A 2 letter word has a hundred completely different meanings.
So what is this stuff about English being easy? There is a two-letter
word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and
that is "UP"
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
list, but when we waken 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 of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the
dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, takes UP almost 1/4th the page
and definitions add UP to about thirty.
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 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 wets UP the earth. When it doesn't
rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP ,
for now my time is UP, so.............
I'll shut UP .....!
word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and
that is "UP"
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
list, but when we waken 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 of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the
dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, takes UP almost 1/4th the page
and definitions add UP to about thirty.
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 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 wets UP the earth. When it doesn't
rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP ,
for now my time is UP, so.............
I'll shut UP .....!
Oh yeahh!
-Bersambung- aka -To be continue-
