Take Apart: (2)

Grammar Tense Structure:

• Present Tense: take / takes apart
• Past Tense: took apart
• Past Participle: taken apart
• Present Participle: taking apart

1: If you take something apart, you dismantle it or disassemble it

separable & non-separable phrasal verb

• We had to take the machine apart to find out what wasn’t working correctly
• We had to take apart that machine to find the cause of the problem.
  
• He is so inquisitive, he’s always taking things apart to see how they work!

2: If you take someone apart, you criticise them or verbally attack them

separable & non-separable phrasal verb

• She wasn’t looking forward to being taken apart for the huge mistake
• I am going to be so taken apart if I can not fix this by the end of the day
• They’ll really take me apart when they find out what happened!