Saturday, 7 June 2014

Homonyms - Counter (As a Noun and a Verb)


1.    a type of table in a shop, bank, restaurant etc at which people are served.
·         There was nobody behind the counter (noun) when I walked into the convenience store. I waited nearly five minutes to be served.

2.    a flat surface in the kitchen used to prepare food.
·         We stacked all the dirty plates and bowls on the kitchen counter (noun) before Kelly put them into the dish washer.

3.    fight

·         The government tried in vain to counter (verb) the false claims of an impending water shortage.

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