A cursory search [0] suggests that English allows not having such a wide gap between verb parts if it sounds odd, i.e. "He told off the ... woman." German doe

A cursory search [0] suggests that English allows not having such a wide gap between verb parts if it sounds odd, i.e. "He told off the ... woman." German doesn't (directly) give you that chance. [0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77472/is-there-any-rule-about-splitting-phrasal-verbs https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77472/is-there-a...