PHRASAL VERBS: 5 ways to use “take off” in English

I think video is very effective to study phrasal verbs. Just I knew one of the these meanings before the video.However, I know other meanings,thanks for the video.

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nguyen van long

Hi Alex,

thank you for the nice lesson.

I would like to ask you a question about the sentence :

Take the picture off the wall.

Which word is here the object of the verb :
THE PICTURE or THE WALL ?

I am not sure, but could it be possible, that this sentence is just with the normal verb TAKE and a normal preposition OFF and not the phrasal verb TAKE OFF ? Or could we say : Take off the picture the wall ?

Thank you,

Adriana

adrijana

Hi Adriana,
I’m not Alex but I believe I can help you. However I can be wrong. English is not my mother language.
1.The object is “The picture”
Take off(what?) -> the picture
2.You missed the word “from”
We can say “Take off the picture from the wall” unless I’m mistaken.
Btw. Take off the picture the wall? It doesn’t sound normal. I think I’ve never heard it before. In any video,movie,page etc.
But I do like people who ask questions.

All the best!

Ps. If I’m wrong somebody correct me.

marcin95

Hi Marcin,

thank you for your answer.

But, you are writing, that we can say :

Take off the picture from the wall.

Than there is a big question, as the phrasal verb TAKE OFF is separable, if we can logically say this sentence ?

Take the picture off from the wall.

adrijana

I think
“Take the picture from the wall”
is correct. But more common would be to use word “off” instead of “from”.
Both are correct.

marcin95

I guess, Marcin, you haven´t read my question above properly. :-)

I have been asking, in case, that there is the phrasal verb TAKE STH OFF, whether the following expression would be OK :

TAKE THE PICTURE OFF (the phrasal verb with its object) FROM THE WALL.

adrijana

I don’t want to be misleading.
It’ll be better if we wait for Alex answer or at least sb who is well versed with phrasal verbs.

marcin95

Hi Marcin,

I have just additionally looked the simple verb TAKE up in the dictionary, and there is this meanning under entry 3 :

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/take

It looks like that the verb Take something off something is just a normal verb TAKE with the preposition OFF.

adrijana

I looked into this and the sentence “TAKE THE PICTURE OFF FROM THE WALL” is incorrect. There can be only one preposition unless I’m mistaken.
I found this sentence:
“Oops – I forgot to take the price label off your present”
We can rewrite it as:
“Oops – I forgot to remove the price label from your present”

marcin95

I think, in the expression :

TAKE THE PICTURE OFF FROM THE WALL is OFF a particle of the phrasal verb and FROM is a preposition.

And even Alex has said or written more expression that has have the same structure :

She took OFF AFTER dinner.
My flight takes OFF IN one hour.
He took a week OFF FROM the work.

adrijana

Look,
in each of your examples “take off” is intransitive when in this sentence “Take the picture…..” is transitive.
Here is the rule that should you to understand.
When take off is transitive it means to remove something (that something is an object). When take off doesn’t have an object after it, it is intransitive and can mean to leave the ground.

I hope now, you got it ;)

marcin95