Complete the frustrated parent's chore list for their messy teenager. Drag the correct words into the blanks to fix the word order.
Your jacket is on the floor. Please pick it up right now!
The television is much too loud. Turn it down before the neighbors complain.
Your clean clothes are in the basket. Please put them away before dinner.
Your jacket is on the floor. Please pick it up right now!
With separable phrasal verbs (like "pick up"), object pronouns like "it" MUST go in the middle, between the verb and the particle. You cannot say "pick up it."
The television is much too loud. Turn it down before the neighbors complain.
The pronoun "it" replaces the television and must be placed between "turn" and "down".
Your clean clothes are in the basket. Please put them away before dinner.
"Clothes" is plural, so we use "them". Because "put away" is a separable phrasal verb, the pronoun must go in the middle.