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Joseph A Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Making or making up a sentence

Hello everyone,

Can we use either " make" or "make up" with the word "sentence" as follows?

Eg. Try to order the words to make a sentence.

Eg. Try to order the words to make up a sentence.

Regards,

JA

  

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Usually, the phrase is 'to make a sentence.'

What I usually see, as the instruction for this exercise, is 'put the words in the correct order to make a sentence.'

Hope this helps.

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Joseph AEg. Try to reorder the words to make a sentence.

Eg. Try to order the words to make up a sentence.

That is not quite right. Make up = invent, create from your own brain.

If you are given some words to rearrange, you are just making a sentence out of those words.

If you are cr

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