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Used with adjectives:
"
He fell asleep on the bare floor."
(bare, cold, hard)
"
She cleaned the dirty floors."
(dirty, dusty)
"
Be careful on the wet floors."
(wet, clean, waxed, mopped)
"
The room has cement floors."
(cement, concrete, stone, hardwood, wood, wooden, carpeted, marble, tiled, linoleum)
"
She needs to clean the kitchen floor."
(kitchen, bathroom)
"
I'll meet you on the dance floor."
(dance)
"
She lives on the first floor of the building."
(first, bottom, ground, top)
"
His office is on the second floor."
(second, third, fourth, fifth) *many additional numbers
"
She always gets a room on the upper floor of the hotel."
(lower, upper)
Used with verbs:
"
They cleaned the floors before the party."
(cleaned, mopped,, polished, scrubbed, swept, washed, waxed)
"
The book dropped to the floor."
(dropped to, fell to, hit)
"
Make sure that doesn't touch the floor."
(touch, reach)
"
He paced the floor."
(paced)
"
Trash littered her floor."
(littered, covered)
"
Their offices occupy three floors in the building."
(occupy)
Used with nouns:
"
They went shopping for new floor coverings."
(coverings, tiles, lamps)
"
The floor space in here is limited."
(space)
"
They looked at the floor plan for the new business."
(plan)
Used with prepositions:
"
You can just put that on the floor."
(on)
