The phrase 'tear it off' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an imperative phrase used to give instructions to someone to literally tear an object off something else. For example: "Tear off the piece of paper and throw it away."
The WPBSA tried to make him wear a tie; he would tear it off, and sit on the sidelines at matches with a pint and a cigarette, seething.
"We probably threw it out the window," he said in the interview Tuesday, "but we didn't tear it off the wall".
He had a Afro, was wire thin, and didn't so much dunk the ball as attack the rim like some kind of velociraptor who wanted to tear it off and take it elsewhere to eat.
Ms. Ripley here wears her lush beauty as if she would like to tear it off, and there's a plaintive air of apology behind Amy's harshness with the patient Paul (sweetly embodied by Matt Bogart).
I'm going to tear it off and pluck out the bed of dandelions".… For a minute, she looks as if she is going to cry, but she quickly brightens up, tells the children again that she is Wonder Woman, tells them that she and another classmate once composed a piece of music called "A Cantata on BeechNut Peppermint Gum," and starts talking quickly.
Some of the trees they like to browse on are acacia trees which has evolved these really sharp spines in order to try and stop animals eating their foliage, so the giraffe's long tongue can reach in between those spines and grip the leaf and tear it off".
She tore it off and immediately began checking the rest.
He celebrated his victory by ripping open his shirt, tearing it off and hurling it into the crowd.
And, let me tell you, once that mask was on no power on earth could have torn it off me.
I tried every approach suggested online, then channeled my inner Neanderthal and tore it off with whatever tools were within reach.
So for me, pushing solely for forgiveness (reconciliation) is not unlike applying a bandaid to a deep cut and ripping it off, reapplying a new one and tearing it off again.
