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If I had to describe this person in just one phrase, I would say "down to earth" 👍👍👍🌹🌹

✳️ I wish I was - I wish I were ✴️

#Grammar

Demur [dih-MUR] = to object; hesitate

Demure [dih-MYOOR] = shy

Fatimah, a *demure* 😳 girl, *demurred* when she was asked to model swimsuits. 👙

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/1)

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/2)

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/3)

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💠 How to fix a COMMA SPLICE 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨 (4/4)

Is it ever okay to use a comma splice?

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😇 😈 🖌🖍🖋🛠🔧🔨

💠 - quixotic (adj.) /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ - mainly literary

~ a vast and perhaps quixotic project
~ a quixotic scheme to end the violence

origin: from Don Quixote + -ic

#Vocabulary

✳️ homophones ✳️

▶️ homophones: - pause ⏸ - paws 🐾

➡️ pause /pɔːz/ ⬅️ paws
➡️ paw /pɔː/

🖌 antithesis (noun) /ænˈtɪθəsɪs/ - formal
plural ➡️ antitheses /-siːz/
~ He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.

🖋 antithetical (adj.) /ˌæntɪˈθetɪk(ə)l/
~ antithetical views

✴️ - be (right) up one's alley = be (right) down one's alley (AmE)

✳️ - be right up one's street (BrE)

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✳️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱

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✴️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱

- If you bite it and you die, it is poisonous. And if it bites you (you are bitten) and you die, it’s venomous.

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🌀 - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱

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💰 - pay one's dues 💰

~ She paid her dues playing in small clubs in New York before an album made her famous.

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