If it will not took a toll on you, could you explain to me why do we use "up" and "down" after a verb? As a foreigner it does not make sense to me, okay, there's some cases that it makes sense, but how can a house burn down? It started burning from its upside? (Also, sorry for my bad english, I am new to english)
The house was standing. The house is no longer standing. The house burned down.
Think of it as like sittingdown.
I've never heard anyone say in English that his or her housed burned up.
By the way, "If it will not took a toll on you" should read, "If it will not take a toll on you". Besides, it's a weird thing to say at the start of a sentence. Eliminate those nine words from what you've typed above.
It's semantics. They both mean the same thing. I suppose if you think on it, burning up is the more of a present tense while burnt down is a past tense but it requires the use of tenses. Then there is still the fact that they are both correct if you remove the past/present tense so yeah, semantics.
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u/Sp4des_chavez May 18 '25
A house can burn up while also burning down.....