Missing Word question
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Missing Word question
Can someone help on the following cloze sentences, please? We are ok with "1" but unsure about "2". A choice of words was not provided.
As quick as a flash, my dad jumped < 1 > the water. He held Patsy’s head up to keep it < 2 > the water so that she could breathe.
1 should be "into"
2 should be "up of", but we have "out of". Which one could it be?
As quick as a flash, my dad jumped < 1 > the water. He held Patsy’s head up to keep it < 2 > the water so that she could breathe.
1 should be "into"
2 should be "up of", but we have "out of". Which one could it be?
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"out of" should be the answer.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
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Where does it say it should be "up of"? That would make a very strange phrase indeed. Was there a misprint on the paper?
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It states "up of" in the answers.mystery wrote:Where does it say it should be "up of"? That would make a very strange phrase indeed. Was there a misprint on the paper?
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out of
could be up above , up out of, but not up of
could be up above , up out of, but not up of
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Re: Missing Word question
Then it's wrong. Out of is good. And it would be absurd were above not to be acceptable, given "keeping their head above water" is a popular idiom. "Up of" is simply wrong, and a swift look at the British National Corpus (see here to re-run my search) shows nothing using "up of the" in remotely that sense. It's not American, either (cf. "in back of").Optimist wrote:It states "up of" in the answers.mystery wrote:Where does it say it should be "up of"? That would make a very strange phrase indeed. Was there a misprint on the paper?
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My lap-top is making a mess-up of looking in the British National Corpus but I will look later as it sounds intriguing.