With transitive phrasal verbs and long noun phrases, the particle goes after the verb: 'tried out an extremely unusual and weird gear'.
Con verbos frasales transitivos y frases nominales largas, la partícula va después del verbo: 'tried out an extremely unusual and weird gear'.
| Task | Choose the sentence with the right word order |
|---|---|
| Answer | 3 |
| a | Billy tried an extremely unusual and weird out gear. |
| b | Billy tried an extremely unusual and weird gear out. |
| c | Billy tried out an extremely unusual and weird gear. |
| d | Tried Billy out an extremely unusual and weird gear. |
| comment | The majority of transitive phrasal verbs are separable. Therefore, we can place the particle before the noun objects or after them. But we should remember that we place the particle after the verb if the noun is a part of a long and complicated phrase: tried out an extremely unusual and weird gear (CORRECT) / tried an extremely unusual and weird gear out (WRONG) |
| topic | word order |
| level | 2 |
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