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[Matthew Wai]

I cannot find 'put around' in dictionaries, but I think people would understand 'put commas around a non-restrictive clause' and 'put commas around what is not essential'.

 

[ChinaDan]

I cannot find 'put around' in dictionaries, but I think people would understand 'put commas around a non-restrictive clause' and 'put commas around what is not essential'.

I can't think of any example where the form would not be "put <something> around...".

 

[ChinaDan]

Thanks so much for your help!

But some for "take out"(take out the dishes from the box), "send out " (send out the food to this room) I can't find phrasal verb meaning explanation in dictionaries.

But if I can say " take out what you put in the box" "send out what you bought"?

Because some phrases like "set free the bird" , I didn't find a sentence like "set free what you caught"

Thanks so much!

Keep in mind that all languages in use are constantly evolving. Google's search engine became so universally popular, that people stopped saying, "search for it with Google", and started saying simply, "google it". We created a new verb.

"Get food to take out of the store and eat it at home" became "get take out". Marketing companies made "nite" instead of "night" very popular.

In many of these cases, the common usage is grammatically incorrect. And that should tell you something important. It's this; grammar, linguistics, all of those disciplines are artificial. Language is real. Even descriptive linguistics, which studies how language is actually used, is simply an artificial representation of a real phenomenon - language.

And I can almost hear the Linguists and Grammarians drawing their collective breath to assault that statement. ;-)

Just keep in mind that what is common but ungrammatical today, might be in the dictionary or style books tomorrow. If it is common usage, you are probably safe.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I can't think of any example where the form would not be "put <something> around...".

After searching for hours, I found the following example at https://tw.voicetube.com/definition/put around
'I've bought a seal to put around the edge of the bath', where the patient is before the phrasal verb.

(I hope it is acceptable to use 'patient' according to this post.)

 

[MOYEEA LEE]

Very few members will have the slightest idea what it means.

Thanks so much!

But we can't say" set free what they caught yesterday"

we can say" take out what you put into the box" right?

Thanks so much!

 

[Matthew Wai]

But we can't say" set free what they caught yesterday"

I think we can.