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Cogar Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

brush up (on)

0Hello all,02br
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0 I believe some people leave out 01i 00on02i 00, but I don't. 02br 02br 00 CJ0-

— CalifJim

  • 0 I believe some people leave out 01i 00on02i 00, but I don't.
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0 I believe some people leave out 01i00on02i00, but I don't. I think of 01i00brush up on02i00 as a fixed set of words.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10I believe some people leave out 11i10on12i10, but I don't. I think of 11i10brush up on12i10 as a fixed set of words.12br
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10Thank you CalifJim. 02br
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0Hi,02br
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00I usually say 'brush up'.02br
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00So did Cole Porter in this song from the musical 'Kiss me Kate'. It's bit old, but still worth quoting. Here's one of the verses. 02br
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01font01b00Brush up your Shakespeare,02b02br
00Start quoting him now.02br
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0 Hee, hee. Very clever. Yet, I'd call this a case of "Yes, but ...".02br
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00 It seems to me that lyricists and tunesmiths, working together, are more than willing to bend the usual patterns of the language in order to get the right number of syllables to go with the right number of notes in the melody.02br
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00 (All the same, I'm not saying
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