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To: re_nortex

Because “turn” and “off” have to be together. “Turn your computer off” is incorrect. “Turn off your computer” is correct. Learn English.


11 posted on 01/12/2013 3:52:38 PM PST by Cruising Speed
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To: Cruising Speed

OK then, so is it “off to the races!” or “to the races off!”?


23 posted on 01/12/2013 4:17:08 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Cruising Speed
Because “turn” and “off” have to be together. “Turn your computer off” is incorrect. “Turn off your computer” is correct. Learn English.

Exactly so. Another pet peeve of mine:

To boldly go
When it should be:
To go boldly

57 posted on 01/12/2013 5:40:47 PM PST by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Cruising Speed

“Because “turn” and “off” have to be together. “Turn your computer off” is incorrect. “Turn off your computer” is correct. Learn English.”

No, they don’t. Either is acceptable. English has hugely flexible word order, and turn off is not, as someone seemed to think, an infinitive. It is a phrasal verb that with a non-pronoun object can be split or not split. With a pronoun object, it must be split i.e. turn it off, not turn off it.


81 posted on 01/12/2013 7:37:43 PM PST by MikeGranby
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To: Cruising Speed
Because “turn” and “off” have to be together. “Turn your computer off” is incorrect.

Can I still do it tho?

85 posted on 01/13/2013 7:38:21 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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