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CJ_B Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Give up/ Give it up
Which is more appropriate for this situation:
You've tried to do something and failed due to an error outside of your control.
1/. "Ok, I give it up!"
2/. "Ok, I give up!"
I thought it was 2 - but I am being brow beaten into thinking otherwise - which is more appropriate.
You've tried to do something and failed due to an error outside of your control.
1/. "Ok, I give it up!"
2/. "Ok, I give up!"
I thought it was 2 - but I am being brow beaten into thinking otherwise - which is more appropriate.
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Hi CJB, welcome to the forum. I don't know who is browbeating you but they are wrong. The idiom is 'give up' - definitely without the 'it'.
- Hi CJB, welcome to the forum.
- I don't know who is browbeating you but they are wrong.
- The idiom is 'give up' - definitely without the 'it'.
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Hi CJB, welcome to the forum.
I don't know who is browbeating you but they are wrong. The idiom is 'give up' - definitely without the 'it'.
I don't know who is browbeating you but they are wrong. The idiom is 'give up' - definitely without the 'it'.
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nona the britI don't know who is browbeating you but they are wrong. The idiom is 'give up' - definitely without the 'it'.I've seen a phrase in an english book about phrasal verbs and it said:
No chocolate for me, thanks. I've given it up.
Why has the author used "it"?
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MikaelNo chocolate for me, thanks. I've given it up.it = chocolate.
to give up something edible is to eat it no longer.
If it's plural, you use them, of course.
I don't eat cheese sandwiches anymore. I've given them up.
to give up (no object) is to admit defeat, not to try anymore.
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