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tempestntoday at 8:59 AM1 replyview on HN

Either one works. And that's actually a way to help remember the general rule. If you can rephrase it split up like that (ie. 'set it up'), then that's the multi-word, verb form.

Edit: actually, either way works, except when using with a pronoun. So, you can 'set it up', but you can't 'set up it'.


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apricottoday at 2:54 PM

> So, you can 'set it up', but you can't 'set up it'.

You can, however, set up us the bomb.