Mar 2, 2017
- Study box. Read these sentences carefully.
1. The equipment is expensive and takes up a lot of space. 2. I’m sorry to take up so much of your time. 3. Looking for a place to live has been taking up all my time recently. 4. The whole day has been taken up with making phone calls. - Use the sentences in the study box to help you do these exercises.
- Choose the best verb to complete this meaning of ‘take something up’.
to . . . a particular amount of space or time- arrange
- be
- fill
- organize
- Which of these are grammatically possible?
- The television takes up a lot of room.
- The television takes a lot of room up.
- A lot of room is taken up.
- Choose the best verb to complete this meaning of ‘take something up’.
- In one of these sentences the verb ‘take up’ is not used correctly. Can you find and correct the mistake?
- The annual report takes up nearly thirty pages.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- The new flat screen monitors are very popular as they take up so little space.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- The main problem with this software is that it takes up too much disk space.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- What space there was had been took up by two long tables.
check you answer- correct
- incorrect
- The annual report takes up nearly thirty pages.
- Complete these sentences with either a positive or negative form of ‘take up’ in a suitable tense.
- This sleeping bag rolls up really small so it much space in my rucksack.
- I wish you didn’t have to work so much. It too much of your time.
- I’m sure he won’t mind helping you, as long as you too much of his time.
- He found that most of his time with looking after the children.
- Once we folded the chairs up, they hardly any room.
- This sleeping bag rolls up really small so it much space in my rucksack.
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