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Grammar fix

school building

school facility

A structure where students go to attend classes and other school activities.

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Hear it in context

Notice where the phrase sounds natural.

  • The school building was renovated last year to make it safer for students.education
  • In my hometown, the school building is quite old, but it has a lot of character and history.IELTS speaking

Fix the pattern

Pattern: school building (noun)

WrongI go to school building every day.

RightI go to the school building every day. / I go to school every day.

'Go to school' (general) needs no article; 'the school building' (the structure) needs 'the'.

Patternschool building (noun)

Use it right

Choose the version that sounds natural in speech.

Stiff The educational establishment's edifice is over a century old.

Natural The school building is over a hundred years old.

'School building' is plain; 'educational establishment's edifice' is absurd.

Build natural chunks

Words that usually travel with it.

  • school building + context
    the school buildingold school buildingnew buildingmain building

Don't confuse it

'School' can mean the organization or the place, but 'school building' is only the physical structure.

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