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Language Summary 11
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- Collocations (3) 11A p86 Ill) Crime (2) 118 p88

have a car accident check your bank account verb criminal crime
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book a holiday transfer money to someone's account rob robber robbery
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get paid have an operation -
steal thief /8i:f I theft
give someone a call lose your job • • •
• burgle burglar burglary
get a message
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murder murderer murder
a bank account where you keep your money in a bank: I need verb I was robbed outside the
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to check my bank account. . station last night.
transfer money move money electronically from one account
to another: I've just transferred £1,000 to your bank account. criminal The robber ran away.
have an operation when a doctor cuts open your body to
crime There was a robbery at
take out or repair something: He's had an operation on his foot.
the station.
TIP• We can say give someone a call or give someone a ring. TIP • The plural of thief is thieves / Si:vz/.

111J Crime (1) 118 p88
g. Guessing meaning from
• Rob, steal and burgle all mean 'take something that isn't yours'. We use them
context 11C p91
with different objects in a sentence.
• Sometimes you can guess the meaning
• You rob people and banks, but not money or things: I was robbed on the way
of a word by:
home last night.
a knowing a similar word in your
• You steal money and things, but not people or banks: Look! That man is stealing
language or another language you
your earl know.

• You burgle houses and flats, but not banks or cars: Our flat was burgled twice b knowing what type of word it is
last year. www.english0905.com (noun, verb, adjective, etc.).
• If you murder someone, you kill him/her deliberately: Do the police think he was c understanding the general meaning
murdered? of the text and the rest of the
• sentence .
• If you break into a building or a car, you enter it by breaking something (e.g. a
window, a lock, etc.): Last week someone broke into our house and stole our TV. 1 goods (plural noun) things you can buy
or sell: The burglars stole about $5,000
• You put bullets in a gun: Does that gun have any bullets in it?
worth of electronic goods.
• You use a gun to shoot people, animals or things: A policeman was shot in the leg. 2 contacted (regular verb) talked to,
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• If a crime happens to you, you are a victim: The victim is still in hospital. wrote to or texted: Nine days later, a
friend contacted Kait.
• If the police think you stole something or murdered someone, you are a suspect:
Are the police saying that the driver is a suspect? 3 logged onto (regular verb) connected
to: His computer showed that she was
• If the police arrest you, they catch you and take you to the police station for
logged onto the internet.
questioning: Three people were arrested.
4 remote (adjective) far away: She could
TIPS• You can also say I was burgled. to mean My house/flat was burgled. access the camera in her laptop using
• Steal, break (into) and shoot are irregular verbs. See the Irregular Verb List, p167. remote technology.
• We often use 'crime verbs' in the passive: My car was stolen. My sister's house was 5 realised (regular verb) suddenly
understood: She took photos of the
burgled. Three people were shot. A man was arrested.
men before they realised what was
• We often use the verb commit with the word crime: Have you ever committed a crime?
happening.
6 recognised (regular verb) knew
someone by his/her face: One of her
roommates recognised the men.
7 property (uncountable noun) things
you own: The police found nearly all of
the stolen property in their apartment.
a smart (adjective) clever, intelligent:
He's robbing He's stealing a bag. He's burgling He's breaking It was definitely a very smart use of
a bank. a house. into a car. the technology.
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