Noting droopage that will soon turn to trippage, I tell my son: pull up your sock. His response?
“I’m pulling up it.”
Leave it to DB to point out the inconsistencies in English sentence structure. He made a direct substitution of pronoun (“it”) for noun (“my sock”), and he avoided ending a sentence with a preposition, and yet he is incorrect.
Poor kid. He has assimilated the rules but hasn’t catched on to all the exceptions.