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Lucus Ong Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Could anybody correct my ideas to them? fair/ rate/ charge/ fee/expenditure

Could anybody correct my ideas to them?
Bus fair/charge/?
taxi fair/ charge/?
Subway fair/ charge/?
electric rate/charge/?
water rate/charge/?
hotel fair/charge/?
tuition fee/charge/?
(Tuition of university)
car repairing charge/?
laundering charge/?
gardening charge/?
(Employ a person to take charge of everything about the house gardening, like watering plants, cutting plant and so for.)
furnishing ?/charge
yoga ?/fee/chrge
(Money that you have to pay monthly for taking a yoga course.)
lift maintaining charge/?
cleaning fair/charge/?
(money that you have to pay to who clean your house)
Dormitory fair/charge/?
_____________ fair/charge/?
(If you are a student living in a dormitory.You need to pay for eating and drinking.)
Printing charge/?
(money that you have to pay your class tresurer for printing, including handouts. then teacher will get the money from him for printing anything.)
Class charge/?
(money that you have to pay your class for anything related to our class, like buying brooms, class decorating,printing handouts and so on.)
insurance charge/?
___________ __________
(money that you have to pay for lending a house/shop from others)
monthly telephone charge/?
traveling fair/charge/?/expenditure(AmE)
travelling fair/charge/expenditure/?(BrE)
Book fair/charge/?
(money that you spend on books every month?

transpotation fair/charge/?
(money that you need to pay for sending goods.)
transpotation fair/charge/?
(money that you have to pay for taking bus/taxi to school/work)
Many thanks in advance,
  

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Hi, Somebody will comment and give you the most natural collocations, I am sure. g. "bus fare ").

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Hi,

Somebody will comment and give you the most natural collocations, I am sure.

I only wanted to point out that you don't want "fair", but "fare" (e.g. "bus fare").
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Hi,

Here are some general comments.



fare - usually just used for the cost of being taken from one place to another.

charge/cost/price - can be used in talking about almost anything.

price and cost - used to talk about things that are sold

fee - for professional services provided, eg tuition, accounting, lawyer
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Thank you very much,
But I still have something unsure.

(1) Bus fare/charge
(2) Bus cost/prize
The first two means how much we should pay to take a bus.
The last two means how much we should pay to buy a bus.
Any of the six words above can be used in the two examples?

(1) Taxi fare/charge/rate
(2) Taxi cost/prize
The first two means how much w
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Hi,

(1) Bus fare/charge 'Fare' is the usual term.
(2) Bus cost/prize price <<<<<<
The first two means how much we should pay to take a bus. Yes
The last two means how much we should pay to buy a bus. Yes, although in context they could also mean the fare.
Any of the six words above can be used in the two examples?

(1) Taxi fare/char
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Thanks,
but please let me confirm my understanding to your reply.
When we want to express how much we should pay to buy a bus we can only say,
Bus price/cost
When we want to express how much we should pay to take a bus we can only say,
Bus price/cost/fare/charge
but bus fair is most idiomatic one.
we can use cost/charge and price because they can be used almost everyw
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Hi,

but please let me confirm my understanding to your reply.

When we want to express how much we should pay to buy a bus we can only say,

Bus price/cost Yes. I'd hesitate to say 'only', as there are a lot of words in the language.



When we want to express how much we should pay to take a bus we can only say,

Bus price/cost/fare/charge
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Thanks you very much,

How about these?

monthly water rate/charge/cost/price
I think cost and price here sound unnatural,but I am not sure.

monthly electric rate/rate/cost/price

I think cost and price here sound unnatural,but I am not sure.

hotel charge
I think cost and price should not be used here, because we doesn't buy the room.but I am not
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Here is another problem!
Lift maintaining maintenance fee/rate/charge
I really don't know how to decide when I should use gerund and when I use noun.
Could anybody help me with it?
Many thanks in advance.
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Hi,

How about these?

monthly water rate/charge/cost/price

I think cost and price here sound unnatural,but I am not sure.

Yes. I speak of 'my bill',

eg Canada has cold winters, so my gas bill is high in the winter and low in the summer.



monthly electric rate/rate/cost/price
I think cost and price here sound unnatural,but I am not
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Hi,

Here is another problem!

Lift maintaining maintenance fee/rate/charge

I really don't know how to decide when I should use gerund and when I use noun.

Could anybody help me with it?

I think a general rule probably is to use the noun in this context if the verb in question has a noun form as well as a gerund. Perhaps the context also nee
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