chop up meaning and examples
Meaning
- Chop up means to cut something into small pieces, usually with a knife or similar tool.
- It can also be used figuratively to mean dividing something into smaller parts.
Grammar and Usage
- Part of speech: Phrasal verb
- Transitive: Requires an object (e.g., chop up vegetables).
- Structure: chop up + noun
- Figurative: can be used for both physical objects and abstract ideas (e.g., chop up the project into tasks).
Common Phrases
- chop up vegetables
- chop up onions/garlic
- chop up firewood
- chop up the text/article
- chop up the project
Collocations
- verb + chop up: carefully chop up, roughly chop up
- noun + chop up: chop up meat, chop up logs, chop up carrots
- adverb + chop up: finely chop up, quickly chop up
Examples
- She chopped up some onions for the soup.
- Can you chop up the carrots into smaller pieces?
- The chef chopped up the herbs before adding them to the dish.
- They chopped up the firewood for the campfire.
- He chopped up the article into sections for easier reading.
- The project was chopped up into smaller tasks.
- Please chop up the garlic finely.
- The teacher chopped up the lesson into short activities.
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