particle separation

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noun

transformational grammar a rule that moves the particle of a phrasal verb, thus deriving a sentence like He looked the answer up from a structure that also underlies He looked up the answer

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Words nearby particle separation

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How to use particle separation in a sentence

He advocates a secular regime with a total separation of religion form the government.
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Enter Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which threatened to sue.
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But the picture is torn in half by the geographic separation of the friezes.
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Even in the painful separation of child and parent, there was humour.
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But the second thing is the way this city has changed in recent years, the intensification of the separation.
Mass Murder in the Holy City|Michael Tomasky|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Wharton left Vienna, the morning after his separation from Louis in the garden of the chateau.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Punch went out and wept bitterly with Judy, into whose fair head he had driven some ideas of the meaning of separation.
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This, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd