🖋🖌🖍 - Compound adjectives - hyphen
- I saw a man-eating alligator.
vs.
- I saw a man eating alligator.
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- I saw a man-eating alligator.
vs.
- I saw a man eating alligator.
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
discuss about❌❌❌
The verb discuss is never used with the preposition about. It is simply followed by a direct object:
✗ I would like to discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of students using credit cards.
✓ I would like to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of students using credit cards.
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The verb discuss is never used with the preposition about. It is simply followed by a direct object:
✗ I would like to discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of students using credit cards.
✓ I would like to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of students using credit cards.
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
Homeworks → ❌
Homework → ✔️
Homework assignments → ✔️
Vocabs → ❌
Vocab words → ✔️
Vocabulary words→ ✔️
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Homework → ✔️
Homework assignments → ✔️
Vocabs → ❌
Vocab words → ✔️
Vocabulary words→ ✔️
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
Don’t begin a question
with “May you …?”❌
Begin with “Would you,” “Could you,” or “Can you” if you’re asking someone a question.
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with “May you …?”❌
Begin with “Would you,” “Could you,” or “Can you” if you’re asking someone a question.
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
POPULACE = people living in an area: The general *populace* hated the film. 🎥👎
POPULOUS = having many people: Tokyo 🗼 is a *populous* city.
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POPULOUS = having many people: Tokyo 🗼 is a *populous* city.
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
ALLUSION = an indirect reference
ILLUSION = a deceptive appearance
ELUSION = an escape
🏃💨💨💨 👮🚓
DELUSION = a mistaken idea 👩💭❌
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ILLUSION = a deceptive appearance
ELUSION = an escape
🏃💨💨💨 👮🚓
DELUSION = a mistaken idea 👩💭❌
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
Criminals are *hanged*.
Paintings 🎨 and clothes👗 are *hung*.
I hanged up. → ❌
I hung up.📱→ ✔️
We hanged out. → ❌
We hung out. 👫🍨 → ✔️
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Paintings 🎨 and clothes👗 are *hung*.
I hanged up. → ❌
I hung up.📱→ ✔️
We hanged out. → ❌
We hung out. 👫🍨 → ✔️
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
“Barely no” is a double negative. So are “hardly no” and “scarcely no.”
Change “no” to *any*: There is *barely any* ice cream left. 🍨
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Change “no” to *any*: There is *barely any* ice cream left. 🍨
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Forwarded from English Tips&Tools (🔰Ramzy zaqan🔰)
📌I'm used to killing snakes = I've killed a lot of snakes in my life.
📌I used to kill snakes = I killed snakes in the past, but not anymore.
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📌I used to kill snakes = I killed snakes in the past, but not anymore.
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