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🌕 - catch/take/throw someone off guard - also: catch/take someone by surprise
#idiomatic_expressions
◽️◻️ ⬜️ - the whole nine yards
◾️◼️ ⬛️ - go the whole nine yards
#idiomatic_expressions
🖌🖋🖍 - objective (noun) vs. goal (noun)
#Vocabulary
✳️ - objective (noun) /əbˈdʒektɪv/
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📌I'm used to killing snakes = I've killed a lot of snakes in my life.
📌I used to kill snakes = I killed snakes in the past, but not anymore.
#Grammar
Criminals are *hanged*.
Paintings 🎨 and clothes👗 are *hung*.
I hanged up. → ❌
I hung up.📱→ ✔️
We hanged out. → ❌
We hung out. 👫🍨 → ✔️
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POPULACE = people living in an area: The general *populace* hated the film. 🎥👎
POPULOUS = having many people: Tokyo 🗼 is a *populous* city.
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Homeworks → ❌
Homework → ✔️
Homework assignments → ✔️
Vocabs → ❌
Vocab words → ✔️
Vocabulary words→ ✔️
#Vocabulary
😁😎 - Compound adjectives - hyphen
"a ferocious man-eating jungle beast"
#Grammar
- To hyphenate or not to hyphenate compound adjectives
- exceptions
~ -ly adverbs
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🖋🖌🖍 - Compound adjectives - hyphen
#Grammar
◾️◼️ ⬛️ - fly/go off at/on a tangent /ˈtændʒ(ə)nt/
#idiomatic_expressions
✴️ - 5 alternative ways to talk about the future
#Grammar
- undermine (verb) /ˌʌndə(r)ˈmaɪn/ - synonyms for 'undermine'
#Vocabulary
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
🌕 - catch/take/throw someone off guard - also: catch/take someone by surprise
#idiomatic_expressions
◽️◻️ ⬜️ - the whole nine yards
◾️◼️ ⬛️ - go the whole nine yards
#idiomatic_expressions
🖌🖋🖍 - objective (noun) vs. aim (noun)
#Vocabulary
✳️ - objective (noun) /əbˈdʒektɪv/
synonym:
✴️ - object (noun) /ˈɒbdʒekt/
#Vocabulary
“Barely no” is a double negative. So are “hardly no” and “scarcely no.”
Change “no” to *any*: There is *barely any* ice cream left. 🍨
#Grammar
ALLUSION = an indirect reference
ILLUSION = a deceptive appearance
ELUSION = an escape
🏃💨💨💨 👮🚓
DELUSION = a mistaken idea 👩💭❌
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Don’t begin a question
with “May you …?”❌
Begin with “Would you,” “Could you,” or “Can you” if you’re asking someone a question.
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discuss about❌❌❌
The verb discuss is never used with the preposition about. It is simply followed by a direct object:
✗ I would like to discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of students using credit cards.
✓ I would like to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of students using credit cards.
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🖋🖌🖍 - Compound adjectives - hyphen
- I saw a man-eating alligator.
vs.
- I saw a man eating alligator.
#Grammar
- To hyphenate or not to hyphenate compound adjectives
- exceptions
~ -ly adverbs
#Grammar
🖋🖌🖍 - Compound adjectives - hyphen
#Grammar
✳️ - 5 alternative ways to talk about the future
#Grammar
Pizza delivery 🍕🍕🍕
⚪️ - box tent - also known as 'package saver', 'pizza saver', 'pizza table' or 'pizza lid support'
#Vocabulary
- undermine (verb) /ˌʌndə(r)ˈmaɪn/
#Vocabulary
🆚 device vs. devise 🆚
- device (noun) /dɪˈvaɪs/
- devise (verb, noun) /dɪˈvaɪz/
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