 | comment | added | Stewart | @BillJ Is there a logic to that rule, or is it an arbitrary rule? (Also, I realised I now have to look up unstressed vs stressed pronoun) | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 8:42 | comment | added | BillJ | "Pick up" is not a verb: "pick" is the verb and "up" is a preposition. "Up" serves as a 'particle', a complement that can come between the verb and its direct object. But the order 'particle+object' is inadmissible if the object is an unstressed personal pronoun, and it's this constraint that makes your last example *"I will pick up you" ungrammatical. | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 8:36 | comment | added | Kris | It's called splitting of phrasal verbs. See: "Is there any rule about splitting phrasal verbs?" english.stackexchange.com/q/77472/14666 | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 8:20 | history | asked | Stewart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |