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Give up vs Giving up

Both 'give up' and 'giving up' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Give up' is the base form of the verb and is used when talking about the action of stopping trying or surrendering. 'Giving up' is the present participle form of the verb and is used when describing the ongoing or continuous action of stopping trying or surrendering.

Last updated: March 24, 2024 • 771 views

Give up

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate the action of stopping trying or surrendering. It is often followed by a noun or pronoun.

Examples:

I will never give up on my dreams.
She decided to give up smoking.
Don't give up on yourself.
He should give up his bad habits.
It's important not to give up when faced with challenges.

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Give up your half of the 3-D printer?
Give up our plans, the legitimization?
Give up is the easiest decision.
Give up and throw it all away like it was nothing.
Give up and you die, Frank.
Give up your friends, your lovers.
Give up your family, your past.
Give up your hopeless attempts to escape.
Give up, Chuck, you're done.
Give up your friends, your lovers.
Give up the girl... Boston is yours.
Give up what you want for the woman you marry.
Give up your title if it makes you happy.
Give up now, and we won't destroy you.
Give up freedom itself and everything will be returned to you.
Give up the tea, I've got two old women who have to eat.
Give up already... this is the end for you.
Give up the Cadillac... you never drive it... and the jade earrings.
Give up now while there's still time.
Give up now and we'll end this quick.

Alternatives:

quit
surrender
abandon
relinquish
cede

Giving up

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe the ongoing or continuous action of stopping trying or surrendering. It is often used in present tense sentences.

Examples:

She is giving up on her diet.
They are giving up their search for the missing dog.
I keep catching him giving up on his work.
He is always giving up too easily.
Why are you giving up so soon?

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Giving up your manhood to be near the woman you love.
Giving up my social life to work seven days a week at this place has to have its perks, right?
Thought you were giving up on being the lawyer of lost causes.
So you fully realized just what you were giving up.
Giving up my life, my kids.
Giving up wine for a whole month?
Giving up the shipyard and the sawmill is hard for many of you - but perhaps the doubled profits from the rubber duck industry - may help us forget.
"Giving up the chance to fall in love again."
Giving up multilingual internal communication potentially means reducing the possibility for political action by Members of the European Parliament who are fully entitled to express themselves in their mother tongue.
Giving up fiscal sovereignty is tantamount to saying that the smaller, more peripheral States of the Union will no longer have available an important instrument for attracting investment, wealth, companies and job creation.
It's not giving up, man.
I'll even consider giving up the bees.
But giving up your life for it will achieve nothing.
We're not getting this close and giving up.
Actually, I was giving up on myself.
But giving up on a patient, giving up on a surgery...
Giving up where all the bodies are buried.
Giving up my dream of becoming a heart surgeon was depressing.
Giving up control made me crazy.
Giving up custodial rights doesn't mean you can't visit.

Alternatives:

quitting
surrendering
abandoning
relinquishing
ceding

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