1000 English Collocations In10 Minutes A Day Lesson 30 Color

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Light or dark color

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Light brown or dark brown

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Bright

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If if a colour is very intense

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Pale

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If the colour is not very intense

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Shades of colour

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Variation of the specific colour

these words are usually typical object with the particle or colour for example the sky blue is a light shade of blue like the colour of the sky

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Ruby red

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Cherry red

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Fiery orange

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Burnt orange

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Lemon yellow

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Golden yellow

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Emerald green

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Olive green

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Sky blue

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Royal blue

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Navy blue / midnight blue

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Tinge

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when you have something that is primarily one colour but with a little bit of another colour included we can use the word think there are two ways to structure to sentence:

The flowers are yellow with a tinge of Pink in the middle

My cat's fur is lice grey with the slides burnish theme

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A colour + -ish

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You can't use this form a colour word plus it to describe mixes of colours. For example reddish-brown is a shade of brown videos trying protien of red, whereas yellowish Brown is a shade of brown with a strong protien of yellow.

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The colours match

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Some colours look good together in this case we can say that's the colours match.

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The colours clash

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Other colours look very well together in this case we can say that the colour clash.

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That colour sweets you / colour looks good on you.

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When the colour of a person's clothes looks good with that person a skin tone (colour of their skin) you can say that colour sweets you or that colour looks good on you.

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Paint

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We use the verb paint in mosque cases you paint a house and paint your nail.

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Dye

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But we use that word I for her and clothes / fabric so you dye your hair blonde and dye a shirt blue.