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127 care: take care (of), care (about) and care for
1 take care of
Take care ofnormally means 'look after' or 'take responsibility for'.
Nurses take care o f people in hospital.
It's no good giving Peter a rabbit: he's too young to take care ofit properly. Ms Savage takes care o f marketing, and I'm responsible for production.
Take care (without a preposition) means 'be careful'. Some people use it as a formula when saying goodbye.
Take care when you're crossing the road, children. Bye, RIlth. - Bye, Mike. Take care.
2 care (about)
Care (about) is used to say whether you feel something is important to you. This is very common in negative sentences. About is used before an object, but is usually left out before a conjunction.
Most people care about other people's opinions.
(NOT ••• ttlke ettre ttf/ careJtJr 6ther pe6l'le's 6l'ini6ns)
I don't care whether it rains - I'm happy.
I'll never speak to you again. - I don't care.
Your mother's upset with you. - I couldn't care less. (= I don't care at all.)
3 care for
Care for can be used to mean 'look after'. He spent years caring for his sick mother.
Another meaning is 'like' or 'be fond of, but this is not very common in modem English.
I don't much care for strawberries.
128 changes: become, get, go, grow, etc
Become, get, go, come, grow and turn can all be used with similar meanings to talk about changes. The differences between them are complicated - they depend partly on grammar, partly on meaning and partly on fixed usage.
1 become dark, become a pi/at etc
Become can be used before adjectives and noun phrases. It was becoming very dark.
What do you have to do to become a pilot?
Become is not usually used to talk about single deliberate actions. Please get ready now. (NOT .FlJettse hee6me reMf n61:t1.)
2 get dark, younger etc
Get (informal) is very common before adjectives (without nouns). It was getting very dark. (informal)
You get younger every day. (informal)
Get can also be used before past participles like lost, broken, dressed, married. They got married in 1986, and got divorced two years later. ~
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