/bʊk/
Translation
A set of printed pages joined together that you read.
Word origin
From Old English boc, perhaps linked to the beech tree, on whose wood early writing may have been cut.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- boc
Grammar
Examples
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"Book" means the set of pages you read.
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"Books" is the plural, meaning more than one book.
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Here "book" points to one object you can pick up.
Used in
Stories
(11)A Day Together
2 min read · Core 1000
Market Day
3 min read · Core 1000
The Journey
3 min read · Core 1000
The New Neighbour
3 min read · Core 1000
The Phone Call
3 min read · Core 1000
The Passenger
4 min read · Core 5000
Not in Front of Them
5 min read · Core 1000
The First Letter
5 min read · Core 5000
The Night Route
5 min read · Core 5000
The Register
5 min read · Core 5000
Two Tickets to Paris
5 min read · Core 5000
Grammar articles
(18)Articles in English: a, an, the and the zero article
Both, either and neither in English: the two-of-something words, agreement traps, and Me neither
Causative have and get in English: have something done, get something done and having someone do it
Comparatives and superlatives in English: the complete guide
Countable and uncountable nouns in English: advice, information, news and the ones you simply have to learn
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
Modals of deduction in English: must be, might be, could be and can't be
Nominalisation in English: arrive becomes arrival, decide becomes decision, and why written English turns actions into things
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
Past modals in English: should have, could have, must have and might have
Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained
Present perfect continuous: have been doing, and how it differs from the present perfect
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
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