Housework, homework, work in fields, farms and factories.We were in the middle of that when he was called inside to do his homework and I was sent home.I'm sorry Gail, but Amber has to stay home and do her homework.There were two more open airs during the week and somewhere in between all this activity the children had homework to complete.Dave, have you done your French homework?.For homework, I'd like you to finish exercises 2 and 3 on page 24.COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘ make/write your homework’. phrases a piece of homework I still have one piece of homework left to do. NOUNS + homework biology/history/French etc homework The science homework was really hard. hand in your homework (=give homework you have done to your teacher ) He always hands his homework in on time. start/finish your homework You’re not going out until you’ve finished your homework. hand in your homework (=give it to the teacher ) You must hand in your homework by Friday. help somebody with their homework I often have to help her with her homework. COLLOCATIONS verbs do your homework Paul, have you done your homework? give (somebody) homework ( also set (somebody) homework British English ) The teacher gave them some homework to do by Monday. When talking about one essay or exercise that you have to do, you say a piece of homework : I just have one more piece of homework to do.Homework is always followed by a singular verb.✗ Don’t say: The teacher gave us a lot of homeworks. You say: The teacher gave us a lot of homework.

Homework is an uncountable noun and is not used in the plural.2 PREPARE if you do your homework, you prepare for an important activity by finding out information you need → research It’s worth doing a bit of homework before buying a computer. S2 noun 1 SES WORK THAT somebody DOES work that a student at school is asked to do at home → classwork For homework, finish the exercise on page 14.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: School homework home‧work / ˈhəʊmwɜːk $ ˈhoʊmwɜːrk /

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