Movement can change an object’s position, your position or your home.
The idea
Use move with an object to change its position, or without one when something changes position. Move to can also introduce a new home. The past is moved.
Examples
- Please move the chair near the window.
- The cat moved under the table.
- We moved to a smaller house in May.
- Can you move this box for me?
- The clouds move slowly today.
- Her neighbours moved to another town.
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Moving a chair is not the same as moving house: the context shows the meaning.
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Choose the correct word. Please ___ the lamp onto the desk. (move / moved)
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move
move is the instruction to put the lamp elsewhere.
Choose the correct word. The bird ___ from the wall to the tree yesterday. (moved / moves)
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moved
moved describes the bird’s completed movement yesterday.
Choose the correct word. They will ___ to a new apartment next month. (move / moved)
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move
move follows will for the future relocation.
Practice round
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Choose the correct word. Please ___ the lamp onto the desk. (move / moved)
Choose the correct word. The bird ___ from the wall to the tree yesterday. (moved / moves)
Choose the correct word. They will ___ to a new apartment next month. (move / moved)
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Describe something you moved and a place someone moved to.