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Pieter Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Make up your mind or...

Make your mind up. - which is correct ?
  

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I suspect either would be correct. It's hard to tell sometimes with weird idioms like this, even for a native speaker like me. Somehow the first one seems less awkward to my ear, though.

  • I suspect either would be correct.
  • It's hard to tell sometimes with weird idioms like this, even for a native speaker like me.
  • Somehow the first one seems less awkward to my ear, though.
  • What does everyone else think?
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I suspect either would be correct. It's hard to tell sometimes with weird idioms like this, even for a native speaker like me. Somehow the first one seems less awkward to my ear, though. What does everyone else think?
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what? You didn't give a choice. Maybe you wanted to say you should make your mind up.
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The choice was between the subject heading and the content of the post. "Make up or mind" or "make your mind up."
But yeah, that confused me too for a minute or so.
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Have you made up your mind, then?
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No. I am still vascillating.
(Maybe I should quit with the vascillating and go to bed, since it's nearly five in the morning. Why do I always do this??? I suck.)
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Both can be used without any problem......though I'm still making my mind up about it!
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I can't make my mind up. Why is it that I can't make up my mind wether to use "make up my mind" or "make my mind up," which is really making my mind to go up in a state of confusion.
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Oh nooo! You begin to sound like me. Any help needed?
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in my mind's eye (or perhaps my mind's ear rather), i would make the following distinction: as an expression, i would say "you need to make up your mind"... as an imperative, i would also use the same. however, if the expression is followed by an infinitive, the other sounds better to me: e.g. he made his mind up TO GO to the party after all. perhaps the debate on this topic greatly depends on
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and I can't make out what you are saying.

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