Lesson 11, Exercise 1 - Study the Pictures Below ⇩ BEFORE Doing the Quiz!
1-Watch the video, 2-Look at all the pictures BEFORE
doing the quiz, 3-Read, 4-Do the quiz and tap on Check.
What is your marital status? Are you
married? cohabitating? single?
separated? divorced? widowed?
Vocabulary: married (adjective): The defintion of married WAS the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife, but now it is different.
As of December 2022, same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 US states and in 39 other countries. The Netherlands was the first, in 2001.
Perhaps the simplest definition of marriage now is "The legal union of 2 people". 1 - married:

2 - cohabitating adjective
verb: cohabit
To live together when not married.
3 - single adjective and noun
Not married.

4 - separated adjective
Married, but not living together.

5 - divorced adjective
The legal dissolution (end) of a marriage.

6 - widow noun
This woman's husband died. She has not remarried.
6b - widower noun
This man's wife died. He has not remarried.
Vocabulary: married (adjective): The defintion of married WAS the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife, but now it is different.
As of December 2022, same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 US states and in 39 other countries. The Netherlands was the first, in 2001.
Perhaps the simplest definition of marriage now is "The legal union of 2 people". 1 - married:

2 - cohabitating adjective
verb: cohabit
To live together when not married.

3 - single adjective and noun
Not married.

4 - separated adjective
Married, but not living together.
5 - divorced adjective
The legal dissolution (end) of a marriage.

6 - widow noun
This woman's husband died. She has not remarried.

6b - widower noun
This man's wife died. He has not remarried.
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