Re: what do you prefere to say inside?..
navigator wrote:1) Can say about the icy place that we play on hockey or skating an ice pond?! because the collocation for all here I think is a rink.
A pond is typically an outdoor small body of water. Hockey is rarely played professionally on one anymore.
A rink is an indoor ice surface made specifically for the purpose of ice sports. It has a regular shape (rectangle with curved corners) and a maintained smooth surface.
navigator wrote:2) What expressions do you often use or prefere in these sentences:
* He ran into the man
He bumped into the man
Funny case here. Both could mean that he simply met the man. As in "I bumped into Jane at the mall today." No collision is involved.
But if you're talking about some form of collision I take 'bumped' to mean a collision of lesser severity than 'ran' in most cases. 'ran' implies higher speed.
navigator wrote:* The policeman chased the criminal.
The policeman chased after the criminal.
Both are just fine.
navigator wrote:* The boy was runing because he was startled.
The boy was runing because he was winced.
A wince is a facial expression.
navigator wrote:* The train was moving a long the track.
The train was moving a long the tracks.
The train was moving on the tracks.
Use 'along' not 'a long', and 'on' is fine in place of 'along'. And the tracks would be more accurate, but either would be clear enough to get the point across.
navigator wrote:* He is walking on the street.
He is walking down the street.
If I heard the second I would assume some guy is walking down either the sidewalk or the street itself. Pretty much normal.
However if you said "He is walking on the street" I would assume he is specifically walking on the street not the sidewalk.
Both are correct, but one sounds more specific.
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