This 2 letter word has a hundred completely different meanings.
So what is this stuff about English being easy?
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other
two-letter word, and that is
"UP."
It's easy to understand
UP,
meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we waken in the
morning, why do we wake
UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come
UP?
Why do we speak
UP
and why are the officers
UP
for election and why is it
UP
to the secretary to write
UP
a report?
We call
UP
our friends And we use it to brighten
UP
a room, polish
UP
the silver, we warm
UP
the leftovers and clean
UP
the kitchen. We lock
UP
the house and some guys fix
UP
the old car.
At other times the little
word has real special meaning. People stir
UP
trouble, line
UP
for tickets, work
UP
an appetite, and think
UP
excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed
UP
is special.
And this
UP
is confusing:
A drain must be opened
UP
because it is stopped
UP.
We open
UP
a store in the morning but we close it
UP
at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed
UP
about
UP!
To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of
UP,
look
UP
the word in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, the word up, takes
UP
almost 1/4th the page and definitions add
UP
to about thirty.
If you are
UP
to it, you might try building
UP
a list of the many ways
UP
is used. It will take
UP
a lot of your time, but if you don't give
UP,
you may wind
UP
with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is
clouding
UP
. When the sun comes out we say
it is clearing
UP.
When it rains, it wets
UP
the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry
UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it
UP,
for now my time is
UP,
so.............
I'll shut
UP.
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