collocation · informal
grocery shopping
UK/ˈɡrəʊsəri ˈʃɒpɪŋ/US/ˈɡroʊsəri ˈʃɑːpɪŋ/GRO·ce·ry SHOP·ping
Band 6-7speaking
buying food and everyday household items, usually on a regular basis
Examples
“I usually do my grocery shopping on Sunday mornings.”
“We split the grocery shopping between us every week.”
“She prefers to do grocery shopping online.”
Band 8 sentence
“I usually do my grocery shopping on Sunday mornings when the market is less crowded, so I can pick the freshest produce.”
Collocations
- go grocery shopping
- do the grocery shopping
Word family
grocery nounshop / shop(ping) verb / nounshopper noun
Common mistakes
I need to go to grocery.→I need to go grocery shopping.
I'll do grocery.→I'll do the grocery shopping.
Say it for a higher band
5shopping→6go shopping→7+grocery shopping
Synonyms
do the shopping
Easily confused
grocery store
“She went to the grocery store to buy some milk.”
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