Home & living
house rules
rules for a particular home or group
House rules are rules that people are expected to follow in a particular home or group.
Hear it in real life
Can I bring my dog into the flat?
I'm afraid that's against the house rules.
Our main house rules are no shoes indoors and no phones during dinner.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We have house's rules about shoes.
Say: We have house rules about shoes.
"House rules" is a fixed plural phrase, so it does not need an apostrophe.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
house rules; follow the house rules
Your turn: say it out loud
Our main house rules are no shoes indoors and no phones during dinner.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
house rules
rules for a particular home or group
“Our main house rules are no shoes indoors and no phones during dinner.”
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