An important step to improving your vocabulary is to not only learn the appropriate terms, but to learn the words that commonly go together with those terms. These word combinations are often, adjective + noun, verb + noun, and noun + verb pairs. Each of these collocation sheets provide collocations for commonly used words arranged into categories. Each collocation is illustrated with an example sentence.
Adjectives + "Equipment"
The following list are adjectives that are commonly used with the noun 'equipment'. Each adjective has an example sentence to illustrate usage.
the latest
He always buys the latest fishing equipment to make sure he catches the most fish.
modern
They've g
ot quite a bit of modern computer equipment in the house.
state-of-the-art
The lab uses only state-of-the-art equipment.
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Study this example situation:
The roof of bill’s house was damaged in a storm, so he arranged for a worker to repair it. Yesterday the came and did the job.
Bill had the roof repaired yesterday
این یعنی اینکه آن پسر خودش سقف خانه را تعمیر نکرده است.بلکه از شخص دیگری برای این کار در خواست کرده است. پس کس دیگری سقف را تعمیر کرده است.
This means: Bill didn’t repair the roof himself. He arranged someone else to do it for him.
Compare: Bill repaired the roof. (= he did it himself)
Bill had the roof repaired. (= he arranged for someone else to do it.)
Now study these sentences:
Did Peggy design her business cards herself or did she have them designed?
Get something done is possible instead of have something done.
I think you should get your hair cut. ( = have your hair cut)
have something done sometimes has a different meaning. For example:
he had all his money stolen while he was on vacation.
This doesn’t mean that he arranged for somebody to steal his money.! It means that: “ all his money was stolen.”
With this meaning, we use have something done to say that something happened to someone: Jack had his nose broken in a fight.(= his nose was broken.)
Verb + ing Stop enjoy dislike admit consider miss Finish mind imagine deny involve postpone Delay suggest regret avoid practice risk If these verbs are followed by another verb, the structure is usually verb + -ing: ☻Stop talking! ☻I’ll do the shopping when I’ve finished cleaning the apartment. ☻I don’t miss working late every night. ☻Have you ever considered going to live in another country? ☻I can’t imagine George riding a motorcycle. ☻When I’m on vacation, I enjoy not having to get up early. The following expressions also take -ing: Give up (=stop) keep or keep on (= do something go on (= continue) continuously or repeatedly) put off ( = postpone)
☻ Are you going to give up smoking? ☻ He kept (on) interrupting me while I was speaking Note the passive form (being done / being seen / being told, etc.): ☻ I don’t mind being told what to do. You can not normally use the infinitive (to do/to dance, etc.) after these verbs and expressions: ☻ I enjoy dancing. (Not to dance) ☻Would you mind closing the door? (Not to close) ☻Jill suggested going to the movies. (Not to go) When you are talking about finished actions, you can also say having done/having stolen, etc. But it is not necessary to use this form. You can also use the simple -ing form for finished actions: ☻ He admitted stealing (or having stolen) the money. ☻ They now regret getting (or having gotten) married. With some of the verbs in this unit (especially admit, deny, regret, and suggest) you can also use a (the) … structure: ☻ He denied that he had stolen the money. (Or denied stealing) ☻ Jill suggested that we go to the movies. (Or suggested going) |
If the ayes have it, those who voted in favour of something have won
If someone goes off on one, they get extremely angry indeed