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parent - use in sentences
Converse of object
- bereave: Medical experts have claimed that bereaved parents who have recently lost a child are at a greater risk of suicide.
- inform: It follows that there is a need to educate and inform parents about what is intended by this work.
- encourage: Another option is a campaign to encourage parents to seek help.
- advise: ACE strongly advises parents to get free copies of the circulars, either from the NAW by ringing 029 2082 1556.
- divorce: His life made a turn for the worst when his parents divorced at the age of eleven.
- help: This is to help the parent identify their chicks in the gloomy light of the nest box.
Adjective modifier
- lone: Some offer lower rates for a second child or for lone parents.
- non-resident: How often a child sees the non-resident parents is now an issue of contact.
- adoptive: Both her birth parents and her adoptive parents have died.
- foster: Many breeders today, use Bengalese Finches as foster parents.
- teenage: The primary role of local co-ordinators is to be local champions for action and services to prevent teenage pregnancy and to support teenage parents.
- single: I'm a single parent of 3 boys to.
Modifies a noun
- governor: Academies have fewer parent governors than the community schools they may replace.
- helper: A very big thank you to all our team members and parent helpers.
- company: Find out more about British Gas and its parent company, Centrica.
Noun used with modifier
- birth: Both her birth parents and her adoptive parents have died.
- refugee: Tackle racism A school and its surrounding area need to be a safe place for refugee parents and pupils to come.
Possessives
- divorce: Their conditions are reportedly also the cause of their parents ' divorce.
Preposition: of
- child: Parents of children in Year 3 of St. Mary's school will receive a letter giving details.
- pupil: The taxpayers and the parents of independent school pupils spend serious money on it.
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