Loan, lend + borrow free vocabulary class
Personal finance is an important topic. Getting a loan is or lending someone money is a serious issue and you want to be accuarate. When talking about loans, it's easy to get the verbs lend and borrow confused. Here's the difference: If you borrow money, you get money from someone (you are usually supposed to give the money back later). If you lend money, you give money to someone (and you are usually supposed to get the money back). The act of giving money (lending) is called a loan.
Here's a dialogue about a car loan missing the noun loan and the verbs lend and borrow. Loan is sometimes used as a verb, but for the exercise below use lend as a verb and loan as a noun. Type the correct word into each box.
As I always say, the only way
to learn this stuff perfectly is to try it. You can tell us one of your stories on the English practice forums. The more you use English to communicate, the easier it will be to remember grammar and vocabulary!
It's better to tell us a story about lending or borrowing money. Don't go to the forums and ask for a loan!
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