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How to be more polite in English.


☹️You don't understand me.

🙂Perhaps, I am not making myself clear.
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☹️You didn't explain this point.

🙂I didn't understand this point.
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☹️You broke my favourite mug.

🙂My favourite mug has been broken.
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☹️Give me your contact details.

🙂Can I have your contact details, please?
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☹️I want a pizza.

🙂I would like to have a pizza.

THIS

➡️ for people and things that are near to the speaker (listener)
➡️ to introduce someone
➡️ on the phone to introduce yourself
➡️ to talk about things that are near in time
➡️ with in time phrases such as this summer, this winter, this week, this year, etc.
➡️ to refer to something that is going to happen in the future, or something that we are going to say or do

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THESE

➡️ for people and things that are near to the speaker (listener)
➡️ to talk about things that are near in time

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THAT

➡️ for people and things that are not near to the speaker (listener)
➡️ to talk about things that are further away in time
➡️ to refer back to something that has just happened

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THOSE

➡️ for people and things that are not near us
➡️ to talk about things that are further away in time

Word of the Day

surreal \ səˈriəl \ adjective
1. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; unreal
2. resembling a dream


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/learning/word-of-the-day-surreal.html

Word of the day

ditty

\ ˈdɪti \ noun
: a short simple song, or the words of a poem intended to be sung