The past tense of ABIDE can be “abided” or “abode.”

“Abode” can also mean *a place of residence* (home):

🙋🏠 Welcome to my humble *abode*.

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📌 - 'need' - main verb vs modal auxiliary verb 📙📒📂

- 'need' as a modal verb:
- He need not do it. ✅
- He needS not do it. ☠️❌

🖌 - 'dare' - It can be treated either as a main verb or as a modal auxiliary verb. 🖌

- 'dare' as a modal verb:
- He dare not do it. ✅
- He dare not suggest that to her. ✅

- It is a good idea that Jack close all cages at night.
- It is a good idea for Jack to close all cages at night.

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🔰 RULE: 🔰
- When WHO refers to a personal pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, they), it takes the VERB that AGREES with that PRONOUN.
- It is I who AM sorry. (I am) ✔️
- It is I who is sorry. ❌
- It is YOU who ARE mistaken. (you are) ✔️
- It is you who’s mistaken. ❌
- - - - -
- It is I WHO AM responsible. (formal) ✔️
- It's ME THAT'S / WHO'S responsible. (informal) ✔️
- It is YOU WHO ARE in the wrong. (formal) ✔️
- It's YOU THAT'S in the wrong. (informal) ✔️
- - - - -
- It is I who AM to blame. ✔️
- It is I who is to blame. ❌
Less formal:
- It's ME WHO'S / WHO WAS to blame. ✔️
- It's US WHO ARE / WERE to blame. ✔️

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✳️ (give somebody/something) a new lease of/on life ✳️

✅ I HAVE a cold / a headache / a sore throat. ✅
✅ She’s got a headache. ✅

❌ I am having a cold / a headache. ❌

☑️ He IS HAVING a heart attack. ☑️

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✳️ I’m having a heart attack. ✔️

✳️ One can “have a heart condition”. ✔️

✳️ I hope I won’t have a heart attack. ✔️

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- drop a bombshell / drop a bomb =
to suddenly tell someone a shocking piece of news
~ My sister dropped a bombshell by announcing she was discontinuing her study for a job.

✳️ - en route / enroute (adverb, adjective) /ˌɒn ˈruːt/

✴️ - fit into/with something ✳️
✴️ - fit something into/with something ✳️

🔘 fit (verb) [be right size/shape] - fit in/into/onto etc:
- Their new car barely fitted IN / INTO the garage. ✅
- She can fit two more people INTO her car. ✅

➡️Ingenious [in-JEEN-yuhs] = clever, inventive

➡️Ingenuous [in-JEN-yoo-us] = innocent; naïve

An INGENIOUS artist 👨‍🎨 loved my INGENUOUS smile.

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“Children” and “men” are already plural, so their possessives are *children’s* and *men’s* (not “childrens’” or “mens’”).

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✳️Flagrant = obviously bad

An officer noticed his *flagrant* violation.

✳️Fragrant = pleasant-smelling 👃

👨🏻💐 Harry likes *fragrant* flowers.

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💠 - maverick (noun, adj.) /ˈmævərɪk/

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✴️ go the extra mile =

to make more effort than is expected of you; try very hard to achieve something

#idiomatic_expressions

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1️⃣ be in one's good books
2️⃣ by the book
3️⃣ bring to book
4️⃣ like a book
5️⃣ in my book