do we speak up and why are the officers up for election and why is it up to the secretary to write up the report?
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.
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 about the proper uses of up, look the word up in 