60. How To Understand Phrasal Verbs
Confident Business English
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Transitive and No Object
If something doesn't need an object to work, it is intransitive. Inseparable and no object are phrasal verbs or verb-proposals that have to be together. If we look at a phrasal verb like pick up, for example, as we did before, such as Recoher, recoher,recoher, is transitive. We can't say, I'm gonna pick up, well, pick up what? What are you gonna pick up? That's not complete for an English speaker. So it needs an object. Equally, if I say, I'm gonna look after, what? You're gonna look after
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