I. CONJUNCTION AND PREPOSITION USES
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Ple~e look at category 12 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.
1.
If something happens ~ something else happens, it happens at the same time.
Another policeman h~ been injured ~ fighting continued this morning...
All the jury’s eyes were on him ~ he continued...
The play started ~ I got there.
CONJ
2.
You use the structure ~...~ when you are comparing things.
I never went through a final exam that w~ ~ difficult ~ that one...
There w~ no obvious re~on why this could not be ~ good a film ~ the original.
PHRASE
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As is also a conjunction.
Being a mother isn’t ~ bad ~ I thought at first!...
I don’t think he w~ ever ~ fit ~ he should have been.
PHRASE
3.
You use ~...~ to emph~ize amounts of something.
You can look forward to a significant c~h return by saving from ~ little ~ ?10 a month...
She gets ~ many ~ eight thousand letters a month.
PHRASE emph~is
4.
You use ~ when you are indicating what someone or something is or is thought to be, or what function they have.
He h~ worked ~ a diplomat in the US, Sudan and Saudi Arabia...
The news apparently came ~ a complete surprise...
I had natural ability ~ a footballer.
PREP
5.
If you do something ~ a child or ~ a teenager, for example, you do it when you are a child or a teenager.
She loved singing ~ a child and started vocal training at 12.
PREP
6.
You use ~ to say how something happens or is done, or to indicate that something happens or is done in the same way ~ something else.
I’ll behave toward them ~ I would like to be treated...
Today, ~ usual, he w~ wearing a three-piece suit...
The book w~ banned in the US, ~ were two subsequent books.
CONJ
7.
You use ~ in expressions like ~ a result and ~ a consequence to indicate how two situations or events are related to each other.
As a result of the growing fears about home security, more people are arranging for someone to stay in their home when they’re away...
PREP
8.
You use ~ to introduce short clauses which comment on the truth of what you are saying.
As you can see, we’re still working...
We were sitting, ~ I remember, in a riverside restaurant.
CONJ
9.
You can use ~ to mean ‘because’ when you are explaining the re~on for something.
Enjoy the first hour of the day. This is important ~ it sets the mood for the rest of the day.
= since
CONJ
10.
You say ~ it were in order to make what you are saying sound less definite.
I’d understood the words, but I didn’t, ~ it were, understand the question.
PHRASE: PHR with cl vagueness
11.
You use expressions such ~ ~ it is, ~ it turns out, and ~ things stand when you are making a contr~t between a possible situation and what actually happened or is the c~e.
I want to work at home on a Tuesday but ~ it turns out sometimes it’s a Wednesday or a Thursday.
PHRASE
12.
~ against: see against
~ ever: see ever
~ a matter of fact: see fact
~ follows: see follow
~ long ~: see long
~ opposed to: see opposed
~ regards: see regard
~ soon ~: see soon
~ such: see such
~ well: see well
~ well ~: see well
~ yet: see yet
II. USED WITH OTHER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use ~ for and ~ to at the beginning of a sentence in order to introduce a slightly different subject that is still connected to the previous one.
I feel that there’s a lot of pressure put on policemen. And ~ for putting guns in their hands, I don’t think that’s a very good idea at all.
PREP-PHRASE: PREP n/-ing
2.
You use ~ to to indicate what something refers to.
They should make decisions ~ to whether the student needs more help...
PREP-PHRASE: PREP wh
3.
If you say that something will happen ~ of, or in British English ~ from, a particular date or time, you mean that it will happen from that time on.
The border, effectively closed since 1981, will be opened ~ of January the 1st...
She is to retire ~ from 1 October.
PREP-PHRASE
4.
You use ~ if and ~ though when you are giving a possible explanation for something or saying that something appears to be the c~e when it is not.
Anne shrugged, ~ if she didn’t know...
PHRASE