> almost any verb can be combined with any preposition to form a phrasal verb with a meaning that needs to be memorized (put up, put down, put out (!), etc.) I

> almost any verb can be combined with any preposition to form a phrasal verb with a meaning that needs to be memorized (put up, put down, put out (!), etc.) I knew someone who came to the US from Latvia. His observation was that in English, first you cut the tree down, then you cut the tree up.