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put something away
store something after using it
To put something in its usual place or another suitable place after you have finished using it.
Hear it in real life
Where are the board games?
I put them away in the cupboard.
Please put your headphones away when you have finished using them.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Put away it after dinner.
Say: Put it away after dinner.
With a pronoun such as “it,” put the pronoun between “put” and “away.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
put something away; put it away
Your turn: say it out loud
Please put your headphones away when you have finished using them.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
put something away
store something after using it
“Please put your headphones away when you have finished using them.”
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