# Carpet ## Verb + floor hoover the carpet vacuum the carpet lay a carpet ruin a carpet a carpet wears ## Exercises ### Verb + room 1. They're coming this morning to **lay** the new carpet in the living room. 2. I **ruined** the carpet in the living room when I dropped a tin of paint on it. 3. The bedroom carpet is starting to **wear** in places. We'll need to replace it soon. 4. Colin, if I clear up all the rubbish, would you **hoover** the carpet? ### Notes 1. Note this expression: *I swept the dirt under the carpet when my mother wasn't looking.* 2. You clean a carpet with a vacuum cleaner, sometimes called a Hoover: *How do you expect me to hoover the carpets with this ancient hoover? It must be 30 years old!* --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://james-ebook.gitbook.io/key-words-for-fluency/section-01-your-house/carpet.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.