🔴Go down a treat
Meaning:
✨If something goes down a treat, it's a great success and everyone enjoys it.
🔹My mom made some pancakes for breakfast and we went down a treat. They were really delicious.
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Meaning:
✨If something goes down a treat, it's a great success and everyone enjoys it.
🔹My mom made some pancakes for breakfast and we went down a treat. They were really delicious.
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⭐️Special use of SHOULD⭐️
📚Emotive should📚
1️⃣This occurs primarily with predictive lexemes indicating surprise or evaluation: odd, remarkable, surprising, good, bad, a pity, etc.
The should clause can generally be replaced by unmodalised one. Compare!:
🔹It's surprising that he should have been so late.
🔹It's surprising that he was so late.
2️⃣This emotive should is also found in main-clause interrogatives used with the force of rhetorical questions:
🔹I was walking in the park and who should I meet but Angela Cooke! (= "to my surprise I met . . .").
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📚Emotive should📚
1️⃣This occurs primarily with predictive lexemes indicating surprise or evaluation: odd, remarkable, surprising, good, bad, a pity, etc.
The should clause can generally be replaced by unmodalised one. Compare!:
🔹It's surprising that he should have been so late.
🔹It's surprising that he was so late.
2️⃣This emotive should is also found in main-clause interrogatives used with the force of rhetorical questions:
🔹I was walking in the park and who should I meet but Angela Cooke! (= "to my surprise I met . . .").
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⭐️The only way to use IT with human reference⭐️
📚When used with human reference, the pronoun it only applies to:
1️⃣ babies or small children:
🔹Every child misses its mother.
2️⃣ general reference:
🔹That baby upstairs. It's always crying.
3️⃣ occasions when the gender may not be known:
🔹[said to a mother about a forth coming birth]:
▪️Are you going to have it at home or in a hospital?
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📚When used with human reference, the pronoun it only applies to:
1️⃣ babies or small children:
🔹Every child misses its mother.
2️⃣ general reference:
🔹That baby upstairs. It's always crying.
3️⃣ occasions when the gender may not be known:
🔹[said to a mother about a forth coming birth]:
▪️Are you going to have it at home or in a hospital?
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✨BUT (as a preposition)✨
🔹BUT means except.
▪️I have told this to no one but you.
▪️They looked in every place but the right one.
▪️He thinks of nothing but making money.
⚠️Note:
As a preposition, but should be followed by the accusative case; but usage permits a nominative when the pronoun in question stands immediately before a verb to which at first it might appear to be the subject (though, of course, actually, it is not)
▪️The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled.
All but him, though grammatically correct, would sound awkward in sush a position.
Whether a gerund or an infinitive should be used as the verbal noun after but, depends on which is demanded by the verb that precedes it and on which it depends.
▪️He thinks of nothing but making money, because to think of needs the gerund (=He thinks of making money).
▪️But He lives for nothing but to make money, because after lives the infinitive is needed after live to express purpose (=He lives to make money)
Colloquially, nothing but is often used to emphasize the noun that follows.
▪️The boy is nothing but a nuisance.
▪️The car has given me nothing but trouble ever since I have had it.
🔹NOTHING BUT and ANYTHING BUT can also be followed-by:
1️⃣ an infinitive without to.
▪️He does nothing but eat.
▪️He will do anything but work.
2️⃣ certain adjectives, when the sentence becomes a form of understatement.
▪️She looks anything but well.
(i.e. she looks ill.)
▪️My father was anything but pleased when he heard my story.
(i.e. He was very displeased.)
🔹ANYTHING BUT may also be followed by a noun, to produce the same effect.
▪️He is anything but a fool. (i.e. He is a clever person.)
🔹ALL BUT often has the force of a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to almost.
▪️You have all but finished our task.
▪️The work was all but complete, when we received orders to proceed no farther with it.
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🔹BUT means except.
▪️I have told this to no one but you.
▪️They looked in every place but the right one.
▪️He thinks of nothing but making money.
⚠️Note:
As a preposition, but should be followed by the accusative case; but usage permits a nominative when the pronoun in question stands immediately before a verb to which at first it might appear to be the subject (though, of course, actually, it is not)
▪️The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled.
