Question

Based on this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," what is the contextual meaning of the phrase "take up"?

"Ah, yes," the major said. "Why, then, do you not take up the use of grammar?" So we took up the use of grammar, and soon Italian was such a difficult language that I was afraid to talk to him until I had the grammar straight in my mind.

Answer 1

It would mean to engage in the use of it. Or something along those lines.

Answer 2

Select the correct answer.
Based on this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," what is the contextual meaning of the phrase "take up"?

"Ah, yes," the major said. "Why, then, do you not take up the use of grammar?" So we took up the use of grammar, and soon Italian was such a difficult language that I was afraid to talk to him until I had the grammar straight in my mind.

A.
to become interested in or engaged in something
B.
to begin to hold or work at a position or post
C.
to occupy time, space, or the attention of someone
D.
to pursue a matter later or further with someone

Answer 3

It could be A or D. Both can be used If you used A it would make sense because he is engaging in the use of grammar. However with D it says "We took up the use of grammar" so it could be that as well cause they are working on it later. I would guess A is the right answer but it could be either.

Answer 4

Which two sentences in this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" seem to foreshadow Dexter’s future obsession with "possessing" Judy Jones?
Now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained. They persuaded Dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the State university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the East, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. But do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

Answer 5

I have no idea, sorry :/

Answer 6

@lina71 close this question and ask a new one abt that second one