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✨aged 🆚 elderly
🔹Who will look after us when we're aged?✖️
🔹Who will look after us when we're elderly?✔️(= in or near old age)
🔹I was approached by an elderly who asked me for directions.✖️
🔹I was approached by an elderly man who asked me for directions.✔️
🔻We cannot use elderly on its own to mean 'an elderly person'; an elderly man is preferable to an aged man, which is literary, and is more complimentary than an old man.
🔸Monica devotes a lot of her spare time to helping the aged/the elderly.
🔻Not *the ageds* *the elderlies*!
(the + adjective) for the group as a whole.
➖Constance looks after her aged parents. (= very old)
🔻Aged can be used in front of a few nouns:
✨my aged parents
✨an aged aunt
✨an aged friend of mine, etc.
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🔹Who will look after us when we're aged?✖️
🔹Who will look after us when we're elderly?✔️(= in or near old age)
🔹I was approached by an elderly who asked me for directions.✖️
🔹I was approached by an elderly man who asked me for directions.✔️
🔻We cannot use elderly on its own to mean 'an elderly person'; an elderly man is preferable to an aged man, which is literary, and is more complimentary than an old man.
🔸Monica devotes a lot of her spare time to helping the aged/the elderly.
🔻Not *the ageds* *the elderlies*!
(the + adjective) for the group as a whole.
➖Constance looks after her aged parents. (= very old)
🔻Aged can be used in front of a few nouns:
✨my aged parents
✨an aged aunt
✨an aged friend of mine, etc.
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📚Common #Phrases with “difference”:
🚩make a difference 👉🏻 to have an important effect on something, especially a good effect
🔹This program will certainly make a difference in the way I do my job.
🚩make no/little difference 👉🏻 to not be important, or to not have any effect
🔹Anybody can enjoy yoga, and your age makes absolutely no difference.
🚩tell/see the difference
1️⃣ to notice what is different between similar people or things
🔹How do you tell the difference between the kittens?
2️⃣ to notice what has changed about someone or something
🔹She said she’d had her hair cut, but I couldn’t tell the difference.
🚩with a difference 👉🏻 used for saying that something is more interesting or unusual than other similar things
🔹It was a wedding with a difference – the bride wore black.
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⚡️#Essential_English_words
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🚩make a difference 👉🏻 to have an important effect on something, especially a good effect
🔹This program will certainly make a difference in the way I do my job.
🚩make no/little difference 👉🏻 to not be important, or to not have any effect
🔹Anybody can enjoy yoga, and your age makes absolutely no difference.
🚩tell/see the difference
1️⃣ to notice what is different between similar people or things
🔹How do you tell the difference between the kittens?
2️⃣ to notice what has changed about someone or something
🔹She said she’d had her hair cut, but I couldn’t tell the difference.
🚩with a difference 👉🏻 used for saying that something is more interesting or unusual than other similar things
🔹It was a wedding with a difference – the bride wore black.
⚡️#Phrases
⚡️#Essential_English_words
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✒️”Prodigal“ is a synonym for:
Anonymous Poll
30%
1️⃣ imprudent
37%
2️⃣ profligate
33%
3️⃣ both 1️⃣ & 2️⃣
✨Thank you everybody!
You did great. 👍🏻👍🏻
The correct answers are:
1. 🔹Delirious
= Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic.
✨Antonyms: calm, sensible, rational, coherent, sane, lucid, compos mentis, controlled, level-headed
✨Example:
➖ A crowd of delirious baseball fans cheered the home team to a shutout victory.
2. 3️⃣ is correct
🔹Excessive, lavish, luxurious, extravagant, wasteful, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, imprudent are all synonyms.
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You did great. 👍🏻👍🏻
The correct answers are:
1. 🔹Delirious
= Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic.
✨Antonyms: calm, sensible, rational, coherent, sane, lucid, compos mentis, controlled, level-headed
✨Example:
➖ A crowd of delirious baseball fans cheered the home team to a shutout victory.
2. 3️⃣ is correct
🔹Excessive, lavish, luxurious, extravagant, wasteful, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, imprudent are all synonyms.
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🔻Pull away
✨هذا الفعل المركب له معنيان عكس بعض حسب مضمون الجملة. اذا اردنا استخدامه مع "العاقل" سيكون بمعنى "يبتعد/يتراجع للخلف"
✨(PERSON) If you pull away from someone who is holding you, you suddenly move your body backwards, away from them:
➖When I leaned over to wipe the child's face, he pulled away.
➖She tried to stop him from going, but he pulled away from her.
✨أما اذا استخدمناه مع غير العاقل و خصوصاً مع "المركبات و وسائل النقل" فسيكون بمعنى "يتحرك للأمام"
✨(VEHICLE) If a vehicle pulls away, it starts moving:
➖There was a roar and a cloud of smoke as the car pulled away from the traffic lights.
➖The bus pulled away from the station around noon.
➖We waved goodbye as the boat pulled away from the dock.
🔻Pull away (AmE)
✨و له معنى آخر في الانجليزية الامريكية لوصف أداء الفِرق و اللاعبين في الألعاب الرياضية بمعنى "زيادة درجة أو تحسين رتبة":
= to increase a score or improve a rank (Used to describe a game or team in sports.):
➖The horse pulled away in the final stretch and won the race.
