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| lost_soul wrote: |
Eat your dinner up - finish (eating) your dinner.
Eat your dinner - just eat it
That's how I see it. |
But what about here?
Cut the onions and drop them into the pan.
Cut the onions up and drop them into the pan.
Cut the onions up a bit and drop them into the pan. |
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| #63 (permalink) Tue Jul 22, 2008 23:55 pm across vs over |
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| Molly wrote: |
| No problem here. How did you "come upon" that particular thread though? After all, it is 3 years old. |
There isn't any big mystery here, Molly. I mean lots of people spend time in multiple forums, and lots of people use Google. I don't know about you, but I've certainly received Google results that were three years old (and even older) before. And let's face it: if you're interested in reading various opinions about something, Google can often help you find a variety of opinions.
Just google one of the sentences you posted earlier in this thread, for example:
"Eat your dinner up."
Google will not only find the opinions voiced in the thread in this forum, but also this thread:
http://www.englishforums.com/English/BrokenUpAndBroken/cdqmv/post.htm
It's not rocket science.
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| #65 (permalink) Wed Jul 23, 2008 22:26 pm across vs over |
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Now you mention it, I remember that thread. It's striking similar to the thread from WRF:
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The use of "up" (particle), in many phrasal verbs, expresses intensity, perfectivity (completion) and/or result.
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| A poster at EF wrote: |
The use of "up" in such expressions commonly expresses perfectivity (i.e. completion, totality.).
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| #66 (permalink) Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:21 am across vs over |
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| So now you've found all those threads, MrP, do you agree that 'The use of "up" (particle), in many phrasal verbs, expresses intensity, perfectivity (completion) and/or result.'? |
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