English Tips&Tools – Telegram
English Tips&Tools
43.2K subscribers
1.55K photos
11 videos
101 files
16 links
A daily dose of new English words, grammar and phrases to speak fluently.


Bot: @EnglishTipsandTools_bot
Download Telegram
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. ☑️

#Grammar
✳️ I’m having a heart attack. ✔️

✳️ One can “have a heart condition”. ✔️

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

#Grammar
- 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.

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

#Grammar 👧🏻👦🏻
✳️Flagrant = obviously bad

An officer noticed his *flagrant* violation.

✳️Fragrant = pleasant-smelling 👃

👨🏻💐 Harry likes *fragrant* flowers.

#Vocabulary
💠 - maverick (noun, adj.) /ˈmævərɪk/

#Vocabulary
✴️ go the extra mile =

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

#idiomatic_expressions
📚📓📔📒📕📗📘📙📖

1️⃣ be in one's good books
2️⃣ by the book
3️⃣ bring to book
4️⃣ like a book
5️⃣ in my book
- Punctuation - Comma or no comma?

✳️ As long as you live here, you will follow my rules.

✴️ You will follow my rules as long as you live here.
✳️ carry the ball 🏈
🔶 drop the ball 🏀
💠 be on the ball 🌎
✳️ - all - every - each - - - difference ✳️
💠 - other - the other - another - - - difference 💠
- The other books are ... ☑️
- The others are ... ☑️