Choose the appropriate option to complete the following sentence:
How do you plan to ______your French once this course finishes?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Keep up
A phrasal verb is a verb joined with a small word such as up, out or together. The two words together have a new meaning.
After the course ends, the learner wants to go on using French so as not to lose it.
Complete sentence: How do you plan to keep up your French once this course finishes?
| Phrasal verb | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) keep from | to stop oneself or someone else from doing something | I could hardly keep from laughing at his joke. |
| (2) Keep up (answer) | to continue doing or practising something so that it does not get weaker or stop | She reads a French newspaper every day to keep up her French. |
| (3) keep over | not a phrasal verb with a meaning of its own. The words only have their literal sense of holding something above something else, which does not fit a language. | Keep the umbrella over the baby's head. |
| (4) keep off | to stay away from a place or a subject | Please keep off the grass. |