Missing Word question

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Optimist
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Missing Word question

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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?
vasu
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Re: Missing Word question

Post by vasu »

"out of" should be the answer.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
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Re: Missing Word question

Post by mystery »

Where does it say it should be "up of"? That would make a very strange phrase indeed. Was there a misprint on the paper?
Optimist
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Re: Missing Word question

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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?
It states "up of" in the answers.
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Re: Missing Word question

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out of

could be up above , up out of, but not up of
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Re: Missing Word question

Post by tokyonambu »

Optimist wrote:
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?
It states "up of" in the answers.
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").
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Re: Missing Word question

Post by mystery »

My lap-top is making a mess-up of looking in the British National Corpus but I will look later as it sounds intriguing.
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