Phrasal verbs: wrong particle
She often looks back in her childhood days.
She often looks back on her childhood days.
The particle changes the meaning
In a phrasal verb the particle is part of the meaning: look after, look up and look back on are different verbs.
- One unit
- Learn the verb and particle together. look after (care for) · look up (search) · give up (stop)
- Three parts
- Some take a particle and a preposition. look back on · look forward to · get on with
- Pronouns
- With separable verbs a pronoun goes in the middle. Turn it off. (not Turn off it)
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