Laboratory = room for scientific experiments 🔬

Lavatory = bathroom 🚻

Tell your kid to pee in the *lavatory*, not my *laboratory*! 😡💢

#Vocabulary

💁 FACT:

Stupid → stupider → stupidest.

Clever → cleverer → cleverest.

(Don’t be too surprised.) 😮

#Grammar

In formal writing,

*anyway* → ✔️

“anyways” → ❌

Why are you guys so mad, *anyway*? 😠💢

#Grammar

💁 The past tense of “pet” is *petted*, not “pet”:

In a humorous twist, the dog *petted* the boy.

#Grammar

“Data” 📈 is technically the plural of “datum,” but “data” is now used as a singular or plural noun.

So,

The data IS → ✔

The data ARE → ✔

#Grammar

SIGHT = vision. 👀 👓

SITE = location; website.

CITE = quote; refer to.

Use your *sight* to *cite* the *site* where you found your data.

#Vocabulary

The plural of “hippopotamus” can be either “hippopotami” or “hippopotamuses.”

Avoid the drama and just use “hippos.”☺️✔️

#Grammar

“Mathematics” is also known as
MATH in American English 🇺🇸
and
MATHS in British English 🇬🇧.
They’re the same thing.

1) He is gone. ✔️
2) He has gone. ✔️

3) He has gone home. ✔️
4) He is gone home. ❌

- 'is gone' = is no longer with us
- 'be gone' –> denotes a present state

- 'dispose of' (verb) = to throw away; to get rid of; to kill

- She DISPOSED OF her unwanted possessions before moving. ✔️
- The tyrant cruelly DISPOSED OF all his enemies. ✔️

- Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise DISPOSE OF. ✔️
- Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise DISPOSE. ❌

A squinting modifier (also called two-way modifier) is a type of misplaced modifier.

- have dibs on something / put one's dibs on something

🔘 The INSTRUMENT is an object that is not the doer of the action but something that the doer uses in performing the action. If it is mentioned in the PASSIVE sentence, it is preceded by the preposition WITH.

✳️ He was HIT BY a falling branch while walking in the woods. —-> A falling branch hit him while he was walking in the woods.
✴️ He was HIT WITH a branch while walking in the woods. —-> Someone hit him with a branch while he was walking in the woods.

✳️ The pigeons were DISPERSED BY a tourist walking past. —-> A tourist walking past dispersed the pigeons.
✴️ The crowds were DISPERSED WITH tear gas. —-> The police dispersed the crowds with tear gas.

When EACH follows a noun or pronoun in certain sentences:

► The women each gave her approval. ❌
► The women each gave their approval. ✔️

► The words are and there each ends with a silent vowel. ❌
► The words are and there each end with a silent vowel. ✔️

Realize 🇺🇸 = Realise 🇬🇧

Analyze 🇺🇸 = Analyse 🇬🇧

Recognize 🇺🇸 = Recognise 🇬🇧

Apologize 🇺🇸 = Apologise 🇬🇧

➡️ Expressions like "in three hours' time" refer to the FUTURE.

☑️ - I'll see you in two days.
☑️ - I'll see you in two days' time.

- He wrote the book in a month. ✔️
- He wrote the book in a month’s time. ❌

- different from - different than - different to