🍃 BOTH and NEITHER 🍃

• Neither of them came. ✅
• Both of them didn’t come. ❎

• You can take both shirts. ✅
• You can take both of the shirts.❎

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🍂 POSITION of BOTH 🍂

* Auxiliary + both
* Both + verb
* Auxiliary + both + past participle
* Both ( of ) + noun/pronoun

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🍀 BOTH ... and ... 🍀

The same kind of words or expressions usually follow both and and.

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🔴 Daily Conversations:

♦️7. Negative Attitude in a Conversation (Part 1 of 4)

🔸7.1 When you express disagreement with a speaker

🔹No.
🔹I disagree.
🔹I disagree completely.
🔹I couldn't disagree with you more.
🔹I beg to differ.
🔹You're really stretching the truth.
🔹You're wrong.
🔹You're dead wrong.
🔹Wrong!
🔹You're way off base.
🔹No way.
🔹Not a chance.
🔹There's no chance.
🔹Absolutely not.
🔹Definitely not.
🔹Certainly not.
🔹Not at all.
______________

🔸7.2 When you express disagreement with the speaker's point or information

🔹That's not entirely true.
🔹Not always.
🔹Not anymore.
🔹That's not the way I heard it.
🔹That's not right.
🔹That's not true.
🔹On the contrary,…
🔹I can't accept that.
🔹You've got that wrong.
🔹You've got it all wrong.
🔹You've got the facts wrong.
🔹You've got your facts wrong.
🔹You haven't got the facts.
🔹I don't think you've got your facts straight.
🔹You don't know what you're talking about.
🔹You don't know the first thing about it.
🔹That's not the case.
🔹You're putting a spin on the facts.
🔹That's a lie.
🔹You're lying through your teeth.
🔹Nonsense!
🔹Baloney!
🔹That's a bunch of baloney.
______________

🔸7.3 When you express disagreement with a suggestion or offer

🔹I'm afraid not.
🔹I'd rather not.
🔹I don't think so.
🔹I doubt it.
🔹I guess not.
🔹I suppose not.
🔹It's not likely.
🔹I wouldn't count on it.
🔹I wouldn't bet on it.
🔹Sorry, it won't work.
🔹Forget it.
🔹That's out of the question.
🔹That's unthinkable.
🔹That's insane.
🔹Only in your dreams!
🔹Dream on!
🔹Not in your wildest dreams.
🔹You wish!
🔹You're out of luck.
🔹Over my dead body!
🔹Never in my life!
🔹I'd rather die.
🔹I'd sooner die.
🔹Not in a thousand years!
🔹A thousand times no!
🔹Under no circumstances.
______________

🔸7.4 When you are reluctant to accept a suggestion or offer

🔹Well, if I have to.
🔹Well, if you insist.
🔹Well, if you really think so.
🔹Well, if you really want me to.
🔹It doesn't sound like I have a choice.
🔹I've got no choice.
🔹I have no alternative.

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#idioms
On the same wavelength

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🌐 MULTITUDINOUS 🌐


📘Example:

The author's appearance is expected to attract a multitudinous gathering that will fill the entire auditorium.

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🌐 MULTITUDINOUS 🌐


📕Synonyms:

* legion
* many
* multifold
* multiple
* multiplex
* numerous

📗Antonyms: few

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📚 Homeschooling 📚


A: I think we should home school our children when we decide to have kids.

B: What? Why?

A: Well, our public schools here are not very good and private school are just too expensive. I have been reading up on home schooling and it has a lot of advantages.

B: Like what? I think that by doing something like that we would be isolating our children from social interaction.

A: Well, first of all, I would be able to teach them everything they learn in school in a more relaxed and fun way. I also think that having a one-on-one class is much better since you can focus more on his or her strengths or weaknesses.

B: I think neither your parents or mine would agree to such an idea.

A: I will bring it up over Sunday brunch.

B: Good luck with that!


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◾️Key Vocabulary

• home school - to educate kids at home by a parent or tutor
• first of all - firstly
• read up - to do research or instruct yourself on a topic
• isolate - to set apart from others; place alone
• social interaction - meeting, talking, doing activities with people
• one-on-one - a meeting or class between two people
• strengths - a quality that makes someone effective or useful
• weakness - the quality or state of being weak
• bring something up - to mention or open for discussion

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◾️Supplementary Vocabulary

• GED - general education diploma which is the equivalent of a high school diploma
• SAT - Scholastic Aptitude Test is a test which is taken throughout the US as an admission test to US colleges
• tutor - a person employed in the education of others, either individually or in groups
• recess - a short period of free time between school classes
• quiz - a short quick test

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#Reading_practice
#Listening_practice
#Speaking_practice
#Global_view_conversation

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✨JPEG = Joint Photographic Expert Group

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#Abbr.

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✨IMEI = International Mobile Equipment Identity

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#Abbr.

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✨URL = Uniform Resource Locator

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#Abbr.

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🚫NO/NONE & NOT A/ANY🚫

• No =not a/any(emphasize neg. idea)
• None =not any of
• No + plural coun. noun

NOTE!
• No + singular coun. noun when the sense makes it necessary!

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🚫 NO and NONE 🚫

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🍂 CATCH FORTY WINKS 🍂

= to have a short sleep during the day.

Synonyms: Take a nap

• He usually catches forty winks going home on the train.

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🔰 IF MEMORY SERVES 🔰

=you think you have remembered something correctly.

Synonyms: That’s reminds me. As far as I recall.

• He was mayor for 8 years, if my memory serves me.

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⚪️ A grammar question ⚪️

⚪️ She seems ………..... an attitude problem.

🔲 to have
⬜️ having
🔳 that has

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