Grammar Prepositions – Lesson Sixty Five – Up To Preposition
In this grammar lesson, you learn about the Up To preposition in English and how to use it in your English conversation and writing. Below, you will see examples of how to use up to preposition, that include how you use this preposition in a sentence. Just follow those examples and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.
Previous Grammar Preposition
In our previous grammar preposition lesson, we covered the Up If you just landed on this page, we suggest that you complete our previous lesson including its quizzes before continuing on this lesson.
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How to Use Up to Preposition
up to: as much as; almost
Follow below examples to see how to use up to preposition in sentences.
1. An elephant can eat up to 400 pounds of food in one day!
2. There are some Americans who spend up to eight hours a day watching television.
3. He spends up to two or three hours on the phone every day at work.
4. A sudden thunderstorm flooded the streets. The water was up to the top of his tires.
up to: as high as
5. I’m up to Lesson Eight in the Grammar Level 1.
6. She worked her way up to a management position very quickly.
7. Most of the big decisions in the company are left up to him.
up to: this idiom is used for activity:
8.
A: What’s Tom up to these days?
B: Not much. He lost his job, so he spends a lot of time reading books now.
What are you up to?
What are you doing?
9. He walked up to a police officer and asked for help in finding his mother.
walk up to / go up to: to address a person; say something
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Next Grammar Preposition
In our next grammar preposition lesson, we will cover the Upon Preposition Before moving to the next lesson, we suggest that you complete this lesson including its quizzes.
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