road and street
1 the difference
A street is a road with houses on either side. We use street for roads in towns or villages, but not for country roads.
- Cars can park on both sides of the street.
- Our village has only got one street.
Road is used for both town and country.
- Cars can park on both sides of the road.
- The road out of our village goes up a steep hill. (Not
The street out of our village....)
2 street names: stress
In street names we normally stress the word Road, but the word before Street.
- Marylebone Road Oxford Street
city and town
Most people simply use city to talk about large and important towns - examples in the UK are Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and London.
City can be used in a more exact way to talk about a town that has been given a special status by the king or queen (in Britain) or by the state (in some other English-speaking countries).
