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- phrases - 1a) not the least - not in the least - not the least bit 1b) in the least 2) to say the least 3) least of all 4) not a bit = not one bit 5) not a bit of it
🖌 - idiom - ruffle someone's feathers🦉
▶️ Conditional words and expressions - IF, SUPPOSING, IF ONLY, WHAT IF + 1. simple past / 2. past perfect ◀️
🐬 WISH + 1. simple past / 2. past perfect / 3. would+infinitive 🐳
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🆘 mistakes with "WISH" 🚫
Confident = optimistic 🙌; self-assured

Confidant = man you trust with your secrets

Confidante = woman you trust with your secrets.

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#Vocabulary
🖍 🐃 - be like a red rag to a bull / a red flag to a bull / like waving a red flag in front of a bull 🐂 🖍

= An object, utterance, or act which is certain to provoke someone.

~ Just mentioning his poor marks to him was waving a red rag to a bull.
💠 In two circumstances, TOO can be used in a positive statement:
1️⃣ You are too funny! = You are so funny! = You are very funny!
2️⃣ You are too kind! = You are so kind! = You are very kind!
-[yet]

►When 'yet' is used in affirmative statements, it actually implies a negative, as in:

-I've yet to see the Eiffel Tower in France.( = I have not yet seen it.) = ( I haven't seen it yet)

#Grammar
🔘 homework assignments ✔️

🔴 a homework / homeworks

🔘 homework / any homework ✔️
💠 - at the North Pole - at the South Pole etc 💠
- the points of the compass (north, south, east, west, south-east, north-west etc)
▶️ the difference between 'IN the south' and 'TO the south' or just 'south' ◀️
🔸 - stroke = slash —- in numbers 🔸