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Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Workplace


Today’s word: workplace

Pronunciation: /ˈwɜ:kpleιs/

Part of Speech: noun

Meaning: a particular place that you work

Usage: She must be at her workplace by now.

            My workplace is far away from my home.

Wrong Usage: She must be at her working place by now.

 She must be at her work place now.

Comment: You should avoid saying working place. It is incorrect. You should rather say workplace or place of work.

Note that work and place are written together in workplace.

5 comments:

  1. This is an error that is common to majority of employees in every places of work.

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  2. So technically all the english we have been speaking is wrong?

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  3. Wrong indeed.

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  4. BuckUp:please we are trying to corect our past errors and you adding to it. every place of work not every places of work.
    thank you

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  5. @OG: you 'are' adding to it. Not, you adding to it.. Fast fingers I guess.

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