Students often study with music playing in the background, and people working around the house will usually turn on the television or radio to keep them company.
1. indicates direct object of action
2. indicates subject of causative expression
3. indicates an area traversed
4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
6. indicates object of d...
1. to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall), to let hang, to suspend (from), to hoist (e.g. sail), to raise (e.g. flag)
2. to put on (e.g. a blanket), to put on top of, to cover, to lay, to spread
3. to put on (glasses, etc.), to wear (a neckl...
1. while, during, as
2. while, although, though, despite, in spite of, notwithstanding
3. all, both
4. as (e.g. "as always", "as long ago"), in (e.g. "in tears")
5. while doing something else (at the same time)
1. normal, ordinary, regular, usual, common, average
2. normally, ordinarily, usually, generally, commonly
3. local train, train that stops at every station
1. thing, matter
2. incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
3. circumstances, situation, state of affairs
4. work, business, affair
5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not ...
1. indicates the subject of a sentence
2. indicates possession
3. but, however, (and) yet, though, although, while
4. and
5. used after an introductory remark or explanation
6. regardless of ..., whether ... (or not), no matter ...
7. indicates a des...
1. inside, interior
2. among, within
3. middle, center, centre
4. during, while, middle, midst, amid
5. interval, gap
6. mean, average
7. second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes), middle
8. medium grade, medium quality
9. red-light district
1. to do, to carry out, to perform
2. to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into)
3. to serve as, to act as, to work as
4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
5. to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use...