Do
you ever think about the words we use?
Well
I do.
The
English language is very complicated with words that sound the same but are
spelled differently
For
example
through,
and threw.
ewe
and you
hair
and care
stair
and stare
tongue
and rung
stew
and shoe
Then
there are the expressions we use.
In a
roundabout way, swings and roundabouts, drive around the roundabout, funfair
roundabouts.
And
we can plant a tree or work on an engineering plant.
Set a
jelly, set wheels in motion, have a full set of something, set fire to it, and set
it down.
Lift
things up or lift them down, take the lift, have face lift or have an
experience that is uplifting.
You
can be a mine of information, go down a mine, lay a mine or say something is
mine.
John
can take the road on the left, feel left right out or get left behind.
There
are all sorts of traps for the unwary language student…
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