New places can bring new friendships.

The idea

Make friends means to form friendships. Use with before the people you become friends with.

Examples

  • Maya made friends with her new neighbors.
  • I hope to make friends at my new school.
  • The children made friends during the summer camp.
  • You can make friends by joining a sports club.
  • It takes time to make friends in a different city.
  • Our grandfather makes friends easily on his travels.

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Watch out

Avoid do friends: the natural combination is make friends.

Try it yourself

  1. Choose the missing word. Sam wants to ___ friends in the class. (make / do)

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    make

    make follows to in the base form.

  2. Choose the missing word. We ___ friends on the train yesterday. (made / make)

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    made

    made matches the finished time yesterday.

  3. Choose the missing word. They made friends ___ people from the village. (with / to)

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    with

    with introduces the people who become friends.

Use it today

Describe where you would like to make friends.