English Grammar Question?

[TheTravellers]

I have had that backfire on me as apparently sweet tea is "regular tea" nowadays. It drives me crazy to have to order "unsweet" tea. I really don't know how that became a thing.

*Flags down server* "Hi, this is sweet tea, I ordered regular tea", *stupid conversation ensues, but I eventually get tea, just tea*... And yeah, blame the South for that stupidity.

[Teo9969]

On the OP:

English heavily uses "phrasal verbs" typically comprised of a verb and an additional preposition that cause the term to take on a specific meaning. For instance, in the previous sentence if I said take up, take out, take down, the meaning of the sentence could change or even become non-sensical.

Because we lean so heavily on these in the language, it's easy to misuse them or add prepositions unnecessarily thinking it's part of how you communicate your thought.

A lot of phrasal verbs don't seem to make sense with the preposition that is used. Like, give up seems more like it should be give out or give down, but those must have alreqdy been taken

[Midtowner]

Unless it's some kind of formal writing, I don't think it really matters so long as it conveys meaning. If the meaning of the phrase isn't obvious from its context in the sentence, I'd avoid it.