Everyday English
set something up
prepare something for use
To set something up means to arrange or prepare it so that it is ready to be used.
Hear it in real life
Is the projector ready?
Yes, I set it up before lunch.
We set the room up for the workshop before the guests arrived.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: set up it
Say: set it up
With a pronoun, put the pronoun between "set" and "up": "set it up."
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How it fits in a sentence.
set something up; set up something; set yourself up for something
Your turn: say it out loud
We set the room up for the workshop before the guests arrived.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
set something up
prepare something for use
“We set the room up for the workshop before the guests arrived.”
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