Set Up: (3)

Grammar Tense Structure:

• Present Tense: set / sets up
• Past Tense: set up
• Past Participle: set up
• Present Participle: setting up

1: When you arrange the parts of something so that they are in their proper position and can function, you set it up.

separable & non-separable phrasal verb

• The kids got a swing set for Christmas, and Dad had to set it up in the snow.
• When you’re camping, be sure to set your tent up before it gets dark.
  

2: After the parts of something are in their proper position and function properly, they are set up.

part adjective

• The guests will arrive in one hour. Are the tables set up?

3: When you plan and organize an activity or project, you set it up.

separable & non-separable phrasal verb

• I set up a 4pm meeting with client and his lawyer.
• Setting up a meeting of all the staff took a lot of planning.
  

4: When an activity or project is planned, arranged, or organized, it is set up.

part adjective

• The arrangements for the wedding were very complicated, but everything is set up now and we are good to go.
  

5: How an activity or project is planned or arranged is the setup

noun

• What’s the setup for the Christmas party tomorrow?

6: When you commit a crime but make it appear that another, innocent person is guilty of the crime, you set the innocent person up.

separable & non-separable phrasal verb: informal

• He robbed the bank and tried to set me up by leaving some of the stolen money in my apartment and then telling the police about it.
• The detective didn’t believe me when I told him I was set up.