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If you injure someone, an animal, or a part of the body, you cut the skin;
break a bone, cause bruising, etc.
Example
I injured my right arm when I fell off my bike.
If you hurt someone, an animal, or a part of the body, you cause a feeling of
pain.
Examples
Did you hurt yourself?
Stop! You are hurting my arm.
Healthy refers to the condition, which are good for someone’s health, or the
outward signs of good health.
Examples
They have healthy children.
This cold weather isn’t very healthy.
Order is much stronger than tell and is used of people who expert to be
obeyed.
Example
The policeman ordered the cyclist to stop.
Gaze (at) means to keep one’s eyes turned in a particular direction for a
long time.
Example
She gazed unhappily out of the window.
Stare (at) suggests a long, deliberate, fixed look. When we stare, the eyes
are often wide open.
Example
She lay there for an hour with her eyes staring at the ceiling.
Example
What is wrong with our economic system?
Example
This car is very economical. It does not use a lot of petrol.
Example
What is your height?
Example
The aircraft was flying at a height of 3.000 meters.
Example
How tall are you / is the building / tree?
High is also an adjective. It is related to senses (1) and (2) above but it is
not used for measuring people.
Example
How high is the wall?
Affect and effect
Example
Colours have been shown to affect people.
Example
Blue has a calming effect.
Example
How long is your journey to work?
A trip and (more formal) an excursion are short journeys and visits from
and returning to the same place. Excursion suggests a group of people
travelling together in order to visit something.
Example
When I was in England I went on a trip / an excursion to Oxford>
Example
I usually travel by train.
Example
I can’t remember his name.
I remembered to lock the door.
Example
I reminded him that he owed me £50.
Example
Shakespeare died in 1616.
Example
The King is dead. Long live the Queen.
Example
What’s the price of the green jacket?
A prize is what you are giving if you win a competition, or if you have
done something well.
Example
She received the prize for the best essay.
Example
She gives me a piece of advice.
She advised me to go home.
Example
He drives a Honda.
The person in control of a horse or bicycle in the person who rides it.
Example
I ride a bicycle to work.
Example
I often ride in my uncle’s car.
When talking about the way we travel, we use go by (car, boat / ship /
sea, bicycle, etc.)
Example
How did you go? I went by car.