All but him, though grammatically correct, would sound awkward in sush a position.
Whether a gerund or an infinitive should be used as the verbal noun after but, depends on which is demanded by the verb that precedes it and on which it depends.
▪️He thinks of nothing but making money, because to think of needs the gerund (=He thinks of making money).
▪️But He lives for nothing but to make money, because after lives the infinitive is needed after live to express purpose (=He lives to make money)
Colloquially, nothing but is often used to emphasize the noun that follows.
▪️The boy is nothing but a nuisance.
▪️The car has given me nothing but trouble ever since I have had it.
🔹NOTHING BUT and ANYTHING BUT can also be followed-by:
1️⃣ an infinitive without to.
▪️He does nothing but eat.
▪️He will do anything but work.
2️⃣ certain adjectives, when the sentence becomes a form of understatement.
▪️She looks anything but well.
(i.e. she looks ill.)
▪️My father was anything but pleased when he heard my story.
(i.e. He was very displeased.)
🔹ANYTHING BUT may also be followed by a noun, to produce the same effect.
▪️He is anything but a fool. (i.e. He is a clever person.)
🔹ALL BUT often has the force of a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to almost.
▪️You have all but finished our task.
▪️The work was all but complete, when we received orders to proceed no farther with it.
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✨ Back to the grind ✨
=To be back to the grind is to get back to work.
🔹OK everybody, lunch break is over. Now get back to the grind.
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=To be back to the grind is to get back to work.
🔹OK everybody, lunch break is over. Now get back to the grind.
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✨ BOTTLE sth UP
When a person bottles things up, they refuse to talk about things that make them angry or worried.
🔹Learn how to express anger instead of bottling it up!
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When a person bottles things up, they refuse to talk about things that make them angry or worried.
🔹Learn how to express anger instead of bottling it up!
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🔻Beat yourself up
يلوم نفسه/يشعر بالذنب
✨to blame yourself too much for something.
🔹If you do your best and you lose, you shouldn't beat yourself up about it.
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يلوم نفسه/يشعر بالذنب
✨to blame yourself too much for something.
🔹If you do your best and you lose, you shouldn't beat yourself up about it.
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⭐️Prepositions with MANAGE⭐️
📘Manage with an implement, a tool, or something which one uses
✨The ladder isn't quite so long as I thought, but I think I can manage with it.
📙Manage on one's income, one's pension, five pounds a week, etc. (i.e. on the resources available).
📕Manage for= manage in respect of
✨How did you manage for money?
✨The baker has not called today; I don't know how we are going to manage for bread.
📗Manage about is confined to colloquial English, and means manage 'in the matter of'.
Its precise meaning is rather vague, and has to be inferred from the context:
✨I don't know how women who are out at work all day manage about shopping' (i.e. how they manage to get their shopping done)
✨How do you manage about the dog when you go away on holiday?' (i.e. what do you do with it, or what arrangements do you make for its care?).
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📘Manage with an implement, a tool, or something which one uses
✨The ladder isn't quite so long as I thought, but I think I can manage with it.
📙Manage on one's income, one's pension, five pounds a week, etc. (i.e. on the resources available).
📕Manage for= manage in respect of
✨How did you manage for money?
✨The baker has not called today; I don't know how we are going to manage for bread.
📗Manage about is confined to colloquial English, and means manage 'in the matter of'.
Its precise meaning is rather vague, and has to be inferred from the context:
✨I don't know how women who are out at work all day manage about shopping' (i.e. how they manage to get their shopping done)
✨How do you manage about the dog when you go away on holiday?' (i.e. what do you do with it, or what arrangements do you make for its care?).
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⭐️When US refers just to the addressee(s)⭐️
📚There is a special use of us in which it refers just to the addressee(s), as when a parent says to a young child, Now let's just eat up these carrots.
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📚There is a special use of us in which it refers just to the addressee(s), as when a parent says to a young child, Now let's just eat up these carrots.
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✨What does the repetition of a noun mean in the existential construction?
There are certain cases where special interpretations are found with coordinator-marked duplication. One of these cases occurs when a noun is repeated in the existential construction:
🔹There are musicians and musicians.
