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KottCoos Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Rephrase needed

I can't translate a sentence into my native. So it would be great to have it rephrased for understanding what this "up" here means: I'll finish those reports on up tonight.

Btw, taken from the "Back to the future I" Emotion: wink
  

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mixed bad English: finish up is a phrasal verb and "on" should go with a day not "tonight" I will finish up tonight or I will finish on Tuesday is correct

— JohnBoz

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mixed bad English: finish up is a phrasal verb and "on" should go with a day not "tonight"
I will finish up tonight or I will finish on Tuesday is correct
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"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up" is an intensive there signifying completeness. We finish things up, clean things up, fill things up, etc. "On" is another intensifier. We come on down, we drive on over, and we climb on up, but "up" in this case is a normal adverb. McFly's "up" was an intensifier
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Wow sounds well explained. I agree it expresses thought sliding mid sentence, but can we conclude that this is incorrect grammatically?

It should be

finish up tonight

or

finish on a ___day.
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JohnBozWow sounds well explained. I agree it expresses thought sliding mid sentence, but can we conclude that this is incorrect grammatically? It should be finish up tonightor finish on a ___day.
I am of the opinion that grammar is a sick old man who likes to boss people around, and if we just ignore him and get on with it, all will be well. Grammar is an unim
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Actually now I'm thinking of James Brown.
Get upa
"Get on up, like a .......
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JohnBoz"Get on up, like a .......
That is a different case. "Get up" is a phrasal verb.
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