picked up and took it home

[Snappy]

I understand that native speakers of English would not say, "I picked up it."


I think "I picked it up and took it home" is correct.
Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
"I picked up and took it home."

[svartnik]

I understand that native speakers of english would not say, "I picked up it."


I think "I picked it up and took it home" is correct.
Is the following sentence gramatically correct?
"I picked up what? and took it home."

pick up is a monotransitive separable optional phrasal verb, which means:

pick up sg (sg = not pronoun)
pick sg up
pick it up
pick up it

When the object of the pv is a pronoun, always split the pv. Not a pronoun, then the separation is optional.

I picked up !! and took it home. you cannot drop the object of the phrasal verb
I picked it up and took it home.
I picked it up and took !! home.