➖It was neck and neck for most of the race, but the blue car pulled away during the final lap.
➖The score remained tied for most of the game, but the home team started pulling away with its field goal in the third quarter.
#Phrasal_verbs
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✨هذا الفعل المركب له معنيان عكس بعض حسب مضمون الجملة. اذا اردنا استخدامه مع "العاقل" سيكون بمعنى "يبتعد/يتراجع للخلف"
✨(PERSON) If you pull away from someone who is holding you, you suddenly move your body backwards, away from them:
➖When I leaned over to wipe the child's face, he pulled away.
➖She tried to stop him from going, but he pulled away from her.
✨أما اذا استخدمناه مع غير العاقل و خصوصاً مع "المركبات و وسائل النقل" فسيكون بمعنى "يتحرك للأمام"
✨(VEHICLE) If a vehicle pulls away, it starts moving:
➖There was a roar and a cloud of smoke as the car pulled away from the traffic lights.
➖The bus pulled away from the station around noon.
➖We waved goodbye as the boat pulled away from the dock.
🔻Pull away (AmE)
✨و له معنى آخر في الانجليزية الامريكية لوصف أداء الفِرق و اللاعبين في الألعاب الرياضية بمعنى "زيادة درجة أو تحسين رتبة":
= to increase a score or improve a rank (Used to describe a game or team in sports.):
➖The horse pulled away in the final stretch and won the race.
➖It was neck and neck for most of the race, but the blue car pulled away during the final lap.
➖The score remained tied for most of the game, but the home team started pulling away with its field goal in the third quarter.
#Phrasal_verbs
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🔻To ad-lib
🔻يرتجل
= To improvise all or part of a speech or another kind of performance; that is, to spontaneously say something without prior preparation:
✨ I felt that the actor forgot his text. Nevertheless he ad-libbed very well.
#idiom
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🔻يرتجل
= To improvise all or part of a speech or another kind of performance; that is, to spontaneously say something without prior preparation:
✨ I felt that the actor forgot his text. Nevertheless he ad-libbed very well.
#idiom
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🔴Except 🆚 except for
🔹Except you, I like everyone.✘
🔹Except for you, I like everyone.✔️
🔹Except this mistake, you did very well.✘
🔹Except for this mistake, you did very well.✔️
🔻Except can be used without for after words like all, every, no, everything, anybody, nowhere, whole etc. In other cases we usually use except for.
🔸He cleaned all the rooms except the bedroom. ✔️
🔸He cleaned all the rooms except for the bedroom. ✔️
🔻Except can be used without for after all.
▪️Nobody was invited except Peter and Alice. ✔️
▪️Nobody was invited except for Peter and Alice.✔️
➖I like everyone except / except for you.✔️
➖They were all tired except / except for John.✔️
➖That was a good essay, except for a few spelling mistakes. ✔️
➖That was a good essay, except a few spelling mistakes.✘
🔻Before prepositions and conjunctions we use except.
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🔹Except you, I like everyone.✘
🔹Except for you, I like everyone.✔️
🔹Except this mistake, you did very well.✘
🔹Except for this mistake, you did very well.✔️
🔻Except can be used without for after words like all, every, no, everything, anybody, nowhere, whole etc. In other cases we usually use except for.
🔸He cleaned all the rooms except the bedroom. ✔️
🔸He cleaned all the rooms except for the bedroom. ✔️
🔻Except can be used without for after all.
▪️Nobody was invited except Peter and Alice. ✔️
▪️Nobody was invited except for Peter and Alice.✔️
➖I like everyone except / except for you.✔️
➖They were all tired except / except for John.✔️
➖That was a good essay, except for a few spelling mistakes. ✔️
➖That was a good essay, except a few spelling mistakes.✘
🔻Before prepositions and conjunctions we use except.
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⚡️If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em
= used when you decide to take part in something even though you disapprove of it, because everyone else is doing it and you cannot stop them
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= used when you decide to take part in something even though you disapprove of it, because everyone else is doing it and you cannot stop them
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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)1️⃣
When a sound at the end of a word takes on the quality of the sound at the beginning of the next word.
✨Good girl. She's a good girl. (goog girl)
✨Good boy. He's a good boy. (goob boy)
✨White paper. I only use white paper. (whipe paper)
✨Speed boat. I've never been in speed boat. (speeb boat)
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When a sound at the end of a word takes on the quality of the sound at the beginning of the next word.
✨Good girl. She's a good girl. (goog girl)
✨Good boy. He's a good boy. (goob boy)
✨White paper. I only use white paper. (whipe paper)
✨Speed boat. I've never been in speed boat. (speeb boat)
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✨To be in the limelight
🔻محط الأنظار
🔻مركز الاهتمام
lime‧light /ˈlaɪmlaɪt/ BrE AmE #noun [singular, uncountable]
= a situation in which someone receives a lot of attention, especially from newspapers, television etc.
🔹All celebrities don’t like their children to be in the limelight.
🔸Antonym: out of the limelight
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🔻محط الأنظار
🔻مركز الاهتمام
lime‧light /ˈlaɪmlaɪt/ BrE AmE #noun [singular, uncountable]
= a situation in which someone receives a lot of attention, especially from newspapers, television etc.
🔹All celebrities don’t like their children to be in the limelight.
🔸Antonym: out of the limelight
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