Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Lesson 240--Collocations with "favour"


 
 
An interesting word came up in class today and I thought I would share it with you.  Someone asked me about the word favour.    So I present to you some different uses of the word favour.


1.  Do me a favour.

we use this one to ask people to help us or do something for us.
 
Could you do me a favour?

2.  in favour of

we use this to explain that we support something.
 
I am in favour of a complete ban on smoking.
Marcia was not in favour of a school dress code.

 3. in favour with + somebody/someone

      out of favour with + somebody/someone

we use this to explain that someone is seen positively by someone else

Jason was not in favour with the team owner and decided to quit.
Jason had fallen out of favour with the team owner and decided to quit.

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