The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 87, 16, 96, 96, 106. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Minh marks a craft item’s price up from 10 to 12.
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One customer buys up all three remaining paper boats at Minh’s stall.
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Minh pays out a craft competition prize in an envelope.
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A customer finally pays up an outstanding bill at Minh’s stall.
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Minh’s busy stall is raking in money, with many sold items and a well-filled takings box.
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A conversation in context
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Mai
Did the stall mark up the price of those notebooks?
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Did the stall mark up the price of those notebooks?
Alex
Yes, but one customer still bought up the remaining stock.
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Yes, but one customer still bought up the remaining stock.
Mai
They will pay out the prize money after the fair.
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They will pay out the prize money after the fair.
Compare the uses
mark up / buy up
“Mark up” increases a selling price; “buy up” acquires all or much of a supply. Raising a price is a seller’s action, while buying up is usually a buyer’s.
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A situation to apply what you have learned
A stall increases a price. One customer later purchases nearly all the remaining notebooks.
Describe the seller’s price action.
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The stall marked up the notebook price.
The seller increased notebook prices with “marked up”; the subject is the stall rather than the customer.
Replace “the notebooks” with “them”: Buy up the notebooks.
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Buy them up.
“Them” replaces the notebooks being purchased, so say “buy them up” with the pronoun before “up”.
Write a report about the customer rather than the seller.
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One customer bought up most of the notebooks despite the higher price.
“Bought up most” reports one customer taking nearly all the notebooks; “despite” retains the higher price.
The usage comparisons are checked against the Cambridge Dictionary entries linked beside the compared expressions. The additional conversations and exercises are written for this course.
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