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Old 18-Apr-2005, 20:37
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How could I use "upon"?
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How could I use "upon"?
It isn't used that much. We can use it instead of 'on' sometimes:

It's on the table.
I put it on the table.

Here, you could substitute it in the second example, though I doubt that I would.

However, it is fairly commonly used in some phrasal verbs and other expressions as an alternative to 'on' or a varient:

Come upon = come across
Upon arrival = on arrival

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