Meaning & use
cottage with thatched roof
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Meaning
phrasefixed phrase
A small house, usually in the countryside, whose roof is covered with dried straw or reeds.
Grammar: Used as a noun phrase; often appears after 'a' or 'the' and can be modified by adjectives.
Patterns
- a cottage with a thatched roof
- live in a cottage with a thatched roof
They spent their holiday in a cottage with a thatched roof near the coast.
The old cottage with a thatched roof needed a new roof every twenty years.
We photographed a pretty cottage with a thatched roof beside the river.
Common combinations
- thatched cottage
- The village is full of thatched cottages.
- cottage with a red roof
- They bought a cottage with a red roof in the hills.
- thatched roof
- The thatched roof kept the house cool in summer.
- country cottage
- We rented a country cottage for the weekend.
Synonyms and how they differ
- thatched cottage
- A more common and shorter way to say the same thing; it is the usual term in British English.
Word family
Commonly confused: cottage with thatched roof or cottage with thatch roof?
cottage with thatched roof vs cottage with thatch roof
The correct phrase uses 'thatched' (adjective) or 'a thatched roof', not 'thatch roof'.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase correctly?
Choose one answer.
The phrase needs the article 'a' before 'thatched roof' because 'roof' is a singular countable noun. Option An is missing the article, and options C and D use the wrong form of the word.
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