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GainRain Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Come Up

"A job opening came up."
"More school funding came up."

If the first sentence means a job opening became available, could the second mean that more funding became available?
  

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I would not use it that way. In my experience, the expression is used when "these things" routinely come up from time to time. " In the case of school funding, no more was available, and now some suddenly is.

— Avangi

  • I would not use it that way.
  • In my experience, the expression is used when "these things" routinely come up from time to time.
  • " In the case of school funding, no more was available, and now some suddenly is.
  • But it doesn't routinely pop up, as jobs do.
  • ) Some special context might allow "More school funding came up," but it would probably involve sarcasm.
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I would not use it that way.

In my experience, the expression is used when "these things" routinely come up from time to time.
That is, we would not necessarily be inclined to question the conditions leading to the "coming up."

In the case of school funding, no more was available, and now some suddenly is.
But it doesn't routinely pop up, as jobs do.

It mi
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So, only these are acceptable:

"Emergency medical supplies came up to relieve the crisis."
"Stop-gap funding came up to keep schools running."
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GainRainSo, only these are acceptable:
I wouldn't be that restrictive.

Why didn't you come to my party? (reply) Something came up.
It could mean simply that the timing of the conflict was unexpected.

John came up with the money. It's a little easier when there's an agent.

The idea is that the event was no
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