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A daily dose of new English words, grammar and phrases to speak fluently. Bot: @EnglishTipsandTools_bot
✳️“Emigrate” goes with *from*.
✳️“Immigrate” goes with *to*.
Jessica *emigrated from* America. 🇺🇸
She *immigrated to* South Korea. 🇰🇷
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Annual - 1 year
Biennial - 2 years
Triennial - 3 years
Quadrennial - 4 years
Quinquennial - 5 years
Sexennial - 6 years
Septennial - 7 years
Octennial - 8 years
Novennial - 9 years
Decennial - 10 years
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So far = up to now; to a limited extent: So far, I’ve read only one page. 📖
By far = to a great degree: She is the fairest by far. 👸🍎
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✳️Improve = make or become better
✳️Improvise = perform without preparation
The band *improved* its live shows by learning to *improvise*.
👩🎤😎🎸
💥EXCEPTIONABLE = offensive:
He was criticized for his *exceptionable* comments.
💥EXCEPTIONAL = outstanding:
My essay is *exceptional*.
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“Stupid” is bad, but “stupendous” is good.
STUPENDOUS = extremely impressive; splendid ✨
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Avoid making double negatives with “neither … nor”:
He DOESN’T eat NEITHER mice NOR bugs. → ❌
He eats 🤐 NEITHER mice 🐭 NOR bugs. 🐛 → ✔️
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🙅 Do NOT put apostrophes after abbreviations or acronyms to make them plural:
He bought 13 TVs 📺. → ✔️
He bought 13 TV’s 📺. → ❌
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✳️Differences between
BEING and BEEN
These words are often confused by ESL students. Although they are both forms of the primary auxiliary verb be, they are used in different grammatical structures.
The word been is the past participle form of be. It is used after have.
1)I have been to Australia.
2)The postman has already been.
The word being is the present participle form of the verb be. It is not used after have. As a rule, being is used after a form of be (is, am, are, was, were).
▪He is being sick. (= He is vomiting.) (NOT He has being sick.)
▪Who is being a silly baby, then?
▪I was being careful.
▪Being as a Noun
The word ‘being’ can also be a noun.
The word being can be used as a noun. As a noun being means a person or a living creature. Supernatural beings refer to spirits or gods.
▪Examples are: human beings, social beings, supernatural beings, living beings etc.
The structure be + being can be followed by an adjective or noun.
▪He was being careful.
▪She was being silly.
This structure is used to talk about actions and behaviors. It is not normally used to talk about feelings.
#Grammar
Should of → ❌
Could of → ❌
Would of → ❌
Should have → ✔️
Should’ve → ✔️
Could have → ✔️
Could’ve → ✔️
Would have → ✔️
Would’ve → ✔️
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Noticeable → ✔
Noticable → ❌. (ಠ_ಠ)
Definitely → ✔
Definately → ❌. (ಠ_ಠ)
Separate → ✔
Seperate → ❌. (ಠ_ಠ)
Do NOT add apostrophes to possessive pronouns! 🙅
His → ✔
His’ / His’s → ❌
Ours → ✔
Our’s / Ours’ → X
Yours → ✔
Your’s → ❌
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🔴"Far cry from” = very different from
#idiomatic_expressions
🔴More phrases and idioms :
✳️in the black
If a person or a company is in the black, their assets are greater than their debts.
✳️in the red
If a person or a company is in the red, their debts are greater than their assets.
✳️in the dark
if you are in the dark about something,it means you know NOTHING!
✳️in the long run
in the long run MEANS over a long period of time.
#idiomatic_expressions
SINGULAR → PLURAL:
Knife 🔪 → knives. 🔪🔪
Wife 👰 → wives. 👰👰
Life → lives.
However,
Fife (a flute) → *fifes*, not “fives.”
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Threw = past of “throw”
Through = into and out of
Thru = informal version of “through”
Thorough = complete
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In American English 🇺🇸, “practice” is both a noun and a verb.
In British English 🇬🇧, “practice” is a noun, and “practise” is a verb.
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Nobody → ✔
Everyone → ✔
However,
Noone → ❌
No-one → ❌
Noöne → ❌
No one → ✔
“Barely no” is a double negative. So are “hardly no” and “scarcely no.”
Change “no” to *any*: There is *barely any* ice cream left. 🍨
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✳️ONE-TIME = happening just once.
I paid the one-time activation fee. 📱💸
✳️ONETIME = former.
We met the onetime celebrity at the café. 😎☕
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Follow “one of” with a PLURAL noun:
One of my cat 😸 → ❌
One of my CATS 😸😽 → ✔️
One of the kid 👶 → ❌
One of the KIDS 👶👧 → ✔️
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✳️Inequity = unfairness:
As CEO, Joe fixed the *inequity* in wages. 💵
✳️Iniquity = immoral act:
He was punished for his many *iniquities*. 🙈🙉🙊
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The plural of “forum” is “forums” or “fora.”
“Fora” sounds cooler, but if you want people to get what you’re talking about, use “forums.”
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The plural of “gymnasium” is “gymnasiums” 🏀 or “gymnasia.”
The same idea applies to “stadium”: both “stadiums” ⚽ and “stadia” are correct.
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Confluence = where two rivers meet; act of merging ↗↖
Influence = (n.) control; authority; (v.) affect, guide, sway
Affluence = wealth 💰
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Workout → noun: My *workout* at the gym was intense. 💪💦
Work out → verb phrase: *Work out* this problem: 1⃣ ➕ 1⃣ =❓; Let’s *work out*! 🏋
✳️DRIER (adj.) = more dry.
✳️DRYER (n.) = machine that dries clothes, hair, etc.
My dryer makes my hair drier than the Sahara Desert. ☀
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“Motherly,” “lonely,” “friendly,” “neighborly,” and “lovely” are some -ly words that are NOT adverbs. 🙅
They’re ADJECTIVES. 💡
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I like to read. → ✔️
I like reading. → ✔️
He dislikes singing. → ✔️
However,
He DISLIKES TO sing. → ❌
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