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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Intermediate Vocabulary: Verbs With Up

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. I slept for ages and finally   up at midday.
  2. They went for a long walk to   up an appetite for the evening's dinner.
  3. There was so much mess that it took ages to   up after the party.
  4. In just two months he managed to   up a 4000 bill with the stationery company.
  5. Come on.   up. Don't be so miserable over such a little thing.
  6. We're going to   up the room with a few colourful posters of England football stars.
  7. I've got an exam next week so I need to quickly   up on my English grammar.
  8. It's the sort of party where you need to   up. No jeans are allowed.
  9. I was once   up by a gang of bullies at school. Afterwards, I was covered in bruises and I was walking with a limp for two weeks.
  10. Things are beginning to   up. It's not going to be so bad afterall.
  11. This is another plan that he's   up to raise money without having to do any work.
  12. For homework, we had to   up a story ending with the words "and she never spoke to him again". It was easy. I wrote about my ex-girlfriend.

Your answers

 

1. A B C D
2. A B C D
3. A B C D
4. A B C D
5. A B C D
6. A B C D
7. A B C D
8. A B C D
9. A B C D
10. A B C D
11. A B C D
12. A B C D