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Stephenlearner Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Install, attach, fasten, put up

Hi,

In everyday speech, what verbs or phrases do you use for this sentence?

Do these work?

We need to install this cupboard on this wall (with screws).
We need to fasten this cupboard to this wall (with screws).
We need to attach this cupboard to this wall (with screws).
We need to put up this cupboard to this wall (with screws).

Thank you very much.
  

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The first three are fine. "

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The first three are fine. "Put up" takes "on."
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Thank you, deadrat.

We need to install this cupboard on this wall (with screws).
We need to fasten this cupboard to this wall (with screws).
We need to attach this cupboard to this wall (with screws).
We need to put up this cupboard on this wall (with screws).

If they all work, what do they differ?
My assumption is like this:
Install stressess the purpose (y
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You originally asked about everyday English.
I usually say and hear 'put up'.
eg We need to put this cupboard up.
eg We need to put up this cupboard.

Clive
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I'm afraid I can't find any evidence for your semantic theory. "Make fast" means to make secure, but it doesn't necessarily apply to permanent affixture. You have run into one of the characteristics of the English language -- it often has many different ways to say the same thing. The reason lies in the successive invasions of the British Isles, first the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons, and fina
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