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This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is UP. It is listed in the dictionary as an adv. a pre. and adj. a noun or as a verb.
It is easy to understand UP as 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, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers, and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car. At other times this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, buy UP tickets, work UP appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: the 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 things. To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, the word must be looked UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try buidling UP a list of the many ways of UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP you may wind UP 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 soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP.
One could go on and on but I'll wrap it UP for now...my time is UP.
Oh....just one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night? "UP"
It is easy to understand UP as 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, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers, and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car. At other times this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, buy UP tickets, work UP appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: the 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 things. To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, the word must be looked UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try buidling UP a list of the many ways of UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP you may wind UP 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 soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP.
One could go on and on but I'll wrap it UP for now...my time is UP.
Oh....just one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night? "UP"
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