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Radovan Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Trip vs. excursion

Hi everyone,

could you share your thoughts, please? In this sentence c) is correct. According to the key. And I went for c) as I am probably familiar with a collocation school trip. However, is a) wrong? In the Oxford English Dictionary the word trip is listed as a synonym for the word excursion. I don't know why excurison should be ruled out. Thanks.

I always enjoy our school _________ to France.

a) excursion

b) journey

c) trip

d) travel

  

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radovan I don't know why excurison should be ruled out. Nice school. We took a trip to the dairy farm down the road once.

— Anonymous

  • radovan I don't know why excurison should be ruled out.
  • Nice school.
  • We took a trip to the dairy farm down the road once.
  • Multiple-choice tests normally ask for the best answer, and that means that there is likely to be more than one good answer.
  • "Excursion" is possible, but it would sound odd.
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radovanI don't know why excurison should be ruled out.

Nice school. We took a trip to the dairy farm down the road once.

Multiple-choice tests normally ask for the best answer, and that means that there is likely to be more than one good answer. "Excursion" is possible, but it would sound odd. The collocation "school trip" is ironclad, at least in my

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Excursion is usually used for a short trip to a local attraction. It is a day trip.

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