- favor
- 01. Could you do me a [favor], and drop this letter in the mail for me?02. What is your [favorite] kind of music?03. The movie has received [favorable] reviews from all the major newspapers.04. The governor's new tax initiatives are certain to find [favor] with the business community.05. Could you do me a [favor], and feed our cat while we're in Boise for the weekend?06. Gertrude exchanged sexual [favors] for a high-paying position in the company.07. Russia is said to [favor] a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Yugoslavia.08. One of the salesmen claims that the boss [favors] his nephew, and gives him all the best clients.09. Barbara Ehrenreich once noted that natural selection, as it has operated in human history, [favors] not only the clever, but the murderous.10. Cats were the [favorite] animal of the prophet Mohammed.11. A [favorite] dish of the Aztecs was roast turkey with chocolate gravy.12. Studies show that fingernails grow faster on the hand you [favor].13. The current President of the U.S. [favors] capital punishment, so the frequency of executions has increased since he got elected.14. According to legend, Denmark's flag dropped from the sky as a sign of God's [favor].15. In the days of the explorers, Tahitian girls exchanged sexual [favors] with sailors for nails, which could easily be bent into fish hooks.16. A Chinese proverb tells us, "Forget the [favors] you have given; remember those received."17. A Latin proverb states that fortune [favors] the bold, but abandons the timid.18. A Spanish proverb remarks that he who asks the fewest [favors] is the best received.19. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and [favorable] conditions of work, and to protection against unemployment.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.