Ex.1.8. What is your personal understanding of the words RULE, REGULATION, LAW. Is there any difference in the meaning? Read and note the following information. Consult a dictionary and write out the expressions or sentences with these words.

1) RULE – an instruction that says what people are allowed to do or not allowed to do (in a game, in a school or organization); a usual or customary course of behaviour. Rule is not so official as regulation. They may or may not be written down. It may be in informal agreement about doing something.

E.g. It says in the rules that every child has to wear school uniform.

2) REGULATION – an official rule made by a government (or organization), which is part of a set of rules. Regulations are usually adopted by officials or authorities and written down. They are to control conduct of people or quality of things. For example, army regulations say what soldiers must or must not do. Planning regulations control process of house building.

E.g.: The new regulations are very strict about what you can and cannot bring into the country.

3) LAW– an official rule that all the citizens of a country must obey; also a code of behaviour or ethics. Laws are written down and enforced among all members of a state. They also define criminal and non-criminal cases.