{"id":3146,"date":"2019-05-21T23:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:30:13","slug":"whats-up-with-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/verbs\/whats-up-with-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Up With Up<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We thought we would lighten things\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0a bit this week. We hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is\u00a0up<\/em>. It’s easy to understand\u00a0up<\/em>, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake\u00a0up<\/em>?<\/p>\n

At a meeting, why does a topic come\u00a0up<\/em>?
\nWhy do we speak\u00a0up<\/em>, why are the officers\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0for election,
\nand why is it\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0to the secretary to write\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0a report?<\/p>\n

We call\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0our friends.<\/p>\n

We brighten\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0a room\u00a0and polish\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0the silver.
\nWe warm\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0the leftovers\u00a0and clean\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0the kitchen.
\nWe lock\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0the house,\u00a0and some guys fix\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0the old car.<\/p>\n

People stir\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0trouble,\u00a0line\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0for tickets,\u00a0work\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0an appetite,
\nand think\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0excuses.<\/p>\n

To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0is special.<\/p>\n

And this\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0is confusing:
\na drain must be opened\u00a0up\u00a0<\/em>because it is stopped\u00a0up<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We open\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0a store in the morning,\u00a0but we close it\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0at night.
\nWe seem to be pretty mixed\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0about\u00a0up<\/em>!<\/p>\n

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of\u00a0up<\/em>,\u00a0look it\u00a0up<\/em>.
\nIn a desk-sized dictionary,\u00a0it takes\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0almost\u00a0one-fourth\u00a0of the page
\nand can add\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0to about thirty definitions.<\/p>\n

If you are\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0to it,\u00a0you might try building\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0a list
\nof the many ways\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0is used.
\nIt will take\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0a lot of your time,\u00a0but if you don’t give\u00a0up<\/em>,
\nyou may wind\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0with a hundred or more.<\/p>\n

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding\u00a0up<\/em>.
\nWhen the sun comes out, we say it is clearing\u00a0up<\/em>.
\nWhen it rains, it wets\u00a0up<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0earth.
\nWhen\u00a0it doesn’t rain for\u00a0a\u00a0while, things dry\u00a0up<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it\u00a0up<\/em>,
\nfor now my time is\u00a0up<\/em>, so …\u00a0time to shut\u00a0up<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We thought we would lighten things\u00a0up\u00a0a bit this week. We hope you enjoy it. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is\u00a0up. It’s easy to understand\u00a0up, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,33,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives-adverbs","category-humor","category-prepositions","category-verbs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}