Confusing Words
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What is the difference between a TV series and a serial?
What is the difference between a TV series and a serial? Is one merely a subset of the other? Perhaps…
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AMONG and AMONGST
AMONG and AMONGST are both prepositions meaning in the midst of, surrounded by, in the company of, or in association…
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🚨 Commonly Confused Words 🚨 – Read, Practise, Revise!
➡ 1. Confusing Words p1 – This worksheet contains 40 exercises to practice confusing words. – Homophones, verbs vs. adjectives,…
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Peculiar Vocabulary – ENORMITY
It seems simple enough, isn’t? ‘Enormity’ is so close to ‘enormous’ that they must be synonyms. Right? Wrong! 😳 Enormity…
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📞 CALL vs CALL TO
⛔ I called to my friend yesterday on the phone. (wrong) ⛔ I called to the police (wrong) Those are…
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🇬🇧 THINK OF vs THINK ABOUT 🇬🇧
➡ Think OF = bear in mind/take into account/think quickly/consider (usually works as a stative verb = can’t be continuous) …
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✍🏻 COMMON MISTAKE: ON TIME or IN TIME?
● On time = punctual ⏰ – Class starts at 2.30am. Please be on time (punctual) because I like to…
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DIFFERENT USES OF THE WORD – YET
Some of my students asked about the various uses of this word. So here we go then ladies and gentlemen…
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KEEP AT BAY and HOLD AT BAY
KEEP AT BAY and HOLD AT BAY are two renditions of an idiom that has been in use since the…
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Fall or fall down?
We can use fall as a noun or a verb. It means: 1. suddenly go down onto the ground or…
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