✅ 5 Phrasal Verbs with HOLD – hold on, hold against, hold in…
Phrasal verbs are an important part of speaking English fluently. In this lesson, I look at FIVE common and useful phrasal verbs with the verb HOLD. Hold on. Five? That’s right! I don’t hold back anything in this lesson. Hold onto something, and get ready to learn. You won’t be able to hold in your smile as you improve your vocabulary! Click on this lesson, or I may hold it against you!
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📅 Phrasal Verb
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✳️ blow out


✍ Meaning:

If a flame blows out, it goes out because someone blows on it or because of the wind.

❕For example:

🔺 blow out sth
 Make a wish, and then take a big breath and blow out all the candles on your birthday cake.

🔺 blow sth out
 Make sure you don't let the wind blow the lamp out.
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✳️ Never say die!

✍ Meaning:

You can say "Never say die!" if you want to tell someone to keep trying while there's still a chance of success.

❕ For example:

🔹 We were two goals down with only a few minutes to go, but our captain wouldn't give up. He was shouting, "Come on, guys! Never say die!"

🔹 After falling off his surfboard for the hundredth time, Craig climbed back on and said with a laugh, "Never say die!"
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✳️ Bummer

📌 definition of BUMMER

⭕️ informal
⭕️ noun

Ⓜ️: something that is unpleasant or disappointing

🔆 That was a real bummer of a movie.

🔆 You can't go? What a bummer! 🤧
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✍Verbs → Informal & Formal

say sorry ➖ apologize, apologise
go up ➖ increase
go down ➖ decrease
set up ➖ establish
look at ➖ examine
blow up ➖ explode
find out ➖ discover
bring about ➖ cause
put off ➖ postpone, delay
rack up ➖ accumulate
make up ➖ fabricate
stand for ➖ represent
find out ➖ discover, ascertain
leave out ➖ omit
point out ➖ indicate
go against ➖ oppose
get in touch with ➖ contact
It’s about ➖ It concerns, It’s in regards to
need to ➖ required
think about ➖ consider
get ➖ obtain
put up ➖ tolerate
deal with ➖ handle
seem ➖ appear
show ➖ demonstrate, illustrate, portray
start ➖ commence
keep ➖ retain
free ➖ release
get on someone’s nerves ➖ bother
ring up ➖ call
show up ➖ arrive
let ➖ permit
fill in ➖ substitute, inform
block ➖ undermine
give the go ahead, greenlight ➖ authorize, authorise
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#grammar

💮 There, They're, Their :

☑️ There : It is used to refer to a place or location.
🔸 I live there.
🔹 My car is over there.

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☑️ Their: It is used to show ownership. Their replaces a singular (non-gender) or plural noun.

🔸 This is their apartment.
🔹 The ball is theirs.

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☑️ They’re: It is a contraction of the words They and Are.

🔸 They’re my friends.
🔹 I don’t know where they’re going.
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#common_mistakes

1️⃣ The ordinal numeral misplaced.

❌ Don't say:- I've read the two first chapters.

✅ Say: - I've read the first two chapters.

⚠️ Place ordinal numerals before cardinal numerals. There can't be two first chapters, only one. Similarly, we must say: The last two (three, etc.), and not The two (three, etc.) last.

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2️⃣ Enough, when used as an Adverb, is preceded by a positive degree Adjective or Adverb.

❌ Don't say: - He is greater enough to pardon you.

✅ Say: - He is great enough to pardon you.

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Two negatives cancel each other. Hence two negatives should not be used in the same sentence unless we make an affirmation.

❌ Don't say: - I have not got none.

✅ Say: - I have not got any.

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Capable of + -ing.

❌ Don't say: - They're quite capable to do that.

✅ Say: They're quite capable of doing that.

⚠️ Note: Also incapable of; to + the infinitive follows able or unable: He is unable to do anything.
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15 ways to say "sorry" in English

🅾️ I do apologize for...
🅾️ I must apologize for...
🅾️ I apologize for...
🅾️ I'd like to apologize for...
🅾️ I am so sorry for...
🅾️ I shouldn't have...
🅾️ It's all my fault.
🅾️ I'm ashamed of...
🅾️ Please, forgive me for...
🅾️ Excuse me for ...
🅾️ I'm terribly sorry for...
🅾️ Pardon me for this...
🅾️ Please, forgive me for my....
🅾️ Please, accept my apologies for...
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🛑 #Accepting_apology

🔺That's all right.
🔺 Never mind.
🔺 Don't apologize.
🔺 It doesn't matter.
🔺 Don't worry about it.
🔺 Don't mention it.
🔺 That's OK.
🔺 I quite understand.
🔺 You couldn't help it.
🔺 Forget about it.
🔺 Don't worry about it.
🔺 No harm done.
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"especially" and "specially"


🔶 Especially and specially are adverbs.

💠Especially means ‘particularly’ or ‘above all’:

🔰 Example:

🔅She loves flowers, especially roses.

✅We use specially to talk about the specific purpose of sth.

♻️ Example:

🔅This kitchen was specially designed to make it easy for a disabled person to use.


⚠️ Specially is used with a participle.

✴️ Example:

💢It is a specially designed umbrella.

📚 Mortgage (noun)

🔺/mor-gige/
🔺phonetics: /ˈmɔːɡɪdʒ/

Ⓜ️ = A loan from the bank to pay for your house.

🔹Do you have To pay off a mortgage? / People in London spend huge amount of their earnings on their mortgages.
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📚 a pain in the neck
INFORMAL

✍🏾 Meaning:
You can say someone is a pain in the neck if they annoy you, or something is a pain in the neck if you don't like doing it.

❕ For example:

🔺Lenny's being a pain in the neck today. He keeps interrupting me while I'm trying to work.

🔺It's a real pain in the neck when you're trying to get some sleep on the train and people keep shouting into their mobile phones all around you.

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💢 fall behind

✍🏾 Meaning:
If you have fallen behind other people, they have advanced faster than you and they are ahead of you.

❕ For example:

fall behind
🔺If he takes too much time off school, Ari will fall behind. Then he'll have to study hard to catch up with his classmates.

fall behind sth/sb
🔺Some Asian countries are falling behind China, and they need to develop their economies faster to keep up.
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