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maverick88

#77320 Mon, 28 Feb 05 08:39 PM

"The teacher asked the student to make ___ a list of the topics he didn't manage to learn on his own"

What would you use here? Our or up? I don't quite understand the difference in this case.
Could anyone please clarify it to me?

maverick88

Joined on Mon, Nov 22 2004

Israel

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An English learner

nona the brit

#77336 Mon, 28 Feb 05 11:05 PM

The phrase is 'make up'. It means to create/invent/devise. It would make more sense here to simply make a list of the topics (then he actually didn't manage to learn them in reality) rather than make up a list of topics (which has a slight inferance of something creative or fictional, not exact).

'will you make up a list of what you want from the shops?'
Children make up stories to excuse their mischief.

also
'Will you make up the bed in the spare room?' (meaning put on linen etc a usually unused/new bed)

nona the brit

Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004

England

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The name says it all.