❤️ Expressions with heart ❤️

💝 I started a business degree, but my heart wasn't really in it. (= I wasn't really Interested in or enthusiastic about it.)

💖 I didn't have the heart to tell her she'd failed. (= I was unable to tell her that she'd failed, because I knew she'd be upset.)

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 My heart told me to help him. (= Emotionally. l felt I should help him.)

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May be 🔠🔠 Maybe

🧡 May is a modal verb which indicates possibility.

May be = is possibly

Example:

🟠 Her essay may be short 🤭

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💙 Maybe = perhaps

Example:

🔵 Maybe my wife will be one of the happiest women in the world😉

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🌀 Difficult relationships

1⃣ take an instant dislike to sb phrasal verb
📖 dislike sb as soon as you meet them.
🏷 He may suddenly take a dislike to foods that he's previously enjoyed.
🏷 And to make matters worse I took an instant dislike to the wife.

2⃣ resent /rɪˈzent/ verb [transitive]
📖 to feel angry or upset about a situation or about something that someone has done, especially because you think that it is not fair
📌 resent (somebody) doing something
🏷 I resented having to work such long hours.
📌 bitterly/deeply/strongly resent
🏷 She bitterly resented his mother’s influence over him.

3⃣ hostile /ˈhɒstaɪl $ ˈhɑːstl, ˈhɑːstaɪl/ adjective
📖 angry and deliberately unfriendly towards someone, and ready to argue with them
📌 hostile to/towards
🏷 Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.
🏷 Several of the neighbors had become openly hostile to one another.
— hostility noun

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🏃‍♂️ A lot of, lots of, plenty of, a great deal of etc. 📌

🔗 1. These expressions have similar meanings to the determiners much, many and most, but the grammar is not quite the same. Of is used after these expressions even before nouns with no determiner.
Compare:
◇Plenty of shops open on Sunday mornings. (NOT Plenty shops ---)
◇Many shops open on Sunday mornings. (NOT Many of shops ---)
◇There is not a lot of rice left. (NOT There is not a lot rice left.)
◇There is not much rice left. (NOT There is not much of rice left.)

🔗2. A lot of and lots of

□These are rather informal. There is not much difference between a lot of and lots of. They are both used mainly before singular uncountable and plural nouns, and before pronouns. When a lot of/lots of is used before a plural subject, the verb is plural.
◇A lot of my friends live abroad.
◇Lots of time is needed to learn a language.

🔗3. Plenty of

□Plenty of means enough and more. It is used before singular uncountable and plural nouns.
◇There is plenty of time.
◇Plenty of shops accept credit cards.

🔗4. A large amount of, a great deal of and a large number of

□These expressions are rather formal. A large amount of and a great deal of are generally used before uncountable nouns.
◇She has spent a great deal of time in Europe.

○A large number of is used before plural nouns. The following verb is plural.
◇A large number of issues still need to be addressed.

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