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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
put up with
Would you please answer my question about this sentence?
"She puts up with alot with her boyfriend. He drinks, he smokes too much and he's always hitting on other girls."
I have never heard of "alot". Does it have a specific meaning?
if "alot" were "a lot", I would say "She puts upwith a lot..."
And if I'm not right, then could you explain why "with"? "put up with" is not an idiom. It's consisted of phrasal verb "put up" plus preposition "with".
"She puts up with alot with her boyfriend. He drinks, he smokes too much and he's always hitting on other girls."
I have never heard of "alot". Does it have a specific meaning?
if "alot" were "a lot", I would say "She puts up
And if I'm not right, then could you explain why "with"? "put up with" is not an idiom. It's consisted of phrasal verb "put up" plus preposition "with".
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I have never heard of "alot". -- No. It is a typo; it should be 2 words.
- I have never heard of "alot".
- -- No.
- It is a typo; it should be 2 words.
- then could you explain why "with"?
- "put up with" is not an idiom-- It is a phrasal verb.
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I have never heard of "alot". Does it have a specific meaning?-- No. It is a typo; it should be 2 words.
...then could you explain why "with"? "put up with" is not an idiom-- It is a phrasal verb.
It's consists of phrasal verb "put up" plus preposition "with".-- It is a 3-word phrasal-prepositional (my coinage, perhaps) verb
...then could you explain why "with"? "put up with" is not an idiom-- It is a phrasal verb.
It's consists of phrasal verb "put up" plus preposition "with".-- It is a 3-word phrasal-prepositional (my coinage, perhaps) verb
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