Russian85
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- Sep 21, 2013
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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Dear members of the community,
As a learner of English I faced a phenomenon of using 'up' after verbs. While the using of it is clear for me in the case of collocation (phrasal verb) when the meaning of the verb becomes absolutly different as in the case of 'give' and 'give up', but not always clear in the case of a slight changing or even absence of changing in meaning as in 'open' and 'open up', 'end' and 'end up', 'clear' (= explain) and 'clear up' etc.
If 'Thanks for clearing that up' = 'Thanks for clearing that' then why do you use 'up'?
So, my question is 'Why do you use 'up' so often while it almost doesn't change the meaning'
What does 'up' eventually add to the meaning?
As a learner of English I faced a phenomenon of using 'up' after verbs. While the using of it is clear for me in the case of collocation (phrasal verb) when the meaning of the verb becomes absolutly different as in the case of 'give' and 'give up', but not always clear in the case of a slight changing or even absence of changing in meaning as in 'open' and 'open up', 'end' and 'end up', 'clear' (= explain) and 'clear up' etc.
If 'Thanks for clearing that up' = 'Thanks for clearing that' then why do you use 'up'?
So, my question is 'Why do you use 'up' so often while it almost doesn't change the meaning'
What does 'up' eventually add to the meaning?