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Question 1

The airport shuttle collected our group at six. Which sentence places the pronoun correctly?

  1. The shuttle picked up us at six.
  2. The shuttle picked at six us up.
  3. The shuttle picked us up at six.Correct answer
  4. The shuttle picked us at six up.

Explanation

A pronoun object goes between the verb and particle in a separable phrasal verb, so the sentence with us between picked and up is grammatical. Putting us after up treats the pronoun like a noun object and is not standard placement.

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