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"Pick her up". Is "up" a part of the verb , an adverb, or what part of speech?
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"Pick up" is a phrasal verb. "Up" in this case is a particle in the phrasal verb.
It's the verb in the sentance.
no, when you say pick up, pick is the verb in that sentence. same as here.
"pick up" is the verb
(Jack L above uses "pick up" as an object, and then "pick" as the subject in his sentence!)
adverb!
preposition...telling where in relationship to her.
" pick " is verb. " up " is the adverb modifying the verb.
its an adverb
Pick her up is an imperative.
In an imperative (or command) the subject is (YOU) understood.
Therefore it is a command: YOU pick her up.
The verb is PICK
YOU(subj) PICK verb
What do you pick?
HER. HER is the object
UP is a preposition. It's a special case of a preposition because it is one of those idioms required with pick.
Like it's parallel:
drop off
pick up.
You could say that UP is used in and adjectival sense, since you could conceivably say that UP is where she is being picked. But that is something of a reach.
This construction would be taught in ESL classes as a particle of a phrasal verb.
The thing is that this is a unique phrase.
Pick her. <--means select her.
Pick her up. <--idom that means
1) give her a ride; or
2) lift her up off the ground; or
3) see if she'll go out with you on a date.
I believe that it is a preposition.
The word up is a preposition. Pick is the verb and her is the noun (actually, it's a pronoun here) The sentence probably started as
Pick her up on your way or something like this.
Prepositions are words like up, down, across, under, in, out, through, below, behind.
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