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Grammar
Help with this 'room', please!
Hello
I have recently been asked a question for an examination paper which will help me gain a teaching qualification.
The question of concern is:
Is ‘room’ in these sentences one word or two? Are there any teaching implications?
This room is quite small, we could use it as the office.
There’s not enough room in the case for your dressing gown.
Anybody got any ideas, please?
Thanks
Online
I have recently been asked a question for an examination paper which will help me gain a teaching qualification.
The question of concern is:
Is ‘room’ in these sentences one word or two? Are there any teaching implications?
This room is quite small, we could use it as the office.
There’s not enough room in the case for your dressing gown.
Anybody got any ideas, please?
Thanks
Online
Top answer
" --> Here, room means chamber, accomodation, a special room within a house or an apartment. There’s not enough room in the case for your dressing gown. --> Here, room carries the meaning of space.
- " --> Here, room means chamber, accomodation, a special room within a house or an apartment.
- There’s not enough room in the case for your dressing gown.
- --> Here, room carries the meaning of space.
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"Room" has two different meanings:
"This room is quite small, we could use it as the office."
--> Here, room means chamber, accomodation, a special room within a house or an apartment.
There’s not enough room in the case for your dressing gown.
--> Here, room carries the meaning of space.
"This room is quite small, we could use it as the office."
--> Here, room means chamber, accomodation, a special room within a house or an apartment.
There’s not enough room in the case for your dressing gown.
--> Here, room carries the meaning of space.
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I suggest that you submit this word to an online dictionary. It will provide its different meanings. Compare the meanings with the context of the words in order to determine if they do or do not mean the same thing.
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Perhaps the main difference is that 'room' is used as a countable noun in the first example, and as a mass noun in the second.
In the first sentence you can talk about 'the room', 'one room', 'two rooms', etc. In the second, you can't; there is 'little room', 'no room' at all, 'enough room', etc.
Miriam
In the first sentence you can talk about 'the room', 'one room', 'two rooms', etc. In the second, you can't; there is 'little room', 'no room' at all, 'enough room', etc.
Miriam
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