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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
take up
6. to continue something after somebody else has stopped; to continue to discuss something that was mentioned earlier I'd like to take up the point you raised earlier.
E.g., Paula took up the story.
Q) The definition for "take up" and its example sentence are shown the above. I was wondering if "take up" is in a fixed order, which does not allow switch the position like the one below.
- Paula took the story up.
Does it have different meaning from the original example sentence?
E.g., Paula took up the story.
Q) The definition for "take up" and its example sentence are shown the above. I was wondering if "take up" is in a fixed order, which does not allow switch the position like the one below.
- Paula took the story up.
Does it have different meaning from the original example sentence?
Top answer
" The second sentence, with took and up split, is acceptable and means the same thing as the first sentence. However, it is usually preferable to leave took and up together.
- " The second sentence, with took and up split, is acceptable and means the same thing as the first sentence.
- However, it is usually preferable to leave took and up together.
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"Paula took up the story from where I left off." and "Paula took the story up from where I left off." The second sentence, with took and up split, is acceptable and means the same thing as the first sentence. However, it is usually preferable to leave took and up together.
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