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What does "she up to" mean? Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:22 am  What does "she up to" mean?
 

Test No. errors/elem-7 "Prepositions", question 1

Say what you like but I simply don't understand what she's over to - it just doesn't make sense.

(a) but
(b) over to
(c) make sense

Test No. errors/elem-7 "Prepositions", answer 1

Say what you like but I simply don't understand what she's up to - it just doesn't make sense.

Correct entry: up to
The error was: (b) over to
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Up to Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:14 am  Up to
 

This means I don't know what she's doing in the sense that I believe she's doing something strange and it doesn't seem to be normal.
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What does "she up to" mean? Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:42 am  What does "she up to" mean?
 

Hi!

Maybe, on about is aslo a possible option, because I kind of know that to be on about = be talking about.
Do you find my reasoning plausible?
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What does "she up to" mean? Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:05 am  What does "she up to" mean?
 

lost_soul wrote:
Hi!

Maybe, on about is aslo a possible option, because I kind of know that to be on about = be talking about.
Do you find my reasoning plausible?

Good reasoning! As you said, though, 'to be on about' refers to what someone says -- 'What is she on about'? = 'What is she talking about?', in informal speech. Now, 'What is she up to' refers to what she is doing rather than saying.
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