Garden

Common expressions

  • work in the garden

  • dig the garden

  • a tidy garden

  • a overgrown garden

Exercises

Common expressions

  1. My mother gets a lot of satisfaction from working in the garden.

  2. It should be a tidy garden! He spends most of his life in it. I never see him!

  3. Digging the garden is hard work, but it’s also good exercise.

  4. The garden has been neglected all year and it’s now overgrown. The grass actually comes up to your waist.

Note

If you “do” the garden, you work in it:

Do you do the garden yourself or do you get someone to do it for you?