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Road is used for both town and country.
Cars can park on both sides of our road.
There’s a narrow winding road from our village to the next one.
(NOT ... @nerrewwinding street ...).

Note that, in street names, we stress the word Road, but the word before
Street.
Marylebone 'Road. ‘Oxford Street.

288 the same

We always use the before same.
Give me the same again, please.
(NOT Give me same-again,please-)
! want the same shirt as my friena’s.
my
(NOT +wantesame-shittitke frend)
We use the same as before a noun or pronoun.
Her hair's the same colour as her mother's.
(NOT ... the-same-cofourtike-hermethers-)
We use the same that before a clause.
That’s the same man that asked me for money yesterday.

289 say and tell
Tell means ‘inform’ or ‘order’. After tell, we usually say who is told: a
personal object is necessary.

She told me that she would be late. (NOT Ghetoldthatshe ...)
/ told the children to go away.
Say is usually used without a personal object.
She said that she would be late. (NOT Ske-saidime ...)
lf we want to put a personal object after say, we use fo.
She said ‘Go away’ to the children.

Say often used before direct speech. Tel/is not.
is
She said ‘Go away’. (NOT Shetetd-Ge-away,)

In a few expressions, we use fe// without a personal object. The most
common: tell the truth, tell a lie, tell the time (= know how to read a
clock).
! don't think she’s telling the truth. (NOT ... Saying-the-truth-)
He’s seven years old and he still can't tell the time.