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What is the difference between coming and coming up ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between coming and coming up ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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It depends on the context.
"Come up" - to literally go upwards somewhere.
"Are you not gonna come upstairs?"
"Yea, yea, I'm coming up."
"Come up" - to be next, to be approaching
"The end of the school year is coming up, and my kids are very excited."
"Come up" - to invent, construct, etc.
"I came up with this genius idea! Imagine hot chocolate, but cold!"
"So, chocolate milk?"
"Come up" - to appear quickly, to randomly happen, to occur
"Sorry, I couldn't make it. An emergency came up."
"Come up" - (British only) to begin studying at a university.
"He came up to Oxford to get his Ph.D."
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