📚books📚
📖 book about/on: a book about cats
✅ I read about him in a book at school
✅ I like books about sport
❌ I like books of sport
✅ I’m reading a book by John Gray
❌ I’m reading a book of John Gray
📌 Collocations:
VERB + book: read a book/ look through a book (=look at the pages quickly)/ write a book/ publish a book/ a book comes out (=it is published for the first time)/ borrow a book (also take out a book British English) (=from a library)/ return a book (=to a library)/ renew a book (=arrange to continue borrowing it from a library)
BOOK + noun: a book shop (also book store American English)/ a book token British English (=a ticket that you can use to pay for a book)/ a book fair
the cover of a book/ a chapter of a book
THESAURUS
🔅 novel noun [countable] a book about imaginary people and events
🔅 fiction noun [uncountable] books that describe imaginary people and events
🔅 literature noun [uncountable] novels and plays that are considered to be important works of art
🔅 non-fiction noun [uncountable] books that describe real people and events
🔅 science fiction noun [uncountable] books about imaginary events in the future or space travel
🔅 reference book noun [countable] a book such as a dictionary or encyclopedia, which you look at to find information
🔅 textbook noun [countable] a book about a particular subject that you use in a classroom
🔅 set book British English, course book British English noun [countable] a book that you have to study as part of your course
🔅 guidebook noun [countable] a book telling visitors about a city or country
🔅 picture book noun [countable] a book for children with many pictures in it
🔅 hardcover/hardback noun [countable] a book that has a hard stiff cover
🔅 paperback noun [countable] a book that has a paper cover
🔅 biography noun [countable] a book about a real person’s life, written by another person
🔅 autobiography noun [countable] a book that someone has written about their own life
🔅 recipe book/cookery book British English (also cookbook American English) noun [countable] a book that tells you how to cook different meals
Idioms
📓a bookworm – a keen reader
📔a closed book: something or someone that is very difficult to understand.
📒an open book: something or someone that is easy to know about because nothing is kept secret.
📕to read the fine print: to read carefully
📗to read between the lines – to try to understand something that is not expressed openly or explicitly SYN: infer
📘bring someone to book: to punish someone, when they have done something wrong.
📙take a leaf out of someone’s book: to copy what someone else does because they are successful at doing it.
📖‘You can’t judge a book by its cover!’ – the outward appearance of something or someone is not a reliable indication of its/their true nature
#topic #vocabulary
#collocations #book
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📖 book about/on: a book about cats
✅ I read about him in a book at school
✅ I like books about sport
❌ I like books of sport
✅ I’m reading a book by John Gray
❌ I’m reading a book of John Gray
📌 Collocations:
VERB + book: read a book/ look through a book (=look at the pages quickly)/ write a book/ publish a book/ a book comes out (=it is published for the first time)/ borrow a book (also take out a book British English) (=from a library)/ return a book (=to a library)/ renew a book (=arrange to continue borrowing it from a library)
BOOK + noun: a book shop (also book store American English)/ a book token British English (=a ticket that you can use to pay for a book)/ a book fair
the cover of a book/ a chapter of a book
THESAURUS
🔅 novel noun [countable] a book about imaginary people and events
🔅 fiction noun [uncountable] books that describe imaginary people and events
🔅 literature noun [uncountable] novels and plays that are considered to be important works of art
🔅 non-fiction noun [uncountable] books that describe real people and events
🔅 science fiction noun [uncountable] books about imaginary events in the future or space travel
🔅 reference book noun [countable] a book such as a dictionary or encyclopedia, which you look at to find information
🔅 textbook noun [countable] a book about a particular subject that you use in a classroom
🔅 set book British English, course book British English noun [countable] a book that you have to study as part of your course
🔅 guidebook noun [countable] a book telling visitors about a city or country
🔅 picture book noun [countable] a book for children with many pictures in it
🔅 hardcover/hardback noun [countable] a book that has a hard stiff cover
🔅 paperback noun [countable] a book that has a paper cover
🔅 biography noun [countable] a book about a real person’s life, written by another person
🔅 autobiography noun [countable] a book that someone has written about their own life
🔅 recipe book/cookery book British English (also cookbook American English) noun [countable] a book that tells you how to cook different meals
Idioms
📓a bookworm – a keen reader
📔a closed book: something or someone that is very difficult to understand.
📒an open book: something or someone that is easy to know about because nothing is kept secret.
📕to read the fine print: to read carefully
📗to read between the lines – to try to understand something that is not expressed openly or explicitly SYN: infer
📘bring someone to book: to punish someone, when they have done something wrong.
📙take a leaf out of someone’s book: to copy what someone else does because they are successful at doing it.
📖‘You can’t judge a book by its cover!’ – the outward appearance of something or someone is not a reliable indication of its/their true nature
#topic #vocabulary
#collocations #book
@sirjimmy
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