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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
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Could you confirm whether the following sentence is okay and both of (A) and (B) are possible? Thank you.
Suddenly it starting to rain heavily, he took [ (A) up his umbrella / his umbrella up ] and put it up.
Suddenly it starting to rain heavily, he took [ (A) up his umbrella / his umbrella up ] and put it up.
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I'm not sure exactly what action you are describing by "took up". Normally you can simply say: Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he put up his umbrella . If his umbrella was in something it could be taken out of, most likely a bag, then you can say: Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he took out his umbrella and put it up.
- I'm not sure exactly what action you are describing by "took up".
- Normally you can simply say: Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he put up his umbrella .
- If his umbrella was in something it could be taken out of, most likely a bag, then you can say: Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he took out his umbrella and put it up.
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I'm not sure exactly what action you are describing by "took up". Normally you can simply say:
Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he put up his umbrella.
If his umbrella was in something it could be taken out of, most likely a bag, then you can say:
Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he took out hi
Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he put up his umbrella.
If his umbrella was in something it could be taken out of, most likely a bag, then you can say:
Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he took out hi
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Sorry, that's my mistakes. 'up' should have been 'out' in (A) and (B). Here is my question again. Is "Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he took his umbrella out and put it up" also possible?
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take up is a somewhat old-fashioned way of saying pick up.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20up
A is the better of the two choices, because it is not good to
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20up
A is the better of the two choices, because it is not good to
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lucas21cSorry, that's my mistakes. 'up' should have been 'out' in (A) and (B). Here is my question again. Is "Suddenly it started to rain heavily, so he took his umbrella out and put it up" also possible?Yes.
In writing, where one has time to thinking about such things, I prefer "took out his umbrella".
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Then, in conversation, "took his umbrella out" is commonly preferred?
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lucas21cThen, in conversation, "took his umbrella out" is commonly preferred?No, not necessarily preferred. I'm just saying that I wouldn't be so fussy about it in conversation.
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