I de inglés

	1	2	3	4	5	7
cases	-O	O	PO	2O	I	OI
TO CHARGE (to 2; for 3, 4)		✔️	✔️	✔️
TO COST		✔️		✔️		✔️
TO PAY (for something)	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️

2 Charge it to my account.
3 They charged me for the room. 
4 They charged me £75 for the room.

Charge means ‘record something as owing’ (as in sentence 2), and ‘ask to be paid’ (as in sentence 3 and 4). The
relationship between the three verbs is as follows.:
The shop/hotel charges the customer money for goods or services.
The goods or services cost the customer money.
The customer pays the shop/hotel money for the goods or services.

🌱 Noun: charge, price asked or paid.
Take into account also thse expressions: ‘To be in charge of’ (to be responsible for), and ‘Take
charge of (become responsible for).

2 It cost too much money.
4 The room cost me £75.
7 It cost me an effort to win the race. (we use the infinitive only with double object)

Cost usually means ‘have as a price’ (1 and 4).
Compare the examples given under charge with charge and pay.
🌱 Noun: cost, what something costs, – note ‘The cost of living’. But we normally speak
of»the price’ of an object.

1 Crime does not pay (it is not worth while).
2 Have you paid the bill?
3 Have you paid her (for her work)?
4 I paid them £80 for the room.
5 Did you pay to come in?
7 I paid them (a lot of money) to do the job.

Pay means to ‘give money for goods, work, etc.’. Compare the examples given under charge with charge and cost. Note the use of ‘for’ when referring to goods and services.
Pay exists with a number of common phrases: ‘pay a call on’, ‘pay a compliment to’, ‘pay attention to’, ‘pay a visit to’ someone.
We pay money into an account or a bank.
Nouns: pay, what you regularly earn; payment, an amount of money paid, the act of paying.
☣️ Problem: He paid me for the book. (NOT paid me the book)