English made easy

[desert_fox 32]

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this......How do non-natives ever learn all the nuances of English???

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is UP

It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing:

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP .

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth.UP

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it, for now my time is UP, so ....

Time to shut UP.....!

Oh...one more thing:!

What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?

U P

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this......How do non-natives ever learn all the nuances of English???

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is UP

It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing:

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP .

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth.UP

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it, for now my time is UP, so ....

Time to shut UP.....!

Oh...one more thing:!

What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?

U P

thats intense...my poor fiance trying to learn english

[~*Maria*~ 1]

lol

[Dakine 26]

Up isn't the only word like that. There's thousands of "slang" words.

Try teaching a questioning 9 year old just recently from the Philippines who learned "proper" English there!

If you open UP any book you have to be UP for the teaching task as in one book lots pop UP!

[Ta Ta 1]

[Ban Hammer 14,396]

you left out "knocked up"

[desert_fox 32]

you left out "knocked up"

man charles...you are just a f**k UP

[mawilson 2,133]

"Up" is not that difficult to explain to a non-native speaker.

In most of your examples, it simply indicates the intensity or completion of an action,

such as "drink up now" or "tear up the cheque".

[almaty 19]

you left out "knocked up"

man charles...you are just a f**k UP

you tell him senor fox

[radsr2002 0]

you left out "knocked up"

Guys can't get knocked up.....ROFLMAO!!!

and I had to page UP to make this reply

hehe

[desert_fox 32]

"Up" is not that difficult to explain to a non-native speaker.

In most of your examples, it simply indicates the intensity or completion of an action,

such as "drink up now" or "tear up the cheque".

good explanation!!! I was wondering how would I explain this to my wife who is still learning English.

[Ban Hammer 14,396]

you left out "knocked up"

man charles...you are just a f**k UP

i'm taking the almaty online course

[Jasman0717 9]

What up

[vanee 13]

"Up" is not that difficult to explain to a non-native speaker.

In most of your examples, it simply indicates the intensity or completion of an action,

such as "drink up now" or "tear up the cheque".

Right. Another way to explain it is "up"= "completely" or close to it.

Here's a fun one. You can chop a tree down and then chop it up.