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keep
Verb
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When you keep something for someone, you make something safe.
I will keep your money for you.
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When you keep something, you do not give it back.
Keep the change.
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When you keep safe, happy, quiet, etc, you stay that way.
Keep quiet.
keep
Noun
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A keep is a special safe area of a castle.
The king lived in the keep during the battle.
up
Preposition
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Toward the top or toward the sky.
The balloon went up.
up
Adjective
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In a high position.
The flag is up.
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.
It was an up day.
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optimistic.
He is feeling up.
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Put in trust, entrusted.
It is up to you.
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ing, occurring.
What’s up?
They act like something is up.
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.
Something is up with him.
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Planning, plotting mischief.
He is up to something.
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ed.
It is all up with them.
up
Noun
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State of being up, often with down.
Life has its ups and downs.
up
Verb
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Increase, increment.
We upped the dosage.
with
Preposition
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With is used to show the other people or things present when something happened
I went to school with my brother.
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With is used to describe something added to something else
The cat has a collar with a bell on it.
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With is used to show what thing is used to do something
He hit the nail with a hammer.
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Used to introduce non-finite and verbless clauses.
With the children so sick, we weren't able to get much work done.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
time
Noun
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Time is what we measure with a clock.
"What time do you finish work?" "At four o'clock (4:00)."
I don't have time to talk to you right now. Can we do it later?
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If you do something one time, you do it once.
time
Verb
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If you time something, you measure how long it takes in seconds, minutes, hours, etc.
Take out your watch and time yourself during the test.