Unit 3: English In A Minute
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Session 17
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4 ways to use 'contact'
Learn how to use 'contact'.
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Let’s learn some common uses of the word contact.
Firstly, contact can be used as a verb to mean 'speak or write to someone', often when someone wants to give or receive information.
The doctor contacted me this morning to tell me the results of my tests.
Contact can also be used as a noun to talk about speaking or writing to someone. As a noun, it's often used with other words such as in, lose or make.
In contact with means 'speak or meet regularly'. Make contact means 'try to speak or write to someone after finding where someone is', while lose contact means 'no longer communicate'.
Stay in contact when you go away.
Contact can also be used to refer to a person who can help or give you information in work or socially.
My contacts told me there's a job opening at the business.
Contact as a noun refers to people whose names, numbers, and/or email addresses you have stored on your mobile phone.
I’ll add you as a new contact on my phone.
Contact
Contact is a verb and means 'speak or write to someone' - often when someone wants to give or receive information.
- The doctor contacted me this morning to tell me the results of my tests.
- Please don't contact me with any more offers.
Contact can also be used as a noun to talk about speaking or writing to someone.
In contact with means 'speak or meet regularly'.
Make contact means 'try to speak or write to someone after finding where someone is'.
Lose contact means 'no longer communicate'.
- Stay in contact when you go away.
- After he left the city, I lost contact with him, but I'll try to make contact again if I find out his new address.
Contact refers to a person who can help or give you information in work or socially.
- I have a contact at the company. Her name is Debbie.
- My contacts told me there's a job opening at the business.
Contact as a noun refers to people whose names, numbers, and/or email addresses you have stored on your mobile phone. The list on your phone where you find this information is called contacts.
- I'll add you as a new contact on my phone.
- Look in my contacts. My brother's number is there.
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