Please read:
a.Economic growth has slowed a little.
b.The car slowed down as it approached the junction.
c.The game slowed up a little in the second half.
d.The ice on the roads was slowing us down.
e. You must slow down a little.
f. We hope to slow the spread of the disease.
Is there the difference btw “Slow (sb/sth) up”," slow (sb/sth) down", “slow (sb/sth)”? Are they interchangeable in all 6 sentences?
Thanks
K
Hi,
My suggestions are in brackets:
a.Economic growth has slowed a little. (not grown so fast)
b.The car slowed down as it approached the junction. (reduced speed)
c.The game slowed up a little in the second half. (didn’t have as fast a pace)
d.The ice on the roads was slowing us down. (making us travel more slowly)
e. You must slow down a little. (not work so hard)
f. We hope to slow the spread of the disease. (reduce)
Alan
Dear Sir,
a.Economic growth has slowed/has slowed down/has slowed up a little. The same meaning for 3 cases?
b.The car slowed/slowed down/ slowed up as it approached the junction. The same meaning for 3 cases?
c.The game slowed/slowed up/slowed down a little in the second half. The same meaning for 3 cases?
d.The ice on the roads was slowing us down/was slowing us/was slowing us up . The same meaning for 3 cases?
e. You must slow down/slow up/slow a little. The same meaning for 3 cases?
f. We hope to slow/slow up/slow down the spread of the disease. The same meaning for 3 cases?
thanks
K
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Just a note:
Slow down is much more commonly used than slow up.
“Statistical proof” supplied by Saint Google: 
slow down…42,400,000
slow up…400,000
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Hi Amy,
42,400,000 means 42,400,000 times?
42,400,000 means 42,400,000 times?
K
slow down vs slow up:
Google found forty-two million four hundred thousand instances of the usage of slow down online. (42,000,000)
The Google results for slow up were only four hundred thousand. (400,000)
That’s a pretty extreme difference in usage.
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