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
Keep up means to continue doing or practising something so that it does not get weaker or stop. After the course ends, the learner wants to go on using French so as not to lose it.
Example: She reads a French newspaper every day to keep up her French.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: keep from — Incorrect. Keep from means to stop oneself or someone else from doing something.
Example: I could hardly keep from laughing at his joke.
Option 3: keep over — Incorrect. Keep over is 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.
Example: Keep the umbrella over the baby's head.
Option 4: keep off — Incorrect. Keep off means to stay away from a place or a subject.
Example: Please keep off the grass.