✳️Differ = be different
✳️Defer = postpone; yield to another’s wish or opinion
Our ideas DIFFER, so let’s DEFER 🙇 to Dr. Lee’s 👩🎓 decision.
#Vocabulary
✳️Defer = postpone; yield to another’s wish or opinion
Our ideas DIFFER, so let’s DEFER 🙇 to Dr. Lee’s 👩🎓 decision.
#Vocabulary
✅Lesson = (n.) lecture, teaching
✅Lessen = (v.) decrease, reduce 📉
He begged 🙏 Mr. Dunne 👨🏫 to LESSEN the number of idioms in his LESSONS.
#Vocabulary
✅Lessen = (v.) decrease, reduce 📉
He begged 🙏 Mr. Dunne 👨🏫 to LESSEN the number of idioms in his LESSONS.
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USAGE: Indoor, indoors
📗Indoor is an adjective and indoors is an adverb.
🔹Examples:
🔹Indoor sports. 👉✔️
🔹Indoors sports. 👉✖️
🔹I stayed indoors. 👉✔️
🔹I stayed indoor. 👉✖️
#Grammar
📗Indoor is an adjective and indoors is an adverb.
🔹Examples:
🔹Indoor sports. 👉✔️
🔹Indoors sports. 👉✖️
🔹I stayed indoors. 👉✔️
🔹I stayed indoor. 👉✖️
#Grammar
✳️A PART = one part
Hard work 💪💦 is *a part* of success. 🏆🏋
✳️APART = away from each other; separately
It’s hard 😭 to be *apart* from you. 💔
#Vocabulary
Hard work 💪💦 is *a part* of success. 🏆🏋
✳️APART = away from each other; separately
It’s hard 😭 to be *apart* from you. 💔
#Vocabulary
The plural of “antenna” is *antennas* for phones📱, radios 📻, and TVs.
It’s *antennae* for the sensors on insects’ 🐜 and lobsters’ heads.
#Vocabulary
It’s *antennae* for the sensors on insects’ 🐜 and lobsters’ heads.
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✳️Diffuse [dih-FYOOS] = to spread out
✳️Defuse [dee-FYOOZ] = to disarm a bomb 💣; to reduce tension
#Vocabulary
✳️Defuse [dee-FYOOZ] = to disarm a bomb 💣; to reduce tension
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“Paper tiger” = one who looks and acts tough but is actually weak 🗞🐯
Most bullies are just *paper tigers*: they’re mean but weak.
#idiomatic_expressions
Most bullies are just *paper tigers*: they’re mean but weak.
#idiomatic_expressions
CAN’T hardly → ❌.
CAN’T barely → ❌.
CAN’T scarcely → ❌.
They’re double 🙅🙅 negatives.
CAN hardly → ✔.
CAN barely → ✔.
CAN scarcely → ✔.
#Grammar
CAN’T barely → ❌.
CAN’T scarcely → ❌.
They’re double 🙅🙅 negatives.
CAN hardly → ✔.
CAN barely → ✔.
CAN scarcely → ✔.
#Grammar