#Vocabulary
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✨Reporting verbs

#Grammar
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👌🏻Get it right: #damage
    

✨When damage means ‘harm or injury’ it is an uncountable noun, and so:

▪  it is never used in the plural
▪  it never comes after a or a number

🔹These toxins can cause damages to the lungs and brains.✘
🔸These toxins can cause damage to the lungs and brains.✔️

🔹They should consider the serious damages that their decisions may cause.✘
🔸They should consider the serious damage that their decisions may cause.✔️

🔹A great damage has been done to agriculture, forests, and people’s health.✘
🔸Great damage has been done to agriculture, forests, and people’s health.✔️

✨The plural form damages is a specialized legal term meaning ‘money that a court orders you to pay someone because you have harmed them or their property’.

🔻Mr Galloway was awarded substantial damages.


#Essential_English_words
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🔻#Discover /dɪsˈkʌvə $ -ər/ BrE AmE #verb [transitive]


#Metaphore

✨Discovering things such as facts and information is like finding them by digging or searching in the ground.

◽️Let me know if you #dig_up anything about him.

◾️I #unearthed some useful facts and figures.

◽️The facts only #came_to_light after a long investigation.

◾️We #left_no_stone_unturned in our search for the truth.

◽️The book is a #mine/#goldmine of information.

◾️I think that this will prove a #rich_seam to #mine for your research.

◽️It took me a long time to find it, but I finally #struck_gold/oil.

◾️You need to read a lot more: you’ve only just begun to #scratch_the_surface.

◽️You need to put in a lot of #spadework.

◾️The journalists were #grubbing_around for something to print.

◽️They #raked_up a lot of scandals.


#Phrases
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🔹OXYMORON


An oxymoron is a figure of speech, usually one or two words, in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side.

This contradiction is also known as a paradox. In speech, oxymorons can lend a sense of humor, irony, or sarcasm.

➖The word "oxymoron" is itself oxymoronic, which is to say contradictory. The word is derived from two ancient Greek words: 

🔻"oxys" = sharp
🔻"moronos" = dull or stupid


📚Example sentences:


✨I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief.

✨I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

✨And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

✨Modern dancing is so old fashioned.

✨A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

✨I am a deeply superficial person.

✨We're busy doing nothing.

✨No one goes to that restaurant anymore. It's always too crowded.

✨A joke is an extremely serious issue.

✨I like humanity, but I loathe persons.

✨I generally advise persons never ever to present assistance.


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#Phrases
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✨The following sentence may be interpreted in four ways.🤔

“He's only thinking about marrying a fellow doctor.”


1️⃣He's only <THINKING> about ...
[ie nothing has been yet decided]

2️⃣He's only thinking about < marrying a fellow doctor>.
[ie he is thinking of nothing else these days]

3️⃣He's only thinking about marrying <a fellow doctor>
[ie he would not consider a wife in any other profession]

4️⃣The situation is only {ie: merely} that <he's thinking about marrying a fellow doctor>
{ie you musn't imagine, for example, that he is worried about a difficult patient}

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✨DON’T SAY “You’re welcome”!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F99JNqsfxlQ

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✨#Lukewarm /ˌluːkˈwɔːm◂ $ -ˈwɔːrm◂/ BrE AmE #adjective
فاتر؛ دافيء

1️⃣food, liquid etc that is lukewarm is slightly warm and often not as hot or cold as it should be:

🔻She sipped some lukewarm coffee from her mug.

2️⃣not showing much interest or excitement: تعوزه الحماسة؛ غير مبالٍ

🔻His idea got only a lukewarm response from the committee.


🔸Chill-lukewarm reception  استقبال فاتر
🔸lukewarm attitude 
موقف غير متحمس؛ موقف فاتر
🔸lukewarm bath 
حَمَّامٌ دافِئ ( 34-37 درجة مئوية) 


#Vocabulary
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✨Definitely/Certainly not 🆚 Absolutely not


🔻Definitely/Certainly not! = No, without any doubt at all.

🔸Bill: Will you lend me some
money?
🔹Bob: No way! Definitely not!

🔸Bob: Have you ever stolen
anything?
🔹Fred: Certainly not!


🔻Absolutely not! = a strong denial or refusal.

🔸Bob: Will you please slip this bottle into your pocket?
🔹Bill: Absolutely not!

🔸Bob: Can I please have the car again tonight?
🔹Father: Absolutely not! You can’t have the car every night!


#Spoken_English
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✨Save #preposition
باستثناء؛ ما عدا
= except


🔻No one, save perhaps his wife, knows where he is.

🔹save for:

🔻The room was completely dark, save for one candle burning in the corner.

🔹save that:

🔻We know little about his childhood, save that his family was poor.

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🔹Position of “still” in a sentence


✨The position of “still” in a sentence depends on the type of verb:


⚪️If the sentence has a main verb without auxiliary verb, “still” comes immediately before it.

◻️I still watch cartoons.

⚫️If the sentence has an auxiliary / modal verb, “still” goes in the middle position between the auxiliary / modal and the main verb.

◼️He is still waiting for the bus.

🔴Finally, if the sentence has the verb “be” as a main verb or linking verb, then “still” goes after the verb “to be“.

♦️I am still tired.


#Grammar
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✨Mother's boy, also mummy's boy or mama's boy
✨ابن أمه

= a man seen as excessively attached to his mother at an age at which he is expected to be independent (e.g. live on his own, be economically independent, be married or about to be married).


#Slang
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