Englishfor English speakers
attach
Verb
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If you attach mathx/math to mathy/math, you put mathx/math on mathy/math so that they will not come apart.
Warnings and instruction should be firmly attached to the container.
Attach the wire to the speaker with the red clip.
Look for spaces where the tire attaches to the rim.
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If you are attached to an office, department, location, etc. you work for that part of the organisation.
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If a quality such as importance is attached to something, people think the thing has that quality.
There was a great deal of importance attached to being well dressed.
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If something is attached to something else, there is a strong connection between them.
The promise of more money for the school is attached to better results from the students?
There is also something called ground rent, which is attached to these apartments.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.