UP – English Grammar Profiler

Here are over a dozen ways that the word ‘up’ is used in English.  Firstly, ‘up’ is most commonly used as a part of phrasal verbs.

1 UP (RP) adverb particle:

1 SET UP 1105960

Well, I suppose

 I‘d set up a meeting 

with the State Committee for Scientific Research in Moscow.

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2 IT UP 713509

1 PICK IT UP 40589

We just need him to pick it up, 

and then I can lift the print 

using this 3D laser scanner.

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2 SET IT UP 36490 3 KEEP IT UP 21494 4 PICKED IT UP 17053 5 LOOK IT UP 15808 6 BACK IT UP 14209 7 MIX IT UP 13670 8 BRING IT UP 10387 9 GIVE IT UP 10122 10 OPEN IT UP 9877 11 CLEAN IT UP 9844 12 PUT IT UP 8792 13 SUCK IT UP 7618 14 MAKE IT UP 7192 15 SETTING IT UP 6931 16 LOOKED IT UP 6338 17 FILL IT UP 6185 18 SUM IT UP 6040 19 TAKE IT UP 5980

20 SUMS IT UP 5934

3 END UP 618471 4 PICK UP 526637 5 COME UP 419888 6 ENDED UP 401178 7 PICKED UP 332784 8 MAKE UP 311322 9 SIGN UP 310690 10 MADE UP 294974 11 SETTING UP 249737 12 SHOW UP 246437 13 GREW UP 243856 14 KEEP UP 238686 15 GIVE UP 236196 16 BACK UP 221466 17 THEM UP 212975 18 CAME UP 207913 19 WAKE UP 172015

20 COMING UP 165344

3 (II21)  ‘up to’ is listed at B1 as complex prepositions.

4 (RG21)

It‘s up to ten days now.

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5 (JJ31)  up to date (adjective)

6 UP (II) simple preposition

7 (RL21) up front (adverb) (unlisted in the EVP)

Would you like to sit up front?

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8 (JJ22)  adjective

1 FED UP 3558

My students are fed up, 

they‘re really fed up with the way business is screwing up the environment 

and making wealth inequality worse, 

and putting money and profits above all else.

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2 GROWN UP 2015
3  HARD UP 214

9 (NN122) noun

1  FOLLOW UP 1252
2 GROWN UP 175

10 UP (VERB)

11 (JJ41) up to the minute

12 UP (JJ21) up-front (unlisted in the EVP) 

She calculated the up-front cost.

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