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pick something up again
start an activity again
To pick something up again means to start doing an activity or using a skill after stopping for some time.
Hear it in real life
Do you still speak Spanish?
Not regularly, but I'd like to pick it up again.
After my exams, I plan to pick swimming up again.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I want to pick up again my guitar.
Say: I want to pick my guitar up again.
With a pronoun, put it between 'pick' and 'up'; with a noun, both positions are possible.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
pick something up again; picked it up again; would like to pick it up again
Your turn: say it out loud
After my exams, I plan to pick swimming up again.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
pick something up again
start an activity again
“After my exams, I plan to pick swimming up again.”
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