home‧work S2 /ˈhəʊmwɜːk $ ˈhoʊmwɜːrk/
noun [uncountable]1. work that a student at school is asked to do at home ⇒
classwork:
For homework, finish the exercise on page 14.2. if you do your homework, you prepare for an important activity by finding out information you need ⇒
research:
It’s worth doing a bit of homework before buying a computer.
GRAMMARHomework is an uncountable noun and has no plural form. Use a singular verb after it:
systems to ensure that homework is completed [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
homeworknoun1. 
BAD: In my opinion, women who go out to work don't have enough time to do the homework.
GOOD: In my opinion, women who go out to work don't have enough time to do the housework.
Usage Note:homework = work that a teacher gives a pupil to do at home
housework = all the jobs that have to be done regularly to keep a house or flat clean and tidy
2. BAD: Have you done your homeworks?
GOOD: Have you done your homework?
Usage Note:Homework is an uncountable noun: 'We're given a lot of homework at the weekend.'
3. BAD: Our teacher wanted to know why we hadn't made our homework.
GOOD: Our teacher wanted to know why we hadn't done our homework.
Usage Note:DO · HAVE · MAKE · TAKE Many phrases begin with a very common very such as
do, make, have, or
take : ‘I felt very nervous about
taking the
test but, after
having a long
talk with Mrs Fisher, I decided I would just
do my best and try not to
make too many silly
mistakes .’ These verbs can be combined with some nouns but not with others and since they do not have a clear meaning of their own, choosing the right combination can be a problem. Phrases which tend to cause difficulty are shown below.
HAVE have a bath (or esp. AmE
take )
‘She’s probably upstairs having a bath.’ Have (your) breakfast ‘We usually have breakfast in the kitchen.’ Have (your) dinner ‘We had dinner and then went for a walk.’ Have a drink ‘I’ll collapse if I don’t have a drink soon.’ Have (an) experience ‘He has no experience of running a large company.’ Have fun ‘You can’t stop people from having fun.’ Have a holiday ‘It’s almost a year since we had a real holiday.’ Have an interview ‘I’ve had six interviews but no one has offered me a job.’ Have a lesson ‘Every morning we have three fifty-minute lessons.’ Have (your) lunch ‘Isn’t it about time we had lunch?’ Have an operation ‘Before I had the operation I could hardly walk.’ Have a party ‘On Saturday we’re having a party.’ Have a picnic ‘If it’s sunny we could have a picnic.’ Have a shower (or esp. AmE take) ‘It only takes me a minute to have a shower.’ TAKE Take/do an examination ‘Why do we have to take so many tests?’ Take (your) medicine ‘Don’t forget to take your medicine.’ Take a pill ‘He refuses to take sleeping pills.’ Take/do a test ‘The last test I took was a disaster.’ MAKE Make an effort ‘I had to make a big effort not to laugh.’ Make a journey ‘It was the first journey he’d made all on his own.’ Make a mistake ‘He has made a serious mistake.’ Make a noise ‘How can one small child make so much noise?’ Make progress ‘I made very little progress at the start of the course.’ DO Do your best ‘Don’t worry, Tim. Just do your best.’ Do (or cause) damage ‘The storm did a lot of damage to the crops.’ Do an exercise ‘Have you done your exercises today?’ Do an experiment ‘To do this experiment, you’ll need two eggs.’ Do (sb) good ‘The holiday has done him a lot of good.’ Do harm ‘A scandal would do his reputation a lot of harm.’ Do your homework ‘Have you done your homework yet?’ Do a job ‘I’ve got one or two jobs to do this evening.’ Do the/some shopping ‘Jake has gone into town to do some shopping.’ Do research ‘We need to do a lot more research.’ Do things ‘We’ve done lots of different things today.’ Do your training ‘Where did you do your training?’ Note also:
do something/anything etc: ‘I can’t come now – I’m doing something.’ ‘He hasn’t done anything wrong.'
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