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- drop a bombshell / drop a bomb =
to suddenly tell someone a shocking piece of news
~ My sister dropped a bombshell by announcing she was discontinuing her study for a job.
✅ I HAVE a cold / a headache / a sore throat. ✅
✅ She’s got a headache. ✅
❌ I am having a cold / a headache. ❌
☑️ He IS HAVING a heart attack. ☑️
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🆘 🆘 🆘
🔰 RULE: 🔰
- When WHO refers to a personal pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, they), it takes the VERB that AGREES with that PRONOUN.
- It is I who AM sorry. (I am) ✔️
- It is I who is sorry. ❌
- It is YOU who ARE mistaken. (you are) ✔️
- It is you who’s mistaken. ❌
- - - - -
- It is I WHO AM responsible. (formal) ✔️
- It's ME THAT'S / WHO'S responsible. (informal) ✔️
- It is YOU WHO ARE in the wrong. (formal) ✔️
- It's YOU THAT'S in the wrong. (informal) ✔️
- - - - -
- It is I who AM to blame. ✔️
- It is I who is to blame. ❌
Less formal:
- It's ME WHO'S / WHO WAS to blame. ✔️
- It's US WHO ARE / WERE to blame. ✔️
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🖌 - 'dare' - It can be treated either as a main verb or as a modal auxiliary verb. 🖌
- 'dare' as a modal verb:
- He dare not do it. ✅
- He dare not suggest that to her. ✅
The past tense of ABIDE can be “abided” or “abode.”
“Abode” can also mean *a place of residence* (home):
🙋🏠 Welcome to my humble *abode*.
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✅ It has started raining. 💦
✅ It has started to rain. 💦
✅ It’s starting to rain. 💦
❌ It’s startING rainING. ⛔️🚫
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🛌 - ensconce (verb) /ɪnˈskɒns/
"At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ENSCONCED on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam."
― George Orwell, Animal Farm🐷🐎 🦆🐕🐱
🐟 PUT, FALL, JUMP, DIVE 🐠🐬🐳
➕ IN or INTO with no difference in meaning:
☑️ Can you PUT the milk IN / INTO the fridge?
☑️ Her keys FELL IN / INTO the canal.
✳️ Show the Difference: ✳️
➡️ 1- We love each other.►( = I love her, she loves me.)
➡️ 2- We love ourselves. ►( = I love myself, she loves herself.)
🆘 - Unique (adj.) - Absolute - Gradable or not? (2/1) 🛠🔍🔐
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💥⚡️⚡️⚡️- to steal someone's thunder 💥
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▶️ bedlam (noun) /ˈbedləm/ 🛌🐑
= a noisy and confusing place or situation
There was complete bedlam as everyone rushed for the shops.
synonyms: chaos, madhouse, mayhem, pandemonium, turmoil, uproar
🆘 Some adjectives have a different meaning when used before or after a noun:
- concerned, opposite, present, responsible, involved 🖍
- the points of the compass (north, south, east, west, south-east, north-west etc)
▶️ the difference between 'IN the south' and 'TO the south' or just 'south' ◀️
🔘 homework assignments ✔️
🔴 a homework / homeworks ❌
🔘 homework / any homework ✔️
✳️ I’m having a heart attack. ✔️
✳️ One can “have a heart condition”. ✔️
✳️ I hope I won’t have a heart attack. ✔️
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✳️ (give somebody/something) a new lease of/on life ✳️
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- It is a good idea that Jack close all cages at night.
- It is a good idea for Jack to close all cages at night.
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📌 - 'need' - main verb vs modal auxiliary verb 📙📒📂
- 'need' as a modal verb:
- He need not do it. ✅
- He needS not do it. ☠️❌
🥊 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 🥊🥊🥊
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💠 Punctuating conjunctive adverbs - When used in a simple sentence as a PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION, the conjunctive adverb has COMMAS around it 💠
🆘 HOWEVER 🛠
🆘 - Unique (adj.) - Absolute - Gradable or not? (2/2) 🛠🔍🔐
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♠️ Alternate vs Alternative ♠️
Original meal = 🍗
Alternate meal = 🌭 (replaces 🍗)
Alternative meal = 🌭 (but 🍗 is still an option)
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💥- and it shows = used for saying that something is very obvious
- They used the cheapest materials they could find, AND IT SHOWS.💥📖🖌
💠 - at the North Pole - at the South Pole etc 💠
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-[yet]
►When 'yet' is used in affirmative statements, it actually implies a negative, as in:
-I've yet to see the Eiffel Tower in France.( = I have not yet seen it.) = ( I haven't seen it yet)
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