⏩ this implies that there are different kinds of musicians, e.g. good musicians and bad musicians.
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There are certain cases where special interpretations are found with coordinator-marked duplication. One of these cases occurs when a noun is repeated in the existential construction:
🔹There are musicians and musicians.
⏩ this implies that there are different kinds of musicians, e.g. good musicians and bad musicians.
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📚Could 🆚 Was Able to📚
📕In contrast to the past modal could [= ability], the construction was/were able to emphasizes not just the potentiality, but the fulfillment of an action. For instance:
🔹We were able to leave the camp early.(typically conveys the additional message: '. . . and, moreover, we did leave the camp early'.)
✨Hence was able to, but not could, is acceptable in contexts implying fulfillment:
🔹I ran after the bus, and was able to catch it.✅
🔹I ran after the bus, and could catch it.❌
📙In the negative, however, this contrast between potential and fulfilled action is neutralized. Hence the following are both acceptable, and mean the same:
🔹I ran after the bus, but wasn't able to catch it.✅
🔹I ran after the bus, but couldn't catch it.✅
📗On the other hand, could may refer to habitual fulfillment:
🔹I could run after a bus and catch it twenty years ago, but I can't do that now.✅
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📕In contrast to the past modal could [= ability], the construction was/were able to emphasizes not just the potentiality, but the fulfillment of an action. For instance:
🔹We were able to leave the camp early.(typically conveys the additional message: '. . . and, moreover, we did leave the camp early'.)
✨Hence was able to, but not could, is acceptable in contexts implying fulfillment:
🔹I ran after the bus, and was able to catch it.✅
🔹I ran after the bus, and could catch it.❌
📙In the negative, however, this contrast between potential and fulfilled action is neutralized. Hence the following are both acceptable, and mean the same:
🔹I ran after the bus, but wasn't able to catch it.✅
🔹I ran after the bus, but couldn't catch it.✅
📗On the other hand, could may refer to habitual fulfillment:
🔹I could run after a bus and catch it twenty years ago, but I can't do that now.✅
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✨ Caught unawares
= To be surprised by someone or something.
🅰️: Oh man, I was totally caught unawares when your mother showed up here this morning.
🅱️: I figured as much when she told me that you answered the door in your robe and curlers!
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= To be surprised by someone or something.
🅰️: Oh man, I was totally caught unawares when your mother showed up here this morning.
🅱️: I figured as much when she told me that you answered the door in your robe and curlers!
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📚When it is possible to use the present perfect with definite past time adjuncts📚
📕IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN JOURNALISTIC STYLES, THE PRESENT PERFECT IS SOMETIMES USED TO STRESS THE CURRENT RELEVANCE OF EVENTS, EVEN THOUGH DEFINITE PAST TIME ADJUNCTS MAY BE PRESENT:
🔻[speaker is speaking in1998, i.e not 'the early 1990s']:
🔹We've lost so much of our manufacturing industry in the1980s and early 1990s.
🔻A man has been arrested last night and will appear in court tomorrow.
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📕IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN JOURNALISTIC STYLES, THE PRESENT PERFECT IS SOMETIMES USED TO STRESS THE CURRENT RELEVANCE OF EVENTS, EVEN THOUGH DEFINITE PAST TIME ADJUNCTS MAY BE PRESENT:
🔻[speaker is speaking in1998, i.e not 'the early 1990s']:
🔹We've lost so much of our manufacturing industry in the1980s and early 1990s.
🔻A man has been arrested last night and will appear in court tomorrow.
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✨Talk shop
🔹Explanation:
Talk about your work or business in a social situation with somebody who works with you
🔹Example:
▪️Are you two talking shop again? Why don't you forget business for a while and come and meet my friends?
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🔹Explanation:
Talk about your work or business in a social situation with somebody who works with you
🔹Example:
▪️Are you two talking shop again? Why don't you forget business for a while and come and meet my friends?
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✨See red
🔹Explanation:
Suddenly become very angry
🔹Example:
▪️Cruelty with animals makes him see red.
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🔹Explanation:
Suddenly become very angry
🔹Example:
▪️Cruelty with animals makes him see red.
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