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Nov 30, 2014 · Nov 30, 2014. #3. The most idiomatic expression here would be "punish them". Notwithstanding the absence of "give" from the Oxford Collocations Dictionary, it is acceptable to use it, especially if you are contrasting "give a reward" and "give a punishment". It is slightly simplistic / childlike compared to the suggestions in post #2.
Oct 3, 2007 · Oct 3, 2007. #1. Teachers should try to find out before they hand out a punishment. They should try ahead of time to get to know their pupils. According to an online dictionary, "hand out" means to give or distribute; pass out: People were handing out leaflets on every corner. I think "hand out" used in my example and the one used in the online ...
Jan 28, 2011 · Jan 28, 2011. #2. You'll want the plural (punishments), but this a more natural way to express the idea without repeating "punish": There are many ways to punish people.
Sep 8, 2015 · English - US. Sep 7, 2015. #3. The posture is called "murga", and according to Wikipedia, it's a traditional punishment that has been used in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. It is not used—and to the best of my knowledge has never been used—in the Western world and, as Joan says, there is no English word for it.
Apr 27, 2022 · What is another idiomatic word I can use in place of increase/increasing when talking about increasing punishment or penalties? For example Schools should increase punishment to stop students from cheating. Increasing penalties will stop students from misbehaving including cheating. (source: myself) Will strengthen, toughen, stiffen, or ...
Apr 20, 2017 · Senior Member. chinois. Apr 20, 2017. #1. Hi, Please help me to understand the sentence below : "Making the punishment fit the crime is a useful notion, which would see children being made to pick up rubbish they have dropped, clean up graffiti they have drawn, or apologise to someone they have hurt." Source : Cambridge IELTS Book 10.
Dec 8, 2013 · Dec 8, 2013. #8. I've found two relevant examples of 'put someone on punishment' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English: Phil Sibley and Carey Pine, both seven years old. Left home on their bicycles May 8, 1993, at approximately five p.m. Phil's mother saw them ride away from her front window, not knowing that Carey had been put on ...
Jun 10, 2022 · English - US. Jun 10, 2022. #2. "Escaped punishment" means that the suspect received no punishment, perhaps because he was acquitted. "Escaped from punishment," if we used it at all, would mean that he escaped while being punished. H.
Aug 19, 2004 · Grounding specifically means to keep them inside the house, although it is a form of punishment. As a punishment, a parent can: Take away the use of television. Take away the use of phone. Send child to bed early. Ground child. I posted the same message in another forum: Can I use the form ground if is present form and grounded if is a past ...
Apr 21, 2011 · English - Ireland. Apr 22, 2011. #3. Take punishment, not give. A possible context: a rugby player goes to tackle a big fat forward (I'm a back, so allowed to be denigrating about forwards...) and comes off second best in the collision. A few minutes later, he goes to tackle the same big forward and again gets trampled.
