Hotmale Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Mend/repair
Hello,
I'd like to ask you, which is more common, especially in BrE:
to mend or to repair a roof, to mend or to repair a light?
Thank you
I'd like to ask you, which is more common, especially in BrE:
to mend or to repair a roof, to mend or to repair a light?
Thank you
Top answer
(Note I'm an American, but I did live in England for a year) I'd use repair in both cases. I'd only use mend in reference to healing the body (ex. mending a wound), or in an abstract sense (mend a bad situation).
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(Note I'm an American, but I did live in England for a year)
I'd use repair in both cases. I'd only use mend in reference to healing the body (ex. mending a wound), or in an abstract sense (mend a bad situation). I don't remember it being used any differently in England.
Hope this helps.
- Mark
I'd use repair in both cases. I'd only use mend in reference to healing the body (ex. mending a wound), or in an abstract sense (mend a bad situation). I don't remember it being used any differently in England.
Hope this helps.
- Mark
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Thank you, Clive. I'm wondering, of these three: fix, mend, repair, which is your first choice for the light?
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