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A daily dose of new English words, grammar and phrases to speak fluently. Bot: @EnglishTipsandTools_bot
💠 In two circumstances, TOO can be used in a positive statement:
1️⃣ You are too funny! = You are so funny! = You are very funny!
2️⃣ You are too kind! = You are so kind! = You are very kind!
Confident = optimistic 🙌; self-assured
Confidant = man you trust with your secrets
Confidante = woman you trust with your secrets.
👩🏻💬 🤐🙊
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🐬 WISH + 1. simple past / 2. past perfect / 3. would+infinitive 🐳
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🆘 Tag questions - Under falling intonation on the tag question, negative sentences take affirmative tags, and vice versa:
✳️ 1. Tom is happy about his job, isn’t he? [ NOT is he? ]
✳️ 2. Tom is unhappy about his job, isn’t he? [ NOT is he? ]
✴️ 3. Tom is NOT happy about his job, is he? [ NOT isn’t he? ]
✴️ 4. Tom is NOT unhappy about his job, is he? [ NOT isn’t he? ]
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➡️ interest (noun)
► interest in something:
- My parents encouraged my INTEREST IN science. ✔️
► interest in doing something:
- What makes these footballers LOSE INTEREST FOR PLAYING in their own countries? ❌
- What makes these footballers LOSE INTEREST IN PLAYING in their own countries? ✔️
💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠 💠
📌🛠🔐INTERESTED IN versus INTERESTED TO 📌🛠🔐
➡️ interested (adj.) - wanting to know about or take part in something
► interested in something:
- Joe’s always been INTERESTED IN politics. ✔️
► be interested to hear/know/learn/see/ find out etc:
- I’d be INTERESTED TO HEAR what you think. ✔️
🚫 Don’t use ‘interested to’ with verbs such as ‘have’ or ‘buy’. 🚫
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➡️ Expressions like "in three hours' time" refer to the FUTURE.
☑️ - I'll see you in two days.
☑️ - I'll see you in two days' time.
- He wrote the book in a month. ✔️
- He wrote the book in a month’s time. ❌
When EACH follows a noun or pronoun in certain sentences:
► The women each gave her approval. ❌
► The women each gave their approval. ✔️
► The words are and there each ends with a silent vowel. ❌
► The words are and there each end with a silent vowel. ✔️
- have dibs on something / put one's dibs on something
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- 'dispose of' (verb) = to throw away; to get rid of; to kill
- She DISPOSED OF her unwanted possessions before moving. ✔️
- The tyrant cruelly DISPOSED OF all his enemies. ✔️
- Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise DISPOSE OF. ✔️
- Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise DISPOSE. ❌
“Mathematics” is also known as
MATH in American English 🇺🇸
and
MATHS in British English 🇬🇧.
They’re the same thing.
SIGHT = vision. 👀 👓
SITE = location; website.
CITE = quote; refer to.
Use your *sight* to *cite* the *site* where you found your data.
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💁 The past tense of “pet” is *petted*, not “pet”:
In a humorous twist, the dog *petted* the boy.
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💁 FACT:
Stupid → stupider → stupidest.
Clever → cleverer → cleverest.
(Don’t be too surprised.) 😮
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🖍 🐃 - be like a red rag to a bull / a red flag to a bull / like waving a red flag in front of a bull 🐂 🖍
= An object, utterance, or act which is certain to provoke someone.
~ Just mentioning his poor marks to him was waving a red rag to a bull.
▶️ Conditional words and expressions - IF, SUPPOSING, IF ONLY, WHAT IF + 1. simple past / 2. past perfect ◀️
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- phrases - 1a) not the least - not in the least - not the least bit 1b) in the least 2) to say the least 3) least of all 4) not a bit = not one bit 5) not a bit of it
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▶️ Showing order of events – which happened first - past perfect + simple past ◀️
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✳️“All but” =
1. everything except for: I’ve eaten ALL BUT two doughnuts. 🍩🍩
2. almost: The match is ALL BUT over; we’re going to win! ⚽️🏆
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- different from - different than - different to
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Realize 🇺🇸 = Realise 🇬🇧
Analyze 🇺🇸 = Analyse 🇬🇧
Recognize 🇺🇸 = Recognise 🇬🇧
Apologize 🇺🇸 = Apologise 🇬🇧
🔘 The INSTRUMENT is an object that is not the doer of the action but something that the doer uses in performing the action. If it is mentioned in the PASSIVE sentence, it is preceded by the preposition WITH.
✳️ He was HIT BY a falling branch while walking in the woods. —-> A falling branch hit him while he was walking in the woods.
✴️ He was HIT WITH a branch while walking in the woods. —-> Someone hit him with a branch while he was walking in the woods.
✳️ The pigeons were DISPERSED BY a tourist walking past. —-> A tourist walking past dispersed the pigeons.
✴️ The crowds were DISPERSED WITH tear gas. —-> The police dispersed the crowds with tear gas.
A squinting modifier (also called two-way modifier) is a type of misplaced modifier.
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1) He is gone. ✔️
2) He has gone. ✔️
3) He has gone home. ✔️
4) He is gone home. ❌
- 'is gone' = is no longer with us
- 'be gone' –> denotes a present state
The plural of “hippopotamus” can be either “hippopotami” or “hippopotamuses.”
Avoid the drama and just use “hippos.”☺️✔️
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“Data” 📈 is technically the plural of “datum,” but “data” is now used as a singular or plural noun.
So,
The data IS → ✔
The data ARE → ✔
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In formal writing,
*anyway* → ✔️
“anyways” → ❌
Why are you guys so mad, *anyway*? 😠💢
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Laboratory = room for scientific experiments 🔬
Lavatory = bathroom 🚻
Tell your kid to pee in the *lavatory*, not my *laboratory*! 😡💢
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