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# Gate

## Common expressions

* **open / shut** a gate
* leave the gate (wide) open
* the garden gate
* the factory gates
* the school gates

## Exercises

### Common expressions

1. The ***school*** gate open at 7.30 every morning, but most children don’t arrive till 8.30.
2. Someone had ***left*** the gate wide open and the sheep had managed to get out onto the main road.
3. While walking in the countryside, please remember to ***shut*** all gates behind you.
4. When the workers ***turned up*** this morning, the ***factory*** gates were closed.
5. Our ***garden*** gate leads out onto the open fields at the back of our house.