There are very many multi-word verbs (sometimes called phrasal
verbs) in English and it’s very difficult to learn them all. It
can sometimes be quite easy to guess the meaning (He picked up
the pencil) but other multi-word verbs are less easy to guess (I
picked up Italian quite easily when I lived there) and you
should look them up in a good dictionary. When you record new
multi-word verbs in your notebook it can be helpful to record
what type they are. Multi-word verbs are made up of a verb and a
particle or, sometimes, two particles. - He cut the tree down. -
He cut down the tree. With separable verbs the verb and particle
can be apart or together – the meaning doesn’t change. Look at
another example: - Can you turn the radio down please? - Can you
turn down the radio please? However, when we use a pronoun –
usually ‘it’ in place of the subject – it must come between the
verb and the particle in separable multi-word verbs. - Can you
turn it down please? Can you turn down it please?is NOT
possible. - Who loo