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#2 (permalink) Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:43 am Meaning of come through |
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Hi Sonia,
The meaning of come through is be successful after some difficulties. Look at this sentence: Although she had been ill for some time, she worked very hard at her exercises and eventually came through and returned to good health.
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#3 (permalink) Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:35 am Meaning of come through |
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Hi Sonia,
The meaning of come through is be successful after some difficulties. Look at this sentence: Although she had been ill for some time, she worked very hard at her exercises and eventually came through and returned to good health.
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WHAT IS THE MEANING OF COME UP? |
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#4 (permalink) Fri Feb 17, 2006 14:17 pm Come up |
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Hi,
There is more than one meaning. Can you give me an example you have found of its use.
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#5 (permalink) Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:18 am Come up |
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Correct! "come through" means to move into a trouble, problem or some other inhibiting entity and to sucessfully (sucessful being in the eye of the beholder) passing out of this entity. I use the term entity because people can come through many things.
Come up however is quite easy, come up means "to rise"
A problem came up The flowers came up His dinner came up He came UPstairs
It just depends how you look at language. ...
Which in itself is interesting. Do we really need all these complicated words such as pronoun, noun, verb and so on? Maybe this should be for another thread. Would be an interesting discussion I am sure. |
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#6 (permalink) Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:53 am Language |
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Hi No Name,
I'm intrigued by your comment:
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Which in itself is interesting. Do we really need all these complicated words such as pronoun, noun, verb and so on? Maybe this should be for another thread. Would be an interesting discussion I am sure.
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But then I suppose that was your cunning plan to get something started. At the same time whether we need these words is not the point. They're there - they exist. What is a poor teacher to do but try to explain!
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