Mar 2, 2017
- Study box. Read these sentences carefully.
1. Joe’s looking up their number in the phone book. 2. I had to look several words up in the dictionary. 3. I don’t know when the course starts, but I’ll look it up for you. 4. He didn’t know my phone number, but he looked me up in the book. - Use the sentences in the study box to help you do these exercises.
- Complete the meaning of ‘look something up’ with a word or phrase below:
guess • search for • information • names • book • dictionary
to a word in a or some on a computer - Which of these are grammatically possible?
- He looked the word up.
- He looked up the word.
- He looked it up.
- He looked up it.
- He looked him up.
- Complete the meaning of ‘look something up’ with a word or phrase below:
- There is a grammatical mistake in one of these sentences. Can you find the mistake and correct it?
- I enjoy using a dictionary and looking up new words.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- I usually look up new words up in a bilingual dictionary.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- I only use the Internet as a resource, for looking up useful information.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- I don’t know where Brunei is—I would have to look it up on a map.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- I enjoy using a dictionary and looking up new words.
- Complete the following sentences with the correct form of ‘look something up’ and one of the objects below:
- Every time I try to . . . , the Internet crashes.
- look up her number
- look something up
- looked it up
- Why don’t you . . . in the phone book if you want to talk to her?
- look up her number
- look something up
- looked it up
- The next train leaves at six o’clock. I . . . on the timetable.
- look up her number
- look something up
- looked it up
- Every time I try to . . . , the Internet crashes.
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