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The man took his wife with him.

The man took his woman with him.

In English, these two words are carefully distinguished: wife is the woman in a marriage. Both husbands and wives can be referred to as partners.

Our travel to Wales was lovely.

Our journey to Wales was lovely.

Travel is a verb, used to describe any type of movement from one place to another. Journey is the noun, but we also use (take a) trip for having a short journey: We took a trip to the seaside last Sunday. We also use travelling as a noun: Jim lows travelling. We use a possessive pronoun with travels as an idiom: Jenny is off on her travels again.

We use the noun travel in a general sense: She loves travel; in the plural: He has written a book about his travels.

Is there room for me on the bus?

Is there place for me on the bus?

Don't use place in the sense of room, which means here unoccupied space.

What's the price of this watch?

What's the cost of this watch?

Price is the amount of money paid by the customer. Cost is the amount paid by the shopkeeper. We can say How much does it cost?

Value is the usefulness or importance of something. The value of milk as a food, the value of education. Face value is the amount printed on a piece of-paper-money or on a postage stamp.

When I entered the room, I saw a book on the ground.

When I entered the room, I saw a book on the floor.

The floor is the part of the room on which we walk. The ground is outside the house.

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