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work in English:

1. works works


He hardly works.
It doesn't make much sense to me that it works well on my computer, but not on yours.
We've tried every conceivable method, but absolutely nothing works.
This was a translation of copyrighted material, so I deleted it since copyright owners have the right to control derivative works.
The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
The mod wheel is broken on this synthesizer, but the pitch bend still works.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued.
Some people think that the works attributed to Shakespeare were written by somebody else.
He works at a scientific institute where linguists, literature scholars, historians, sociologists, economists, and other scholars investigate everything that has to do with gnomes.
Even now, the typical worker's whole life is still bound up with the company he works for.

English word "work"(works) occurs in sets:

czasowniki present simple wojtek
czasowniki present simple wojtek 2
Pronunciation ⭐

2. DO DO


I do the shopping.
The men had little to do except hunt for food.
Professional writers do not have a regular income.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
In most countries, teachers do not receive high wages.
Town criers used to tell people what they must do, according to the king's orders.
Maybe it's time to change my hair and do a makeover.
Since I have no children, I have more time to spend doing volunteer work than parents do.
Stop complaining and do as you're told.
If it's necessary to do so, I'll pay back my loan now.
The cones of the jack pine, for example, do not readily open to release their seeds until they have been subjected to great heat.
What should I do if I become depressed while studying abroad?
I'd like to get a bank loan; how do I go about that?
One thing I've always wanted to do is write a children's book.
She seems to be in trouble. Tell her what to do.

3. worked worked


She worked hard.
She would often bring home table scraps from the restaurant where she worked to feed to her dog.
The company I worked for was downsizing. Unfortunately, I lost my job.
Tom gave Mary a detailed explanation of how it worked.
Finding a solution that worked was a process of trial and error.
President Reagan's tax program has not worked.
Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who lived and worked in Calcutta, India.
From graduation to retirement, Laowang worked as a teacher without intermission.
At the end of his life, Hokusai lived in misery, alone with his daughter, and worked until his death.
This is the first time I've worked as a coordinator, so I may not have the hang of it yet.
After I got all worked up about ordering in English, I walked in the store and they greeted me with "Irasshaimase!" I felt, like, "What the ...?"
I'm sure people would live twice as long if they stopped getting themselves worked up over everything.
I have worked for one company where the payroll was snatched on a dark winter's night.
By 1969 the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over. An IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.
As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.

English word "work"(worked) occurs in sets:

prefixes and suffixes

4. do something for a living do something for a living



English word "work"(do something for a living) occurs in sets:

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