ian@wcwvax.UUCP (Ian Kemmish) (02/28/86)
> [Lots of examples using the "verb" <look up>]
I used to have a teacher who insisted that English verbs like
"look up", "put on" and so on were closely related to
"separable verbs" in German, e.g. "anziehen" is the infinitive,
but you say "er zieht . . . an" (sorry, my German's VERY rusty,
that's all you're going to get!). He maintained the only real
difference was that we'd learned to say "to look up" rather than
"to uplook". Of course, this may all have been a ruse to help us
understand the German verbs :-)