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Thẩm Tâm Vy, September 12th, 2020 ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS 17

ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS 17 back, rear The part of a building or a vehicle that is furthest from the front can be called either the back or the rear. Rear is often used in technical descriptions. For example, car manuals talk about the rear of a car. - He decided to approach the house from the rear instead of going to the front door. It is more usual to use back. For example, in ordinary conversation people talk about back of a car, not the ‘rear’. - ...in the back of the dark cab, with the lights of the city streaking past. - and Colonel von Tempelhofs at in the back. Both words are also used as adjectives. - There was a rear entrance into the post office. - ...a suitcase on the back seat. You use back to talk about the part of an object that is at the opposite end to the front. You do not use ‘rear’. - He pulled his cap down more warmly over his ears and the back of his head. - Mimi had Carter held by the back ofhis trousers. • Your back is the part ofyour body that is behind you, from your neck to your bottom. • Your rear is your bottom; this is a humorous use. bag, baggage, luggage Both British and American speakers can refer to everything that travellers carry as their bags. American speakers can also call any individual suitcase or similar item a bag. - ‘Let me carry those for you, ’ he said as I picked up the bags. - She got out on the sidewalk and the porter took her bags. - It was a fact that an airline passenger’s bag could not be counted on to arrive safely at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Speakers of British English normally use luggage when they are talking about everything that travellers carry. However, they sometimes use baggage when they are talking about travelling in a technical way, for example when discussing airports or travel insurance. - There are also coin-operated lockers in which you may leave luggage. - If you lose any ofyour luggage, enquire at once at the Lost Property Office. - Your baggage, clothing and personal effects are covered up to one thousand pounds. In American English, luggage refers to empty bags and suitcases. Baggage refers to bags and suitcases with theừ contents. - He pulls in behind an Audi with a Paris license, takes out his baggage, and locks the car. Note that there is no plural form of baggage or luggage.

bar, pub A bar is a place where you can buy alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. A bar can be part of a larger building such as a hotel or theatre, or in America it can be a separate building. - He called for the menu and ordered in the bar while they were finishing their drinks. - Willie paid for the drinks and they left the bar. - He eventually selected a small bar calling itself the Pussycat Go-go. A pub is a budding where you can buy alcoholic and non-alcoholic drỉnlcs. Most pubs are in Britain and Ireland. They often contain two or more bare and have an important role in the social life of the people nearby. Pubs are rarely found in America. - The Black Friar, lavishly appointed with Art Nouveau decoration,is the best pub of its kind in London. - We all met in the pub during the lunch break. Both pubs and bars have a counter where drinks are poured and this is also called a bar. - He ordered a whisky and drained it standing at the bar. briefly, shortly You use briefly to talk about things that happen for only a short period of time. For example, if you see someone briefly, you do not see them for very long. If you stay somewhere briefly, you stay there just for a short time. - The two men had met briefly once before. - Duke proposed to stay there briefly to rest his troops. If you explain something briefly, you use very few words or give ѵегy few details. - She told them briefly what had happened. - Stephanie wrote briefly and delicately to Mrs Orton, suggesting a visit. You use shortly and not ‘briefly’ to say when something happens, if something happens shortly after something else, it happens soon after it. - …