![]() ![]() “A small bird came toward the skiff from the north. “The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords … The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks … Example #5: The Old Man and the Sea (by Earnest Hemingway) Both verbs makes the combination complete. In this passage, the verb is “make,” while “up” is used as a particle but not as a preposition. ![]() “Major had never played basketball or any other game before, but his great, bobbing height and rapturous enthusiasm helped make up for his innate clumsiness and lack of experience.” Salinger has used three phrasal verbs here: “standing up,” “kicked out,” and “hung up.” All of them are separable and make complete semantic units by themselves. I wasn’t supposed to come … She hung up my coat in the hall closet.” “The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game … I forgot to tell you about that.
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