Take off your shoes / Take your shoes off

I’ll throwit away. Take them off.

We can’t put an adverb between the verb and particle or between the particle and object:

* I paid the loan back early. ( not: I paid early back the loan. / I paid back early the loan. )

We can’t put a relative pronoun immediately before or after the particle:

* That’s the room which I did up. ( not: That’s the room which up I did. / That’s the room up which I did. )

3) These phrasal verbs take an object, but we cannot separate the verb from the particle. These phrasal verbs are

called prepositional verbs ( verb + preposition)- look into, look for, look at.

Sue takes after her mother. Looking after a baby is hard work.

We put the object ( noun / pronoun) after the preposition and not between the verb and preposition ( compare

with the second type):

* We didn’t fall for it / his story. ( not: We didn’t fall his story for. / We didn’t fall it for. )

4)These phrasal verbs have three parts: a verb + particle + preposition . We cannot separate the verb from the

other parts. These verbs can be made passive:

* All her employees looked up to her. (active)

* She was looked up to by all her employees. ( passive)

I’m looking forward to the weekend.

You go now and I’ll catch up with you later.

§ Phrasal verbs form tenses, and are used in questions and negatives and in the passive voice, in the same way as other verbs:

* Will you be putting the party off? * The party has been put off until next month.

§ We never separate the verb and the particle in the passive form:

* That story was made up by a resentful employee.

§ We can sometimes form nouns from multi-part verbs:

* The car broke down five kilometers from home. (multi-part verb)

* The breakdown happened five kilometers from home. (noun)