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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #1 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:52 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

Hello, what's the wrong on this
1-Everyone's personality falls out of.
2-Emplyee may work it out...
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #2 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:19 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

Hello,

You mean: "What's wrong with this?"

Both sentences are wrong. With (1) you have used the wrong phrase, but I cannot work out what you are trying to say to help you to put it right.
With (2) it would be correct to say, "Employees may work it out." but I think that might not be what you mean to say. It isn't possible to tell from such a short sentence though.
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #3 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:24 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

When I read number one, the only prepositional object I could come up with to make that begin to make sense was "alignment."
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #4 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:26 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

I wonder if 'falls out of' is the definition of another single word which might make more sense (or at least shed some light on it).
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #5 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:32 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

Hi Sa_Ma,

You have created a puzzle. My suggestion is - fall out of favour. This means that someone/something is no longer popular. Any good?

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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #6 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:30 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

ok .. thank you very much ...but I will write whole sentence hope you get understand the wrong with this..
1-One pop psychologist has dveloped a system of four temperaments which uses a lion, beaver, otter, and golden retriever as examples of the four types, one of which they say eveyone's personality falls out of .
2-Personality typing is utilized by some schools and employers for the information that they believe provides them with clues as to how a prospective student or employee may work it out....
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #7 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:49 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

Ah! The penny drops! Instead of 'falls out of' you mean 'falls into'. Everybody's personality falls into one of these four categories.

In (2) to what does the pronoun 'it' refer?
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #8 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:25 am   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

h'mm...I think the pronoun refer to Personality typing ...is it right?
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Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs #9 (permalink) Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:15 pm   Inseparable and separable Pherasal verbs
 

I don't think so Sa_Ma. Personality typing is what is used by the employers to show them how an employee might do something - but what? We need the noun to which the pronoun relates.

For example, perhaps the 'it' refers to in general to the problems that employees might encounter (though I doubt it because 'problems' is plural and 'it' is singular). In which case, the noun could be 'problem(s)'.
Then, '...may work it out.' should be '... may work the problem(s) out.'

Was this an exercise where you were asked to find the error? If so, perhaps use of the pronoun is the error.
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