{"id":13268,"date":"2026-04-01T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:39:17","slug":"collocations-with-say-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/archives\/13268","title":{"rendered":"Collocations with &#8216;say&#8217; &#038; &#8216;speak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13269\" src=\"http:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/say-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>say no to\u2026<\/strong> (\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043e\u0442 \/ \u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0442\u00bb)<br \/>\n<em>She decided to say no to unhealthy food. (\u041e\u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0435\u0448\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0442\u00bb \u043d\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u0435\u0434\u0435.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>say a word<\/strong> (\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u043e)<br \/>\n<em>He didn\u2019t say a word during the meeting. (\u041e\u043d \u043d\u0435 \u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0432\u043e \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u044f \u0432\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0447\u0438.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>generally speaking<\/strong> (\u0432\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435 \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f, \u0432 \u0446\u0435\u043b\u043e\u043c)<br \/>\n<em>Generally speaking, people prefer warm weather. (\u0412\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435 \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f, \u043b\u044e\u0434\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043f\u043e\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u044e\u0442 \u0442\u0451\u043f\u043b\u0443\u044e \u043f\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0443.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>strictly speaking<\/strong> (\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f)<br \/>\n<em>Strictly speaking, this rule does not apply here. (\u0421\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f, \u044d\u0442\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u043e \u0437\u0434\u0435\u0441\u044c \u043d\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043c\u0435\u043d\u044f\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>speak very highly about sb<\/strong> (\u043e\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0448\u043e \u043e\u0442\u0437\u044b\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c-\u0442\u043e)<br \/>\n<em>She speaks very highly about her mentor. (\u041e\u043d\u0430 \u043e\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0448\u043e \u043e\u0442\u0437\u044b\u0432\u0430\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043e \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0451\u043c \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0435.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>speak properly<\/strong> (\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u044c \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \/ \u0432\u0435\u0436\u043b\u0438\u0432\u043e)<br \/>\n<em>Children should learn to speak properly to adults. (\u0414\u0435\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u043d\u044b \u0443\u0447\u0438\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u0432\u0435\u0436\u043b\u0438\u0432\u043e \u0440\u0430\u0437\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441\u043e \u0432\u0437\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043b\u044b\u043c\u0438.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>say no to\u2026 (\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043e\u0442 \/ \u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0442\u00bb) She decided to say no to unhealthy food. (\u041e\u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0435\u0448\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0442\u00bb \u043d\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u0435\u0434\u0435.) say a word (\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u043e) He didn\u2019t say a word during the meeting. (\u041e\u043d \u043d\u0435 \u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/archives\/13268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1263,1256],"tags":[1266,22],"class_list":["post-13268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collocations","category-vocabulary-2","tag-a2","tag-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinaida-english.mamchenkov.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}