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#COLLOCATIONS ◼️Yard {noun} 💠 1- AmEthe area around a house, usually covered with grass ✨ ADJECTIVES ◾️ a back yard/ backyard 🍀It is more common to write backyard as one word. ◾️ a front yard ✨PREPOSITIONS ◾️ in the yard 🍀In British English, people say garden ✨yard + NOUNS ◾️ a yard sale (=a sale of used clothes and things from someone’s house which takes place in their yard) 💠2- an enclosed area next to a building or group of buildings, used for a special purpose, activity, or business ✨NOUNS + yard ◾️ a school yard/ schoolyard 🍀It is more common to write schoolyard as one word. ◾️ a prison yard ◾️ a timber yard (=where wood for building or making things is stored or sold) ◾️ a builder’s yard (=where materials for building are stored or sold) ◾️ a goods/ freight yard (=where goods can be loaded onto or unloaded from trains)