You can see remnants of separable verbs in English: "I passed the man in the red hat by." pass-by "I threw all of my old, useless papers out." throw-out In

You can see remnants of separable verbs in English: "I passed the man in the red hat by." pass-by "I threw all of my old, useless papers out." throw-out In the case of pass-by, we still have the verb bypass, but its meaning has drifted slightly from pass-by.