Episode 21: “Look Up” Explained: What It Really Means in English

[00:00:00]How? That's way more than I expected.

[00:00:02]Which is correct? A. I looked up the prices on the website. B. I looked up the website for the prices. 3 2 1 Answer A.

[00:00:14]I looked up the prices on the website.

[00:00:17]Look up is usually used for information, not for the source where you find it. We look up information. Look up the price.

[00:00:24]Look up a word. Look up an address. We usually don't look up a website when we mean search for information on it.

[00:00:31]Instead, we say visit a website, check a website, search a website. So, we say I looked up the prices on the website. We don't say I looked up the website for the prices. Got it? I looked up the prices on the website.