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Originally Posted by Red5 One element of improving your vocabulary is learning which verbs go with which nouns - also called collocations. For example: Do you make or do a mess? Does he miss or lose an opportunity? Here is a series of collocation... Read more...
Source: English as 2nd Language English as 2nd Language |
I heard someone say "They give a lot of value to their families."
Isn't "They place a lot of value on their families." more like how it would normally be said?
I think so.
give value to - or - place value on |
Yes, it should be
place a lot of value on. I don't think the first one is even an English sentence.