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▶️ - disseminate (verb) /dɪˈsemɪneɪt/ - formal 💡📚📖
= to spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people:
~ One of the organization's aims is to disseminate information about the disease.
~ The purpose of a university press is to disseminate knowledge by publishing books and journals.
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▶️ - dissemination (noun) /dɪˌseməˈneɪʃən/
~ the rapid dissemination of new technology
~ the dissemination of information
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💰 - pay one's dues 💰
~ She paid her dues playing in small clubs in New York before an album made her famous.
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✴️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱
- If you bite it and you die, it is poisonous. And if it bites you (you are bitten) and you die, it’s venomous.
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✴️ - be (right) up one's alley = be (right) down one's alley (AmE)
✳️ - be right up one's street (BrE)
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▶️ homophones: - pause ⏸ - paws 🐾
➡️ pause /pɔːz/ ⬅️ paws
➡️ paw /pɔː/
💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/4)
Is it ever okay to use a comma splice?
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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/2)
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Demur [dih-MUR] = to object; hesitate
Demure [dih-MYOOR] = shy
Fatimah, a *demure* 😳 girl, *demurred* when she was asked to model swimsuits. 👙
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If I had to describe this person in just one phrase, I would say "down to earth" 👍👍👍🌹🌹
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📚 - book-smart (adj.)
🌀 - street-smart (adj.) = streetwise
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⚪️🖌 No need for a hyphen in words that end with –long.
For example, it’s hourlong, daylong, yearlong.
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🌕 THAT 🌑
The Old Editor is getting tired of putting "that" back where it belongs.
Journalists commonly remove "that" from their copy. John McIntyre frequently puts "that" back in.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/93044514-132.html
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mischievous doesn't end in -vious, so don't pronounce it that way.
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💠 restrictive + non-restrictive clauses:
✳️ The box THAT lies on the table is empty. ✔️
✴️ The box WHICH lies on the table is empty. (correct in BrE) [usually perceived as incorrect in AmE]
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🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
- I saw a galloping horse down the hill. ❌
- I saw a horse galloping down the street. ✔️
- I saw a galloping horse speeding down the hill. ✔️
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🖌 antithesis (noun) /ænˈtɪθəsɪs/ - formal
plural ➡️ antitheses /-siːz/
~ He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.
🖋 antithetical (adj.) /ˌæntɪˈθetɪk(ə)l/
~ antithetical views
💠 - quixotic (adj.) /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ - mainly literary
~ a vast and perhaps quixotic project
~ a quixotic scheme to end the violence
origin: from Don Quixote + -ic
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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/3)
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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/1)
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A group for advanced learner's of English.
Note: it's not for practising English through chatting (hi, hello —-> ✖️ ).
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🚶♀️- street smarts (noun) [plural] 🏃🚶🕺
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⛰when to use articles with mountains ⛰🏔⛰
THE: The Alps, The Himalayas, The Rocky Mountains ⛰🏔⛰
🅾️ ZERO ARTICLE: Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Mulanje ⛰
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▶️ - afoot (adj. + adv.) /əˈfʊt/ 🐾
🔎 “The game is afoot.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle 🔍
✳️ afoot (adj.): happening or being planned or prepared
~ Plans are afoot to build a new leisure complex.
~ Trouble was afoot.
~ There is mischief afoot.
✳️ afoot (adj.): traveling by foot
~ She was afoot when I saw her this morning.
✴️ afoot (adv.): on foot; walking
~ They went to the village afoot.
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✒️- hyphen ✒️ 🖌- compounds 🖌
- They need to employ more full- and part-time staff. ✔️
- They need to employ more full-time and part-time staff. ❌
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⚪️ - introspective (adj.) /ˌɪntrəˈspektɪv/ 🔍🗝🚪💡🔦🕯
= tending to think deeply about your own thoughts, feelings, or behaviour
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🖌🖌🖌 - have/take/claim/seize the moral high ground
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