Grammar Tense Structure:
- Present Tense: catch / catches up
- Past Tense: caught up
- Past Participle: caught up
- Present Participle: caught up
1: When you move faster and reach the same level or place as people who had been moving faster or doing better than you were, you catch up or catch up with them.
separable & non-separable phrasal verb
- We left an hour before them, but they drove fast and quickly caught up.
- We ran quickly and caught them up.
- We tried but we couldn’t catch up with them.
- After missing several weeks of class, I am so far behind my classmates that its going to take a lot of work to catch up.
- I’ll need a minor miracle to catch up with them.
- The local store will never catch up with the big high street chain for market share.
- They’ll never managed to catch the big supermarkets up.
- The thief was running so fast that the police couldn’t catch up with him and he got away.
- He got away as the police couldn’t catch him up.
2: After you have moved faster and reached the same level or place as people who had been moving faster or doing better than you are, you are caught up.
part adjective
- I missed a lot of the course due to illness, but I worked hard and now I’m all caught up.
3: catch up on: When you study or learn something you are interested in but have not had time for, you catch up on it.
non-separable phrasal verb
- You just need to speak to the local gossip Maria to catch up on all the latest news.
- I had been on holiday for 3 weeks so I had to catch up on all the developments with my team.
4: After you have studied or learned something you are interested in but have not had time for, you are caught up.
adjective
- We had a team meeting when I returned and got all the latest news with the clients and now I’m all caught up.