Comments on: Stephen King, and Google as a Statistical Tool http://www.cynicalstuff.com/stephen-king-and-google-as-a-statistical-tool A blog about casual games development, science, culture and cynical observations Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Karja http://www.cynicalstuff.com/stephen-king-and-google-as-a-statistical-tool/comment-page-1#comment-17 Karja Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:54:05 +0000 http://www.cynicalstuff.com/stephen-king-and-google-as-a-statistical-tool#comment-17 Ah, that's the pronoun case! Me, it, she, and so on - all are pronouns and those cannot be placed after the preposition/particle. The only valid versions are "picked it up" and "picked me up." (There's a small comment about it above, in the "only reference" link.) Nouns, noun phrases and proper nouns (like "Susannah") go under a different rule; in those cases it depends on whether or not the phrasal verb is separable. I know... I'm a sick, sick person for actualling enjoying English grammar! :) Ah, that’s the pronoun case! Me, it, she, and so on – all are pronouns and those cannot be placed after the preposition/particle. The only valid versions are “picked it up” and “picked me up.” (There’s a small comment about it above, in the “only reference” link.)

Nouns, noun phrases and proper nouns (like “Susannah”) go under a different rule; in those cases it depends on whether or not the phrasal verb is separable.

I know… I’m a sick, sick person for actualling enjoying English grammar! :)

]]> By: Anders Ivarsson http://www.cynicalstuff.com/stephen-king-and-google-as-a-statistical-tool/comment-page-1#comment-16 Anders Ivarsson Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:30:46 +0000 http://www.cynicalstuff.com/stephen-king-and-google-as-a-statistical-tool#comment-16 Perhaps I'm misinterpreting something here since I'm not too good at linguistics and certainly not in English, but it seems to me that really short words like "it" and "me" sounds really strange if one does _not_ put it in the middle. "picked it up" vs. "picked up it" (is that even correct?) "picked me up" vs. "picked up me" Am I missing something obvious? Perhaps I’m misinterpreting something here since I’m not too good at linguistics and certainly not in English, but it seems to me that really short words like “it” and “me” sounds really strange if one does _not_ put it in the middle.

“picked it up” vs. “picked up it” (is that even correct?)
“picked me up” vs. “picked up me”

Am I missing something obvious?

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