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"Hand in" and "Pass up" are equally accepted by the English-speaking world. What's your vote?
Question:In the context of this sentence:
"Please hand in your homework!"
Is "pass up" equally accepted?
Note that "accepted" does not mean "correct".
Answers:
Well, when my teachers use "pass up", they mean to literally pass it up to the person sitting in front of us, so all papers get to the front row, and the teachers can collect them from there. Usually, this is the easiest way for teachers to collect homework. So, I don't see why "pass up" wouldn't be accepted when it's easier to understand than "hand in" in such cases.
I think both work equally well, but as for a vote, I suppose I'd pick "pass up", just because it's more widely used by my teachers.
When the teacher is in front of the room and asks you to pass up your work, it is acceptable. Hand in your homework indicates that he or she may be anywhere in the room. . . Both are fine use of the English language.
I accept both. Language is idiomatic and it evolves. I live in the American South. I hear much worse.
Hmmm...being a teacher, I would say this: If students must give me their papers, I would telll them to hand them in or even "turn them in" ..that is like telling them to give them to me without regard to where I am or where they are .... But the phrase "pass them up" would mean, that starting from the back of the room, to pass the papers to the person in front so that I may collect them all from the first person in each row.
To "hand in" homework implies that each person seperately will bring their homework to the instructor.
To "pass up" homework implies that no one will be getting out of their seat or standing up. Rather all homework is passed forward, toward the instructor, from students sitting the back of the room. The student sitting in the first seat closest to the teacher will receive all the papers from those in behind him and the instructor is able to continue a lesson without much disruption in class time.
since you asked for a Vote, i say it is NOT equally accepted.
"hand in" is the more appropriate way to say it. you "hand in" homework, since homework means "after school work." simply means you do your work At home then submit it to the teacher the next day. that's all.
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