Marriage
#FoodForThought
❓1. What do you think of marriage? Why do people get married?
❓2. Is it necessary to marry at all? Why?
❓3. How has marriage changed from past to present in your country?
❓4. Do you think getting married means giving up freedom?
❓5. What is the best age for marriage in your country?
❓6. What are polygamy, monogamy, and bigamy? What do you think about them?
❓7. What do you think about these sentences? How do you interpret them? Do you
think they are true?
‼️Marriage is when a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gets her master degree.
‼️Husband is the head of the family and wife is the neck that turns the head around.
‼️A marriage license is a license which allows a woman to drive a man.
‼️When I married Ms. Right, I didn’t know her first name was “ALWAYS”.
‼️Why are wives more dangerous than the mafia? The mafia wants either your life or money….Wives want both.
‼️My wife and I always compromise, I admit I’m wrong and she agrees with me.
‼️The only moment that my wife listens to me is when I’m talking in my sleep.
‼️A woman worries about her future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about his future until he gets a wife.
‼️The only mistake for which people are congratulated is marriage.
#Repository
🌀Dowry: property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage:
Belinda's dowry included an acre of fertile pasture and two young mules.
🌀Love affair: a romantic or sexual relationship between two people, especially one that is outside marriage:
The tabloids feel obliged to keep us informed of the love affairs of celebrities, whether we care to know or not.
🌀Newlywed: a recently married person:
The Parliament Speaker also congratulated the newlywed couples, wishing them a happy married life.
🌀Prenuptial agreement: an agreement made by a couple before they marry concerning the ownership of their respective assets should the marriage fail:
With January being the peak time for divorce, and one in three couples getting divorced in the UK, the divorce laws need to be clarified, in particular prenuptial agreements.
#Juxtapositions 1/2
❇️Marriage:
🔰Adjectives:
Good, happy, successful, broken, disastrous, failed, unhappy, first, second, previous, early, late, modern, conventional, traditional, interracial, mixed, heterosexual, straight, open, monogamous, polygamous, loveless, childless, arranged, forced
🔅e.g.:
She was the child of a broken marriage.
🔰Verbs:
—- + Marriage
Have, propose, enter into, save, legalize, recognize, ban, forbid, prohibit
Marriage + —-
Last, be over, break down, break up, end, fail, fall apart
🔅e.g.:
He had an unhappy marriage with an older woman.
They are struggling to save their marriage for the children's sake.
Same-sex marriages are recognized in some countries already.
Their marriage ended in divorce.
🔰Nouns:
Vows, plans, proposal, partner, relationship, break-up, breakdown, problems, counseling, counselor, market, bed
🔅e.g.:
More divorced people have joined the marriage market.
🔰Propositions:
By a marriage, from a marriage, by marriage, in a/the marriage, outside marriage, within marriage, marriage between, marriage into, marriage to, marriage with
🔅e.g.:
She's his daughter by a previous marriage.
They are related by marriage.
She was the dominant partner in the marriage.
His marriage into a wealthy family was one chance he got.
Her marriage to Jim didn’t go well.
🔰Phrases:
The break-up of a marriage, the breakdown of a marriage, the institution of marriage, a marriage of convenience, a proposal of marriage
#Juxtapositions 2/2
❇️Marriage:
🔰Adjectives:
Christian, Jewish, civil, shotgun
🔰Verbs:
—- + Marriage
Celebrate
Marriage + —-
Be held, take place
🔅e.g.:
The marriage was celebrated in the cathedral.
🔰Nouns:
Ceremony, certificate, contract, license
🔰Prepositions:
At a/the marriage, marriage to
🔅e.g.:
She wanted to be present at the marriage of her grandson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wall invite you to the marriage of their daughter Ann to Mr. Thomas Lea.