Month: July 2019
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COURTEOUS vs POLITE – A DIFFERENCE?
POLITE = You ARE well-mannered, civilized COURTEOUS = Displaying good manners/showing thought or regard for others So if I describe…
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PHRASAL VERBS AND STUFF – BE QUIET
Good morning my dear friends. Decided to throw some phrasal verbs at you for: be quiet – so you can…
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10 Holiday Idioms and Phrases
1. To beat the holiday blues ● Meaning: to overcome the stress and frustration resulting from holiday preparation or resulting…
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WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS RELATED TO: ALCOHOL
BOOZE (slang: alcohol) – Let’s pop to the shop and get some booze for tonight’s party, mum! PLONK (slang: cheap…
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10 Phrasal Verbs to Help You With Technology – part I.
● 1. hook up Meaning – to connect wires from machines to a power source or other machines Example –…
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BENEATH – a preposition or an adverb?
✅ Meaning – ‘at a lower level than’. Beneath is most common in formal writing. We don’t use it often…
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10 Phrasal Verbs to Help You With Technology – part II
● 1. key in Meaning – type or enter characters using a keyboard Example – It takes too much time…
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10 Commonly-used Idiomatic Expressions with MIND.
At the back of your mind Meaning – Something that you are not thinking about right now but is in…
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Interesting articles — the word DARLING
What is the ‘ling’ in darling? (And what is the ‘dar-’ for that matter?) The -ling in darling is an…
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Common mistakes by English learners: Raise/bring up/grow/grow up
I hear this mistake all the time in class and now I will set the record straight! ➡ Grow =…
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