A NUMBER OF clothes IS on sale. → ❌

A NUMBER OF clothes 👗👖👔 ARE on sale. → ✔️

A NUMBER OF = several; it requires a PLURAL verb.

#Grammar

💥“Recur” = happen repeatedly and regularly.

💥“Reoccur” = happen again.

The sunrise *recurs*.
Ensure that financial crises do not *reoccur*!

#vocabulary

TOP DOG = the most important and powerful person in a group. 👑
UNDERDOG = someone or something (e.g., a team) that nobody expects to win.

#vocabulary

DECENT = appropriate; acceptable.👌
DESCENT = downward ⬇️ movement.
DISSENT = to disagree 🙅; disagreement.
THIS SCENT = this smell. 👃

#vocabulary

💥EXCEPTIONABLE = offensive:
He was criticized for his *exceptionable* comments.

💥EXCEPTIONAL = outstanding:
My essay is *exceptional*.

#vocabulary

Don’t begin a question with “May you …?”

💁 Begin with “May I,” “Could you,” or “Can you,” “Did you,” etc. instead.

*May I* play games? 🎮

#Grammar

Do NOT add apostrophes to possessive pronouns! 👁👁

His → ✔️

His’ / His’s → ❌

Ours → ✔️

Our’s / Ours’ → X

Yours → ✔️

Your’s → ❌

#Grammar

APPRAISE = to estimate an item’s value

APPRISE = to inform

Please *apprise* me of my car’s value after you *appraise* it.

👨💬 🤑🚙💵

#vocabulary

►Show the Difference:

[at play - in play ]

1- Children spend hours at play. ► ( = playing.)
2- I only said it in play. ► ( = not seriously.)

►Show the Difference:

[last - latest ]

1- What is the last book you have read? ► ( = There's a hint that the person who's being asked doesn't read many books.)
2-What is the latest book you have read? ► ( = it sounds like that person reads books regularly.)