A-ha! Students of English: how good is YOUR knowledge of the grammar of phrasal verbs?

6 years ago

You must (unless you've been living on Mars for the last 3 decades) have heard the song "Take On Me" by A-ha. (For those Martians among you, firstly, Welcome to Earth, we mean you NO harm - DON'T be afraid of the Big Orange Man with his Big Orange Hair and his incoherent diction; secondly, check out this good sh...tuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914).

Ok, so, what is Morten Harket's grammatical error? What is it that YOU know about phrasal verbs that poor Morten hadn't yet (30-odd years ago, anyway) learnt?