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# 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!*