I want to write here something about the English language once a week.
I will be glad to hear feedback on what I write.

This is something I found in Google:
                                              
 This two-letter word  in English has more meanings than any other  two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.'  It is listed in  the dictionary as an [adv.], [prep.], [adj.], [n]  or [v].   

It's easy to  understand UP, meaning toward the sky  or at the top of the list, but when we awaken 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, brighten  UP a room, polish  UP  the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.  We  lock UP the house and fix  UP the old  car.   
   
At other times, this  little word has real special meaning.   People stir UP

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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

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at night.  We seem  to be pretty mixed UP about UP!   

To be knowledgeable  about the proper uses of  UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary.   In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost  1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty  definitions.   
   
 
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.   

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