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🆘 Some adjectives have a different meaning when used before or after a noun:
- concerned, opposite, present, responsible, involved 🖍
🖌 a pig in a poke 🐷🎒
▶️ bedlam (noun) /ˈbedləm/ 🛌🐑
= a noisy and confusing place or situation
There was complete bedlam as everyone rushed for the shops.
synonyms: chaos, madhouse, mayhem, pandemonium, turmoil, uproar
💥- and it shows = used for saying that something is very obvious

- They used the cheapest materials they could find, AND IT SHOWS.💥📖🖌
💥⚡️⚡️⚡️- to steal someone's thunder 💥

#idiomatic_expressions
♠️ Alternate vs Alternative ♠️

Original meal = 🍗
Alternate meal = 🌭 (replaces 🍗)
Alternative meal = 🌭 (but 🍗 is still an option)

#Vocabulary
🆘 - Unique (adj.) - Absolute - Gradable or not? (2/1) 🛠🔍🔐
🆘 - Unique (adj.) - Absolute - Gradable or not? (2/2) 🛠🔍🔐
✳️ Show the Difference: ✳️

➡️ 1- We love each other.►( = I love her, she loves me.)
➡️ 2- We love ourselves. ►( = I love myself, she loves herself.)
🔘 give somebody/get a fair shake 🍧🥛🍨
🐟 PUT, FALL, JUMP, DIVE 🐠🐬🐳
IN or INTO with no difference in meaning:
☑️ Can you PUT the milk IN / INTO the fridge?
☑️ Her keys FELL IN / INTO the canal.
✳️ tunnel vision ✴️
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💠 Punctuating conjunctive adverbs - When used in a simple sentence as a PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION, the conjunctive adverb has COMMAS around it 💠
🆘 HOWEVER 🛠
🛌 - ensconce (verb) /ɪnˈskɒns/

"At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ENSCONCED on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam."
― George Orwell, Animal Farm🐷🐎 🦆🐕🐱
🥊 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 🥊🥊🥊
It has started raining. 💦
It has started to rain. 💦
It’s starting to rain. 💦
It’s startING rainING. ⛔️🚫

#Grammar