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Missing Word question
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:01 pm
by Optimist
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?
Re: Missing Word question
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:30 pm
by vasu
"out of" should be the answer.
Re: Missing Word question
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:24 am
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?
Re: Missing Word question
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:49 am
by Optimist
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.
Re: Missing Word question
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:31 am
by yoyo123
out of
could be up above , up out of, but not up of
Re: Missing Word question
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:40 am
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").
Re: Missing Word question
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:46 am
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.