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                         🔊 Articles 🔊

🔴 The Indefinite Article

🔸 Uncountable nouns are nouns that are either difficult or impossible to count. Uncountable nouns include intangible things (e.g., information, air), liquids (e.g., milk, wine), and things that are too large or numerous to count (e.g., equipment, sand, wood). Because these things can’t be counted.

🔸 The indefinite article is only for singular nouns. Uncountable nouns can be modified by words like some, however.

🔔 Example 🔔

❌ Please give me a water.

🔺Water is an uncountable noun and should not be used with the indefinite article.

✅  Please give me some water.
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🔸 However, if you describe the water in terms of countable units (like bottles), you can use the indefinite article.

🔔 Example 🔔

✅ Please give me a bottle of water.

❌ Please give me an ice.

✅ Please give me some ice.

🔺Note that depending on the context, some nouns can be countable or uncountable (e.g., hair, noise, time):

💭 We need a light in this room.

💭 We need some light in this room.
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🔸 Expression of the day : Be straight with someone

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📹 Advanced writing practice

TIME TO 🔧 SOME WRITING TASK ERRORS!

🔺Most of the lapses described in this video can be corrected immediately after watching it.
However, mistakes number 3 and 6 will require you to be patient!
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Put Someone's Nose Out Of Joint

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Level: Elementary~Intermediate

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#Idiom #Nose #Joint

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Put Someone's Nose Out Of Joint

🌀 Meaning:
〽️ If you put someone's nose out of joint, you upset them by not treating them with as much respect or consideration as they think they deserve.

🌀 Usage:
〽️ Brad had his nose put out of joint when he saw that he didn't get top billing on the movie poster. George's name was written above Brad's name.
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🔸 The pronunciation of today is :

🗣 Theatre

Level - Intermediate
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How to expand your vocabulary
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💢 State Of The Art
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💢 State Of The Art

🎨 Meaning:
🍃 If something is state-of-the-art, it's the latest and best example of something, or it shows the most recent developments in its field.

🎨 Usage:
🍃 Have you seen Ian's new phone? He says it's got state-of-the-art technology you can only get in that model.
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📹 Speaking practice

🤔 Be Professional!
💢 Never say this at work!

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⚡️ Practical expressions ⚡️

💡 Want to sound like native speakers?

✅ Here are the expressions that are commonly used by native speakers!
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⏰ Around the clock ⏰

✍ Meaning:
🔸 All day and all night without stopping, 24/7

✍ Example:
🗣️ They’re working around the clock to get it done.

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📹 Speaking practice
👩‍💻 15 Awesome Expressions to talk about Working from Home!

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🤔 10 Words That Can Be Confusing⁉️

1️⃣ affect / effect
affect: The bad weather affects my mood.
effect: The president effected several changes in the company.

2️⃣ alternatives / choices
alternatives: New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
choices: Our choices come down to staying here or leaving here.

3️⃣ alibi / excuse
alibi: The police broke her alibi by proving she knew how to shoot a pistol.
excuse: I can't buy his excuse.

4️⃣ anticipate / expect
anticipate: What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question.
expect: I expect that the weather will be nice.

5️⃣ flagrant / blatant
flagrant: The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law."
blatant: Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.

6️⃣ chronic / acute
chronic: For those with chronic depression, she said, "keep at it."
acute: Acute dysentery wracked and sapped life from his body.

7️⃣ compose / comprise
compose: England, Scotland and Wales compose the island of Great Britain.
comprise: After the 2014 referendum on independence for Scotland, the UK still comprised England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

8️⃣ continual / continuous
continual: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual war,” Madison concluded.
continuous: Continuous farming impoverishes the soil.

9️⃣ crescendo / climax
crescendo: She spoke in a crescendo: "You are a bad girl! You are a wicked girl! You are evil!"
climax: The fifth scene was the climax of the play.

🔟 decimate / destroy
decimate: Famine decimated the population.
destroy: The soldiers destroyed the village.

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📈 Off the charts 📉

✍ Meaning:
🔸 Great or wonderful than usual or average, at a very high level.

✍ Example:
🗣️ His intelligence was off the charts.

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🌮 Are there any foods you don’t like?

🥗 Sometimes there are foods we can’t eat due to allergies or lifestyle choices.

☝🏻 Here are some ways to explain that you can’t eat a particular food.

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🎓 Grammar lesson 🎓

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📖 English grammar can seem quite easy compared to some languages, but a small mistake can easily change the meaning of what you want to say.

📝 So here are some important rules that you should keep in mind when you speak and write English.


1️⃣ 🔸Adjectives and 🔹adverbs:
Make sure you use adjectives and adverbs correctly.
🔸Adjectives describe, identify and quantify people or things and usually go in front of a noun.
🔸They don’t change if the noun is plural.
🔹Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs and usually come after the verb.

For example:
✅ He’s a slow driver. (adjective)
✅ He drives slowly. (adverb)

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2️⃣ Use the correct conjugation of the verb:
Remember to change the verb to agree with the subject. The main subjects you need to be careful with are he, she and it because they have a different form to the others.

For example:
✅ She has two cats. 
❌ She have two cats.

Remember also that when you describe something using ‘There is/are’, the verb must agree with the first item you mention.

For example:
✅ There is a sofa, some chairs and a table. [Singular]
✅ There are some chairs, a table and a sofa. [Plural]

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3️⃣ Connect your ideas with conjunctions:
If you want to connect two ideas or short phrases, you can do so by using a conjunction.

For example:
✅ I’m studying English. English is important. 👇🏻
✅ I’m studying English because English is important.

The most common conjunctions are:
and – [addition]
because – [to give the reason]
but – [to express contrast]
so – [to describe a consequence]
or – [to describe an alternative]

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4️⃣ Never use a double negative:
In English there are often two ways to express a negative concept.

For example:
If you want to say “the room is empty”, you can say:
✅ There is nothing in the room. OR There isn’t anything in the room.

The words ‘nothing’ and ‘anything’ have the same meaning, but ‘nothing’ is used with an affirmative verb, and ‘anything’ is used with a negative verb.
 
This rule applies to other words like:
〰️ nobody – anybody
〰️ none – any

This is also true of the word ‘never’ when you talk about experience.
You can say:
✅ He’s never been to the U.S. OR He hasn’t ever been to the U.S.

The meaning is the same but in the second sentence the use of ‘ever’ means you need to make the verb negative.
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🤶🏻🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻
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📹 English in the workplace

🔟 Business English Expressions You Need To Know

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