✨ Catch the sun
(informal)
🔷If you catch the sun, your skin becomes red and sometimes sore because of the effects of sunlight:
🔶You’ve caught the sun on the back of your neck.
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(informal)
🔷If you catch the sun, your skin becomes red and sometimes sore because of the effects of sunlight:
🔶You’ve caught the sun on the back of your neck.
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✨ Common mistakes ✨
♦️I’m thinking of TO go home because I’m tired.❎
♦️I’m thinking of GOING home because I’m tired.✅
🔸Explanation:
If we use a verb immediately after a preposition, we need the gerund. We can never use the infinitive immediately after a preposition.
Some common prepositions are on, of, before, after, to, in, about, and with.
🔘Examples:
• I’m reading a book about starting your own business.
• After studying all day, I was tired.
• Besides running, I also like playing soccer.
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♦️I’m thinking of TO go home because I’m tired.❎
♦️I’m thinking of GOING home because I’m tired.✅
🔸Explanation:
If we use a verb immediately after a preposition, we need the gerund. We can never use the infinitive immediately after a preposition.
Some common prepositions are on, of, before, after, to, in, about, and with.
🔘Examples:
• I’m reading a book about starting your own business.
• After studying all day, I was tired.
• Besides running, I also like playing soccer.
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#Common_mistakes
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Forwarded from Omar Alamri
⭐️When should can only be used with I or we?⭐️
📚Of the many uses of should, there are four uses in which should can only be used with I or we. The four uses are the following:
📕1- Should is used instead of would for describing what you would do if something else happened first.
🔻If I were asked to work on Sundays, I should resign.
📗2- Should is used in polite requests.
🔻I should like to call my lawyer.
🔻We should be grateful for your help.
📙3- Should is used to give opinions that you are not certain about.
🔻I should imagine that it will take about three hours.
🔻'Is this enough food for everyone?' 'I should think so.'
🔻'Will it matter?' 'I shouldn't think so.'
📓4- Should is used as the past tense of 'shall" to say what you intended or expected to do.
🔻We knew that we should be leaving the next day.
📚Of the many uses of should, there are four uses in which should can only be used with I or we. The four uses are the following:
📕1- Should is used instead of would for describing what you would do if something else happened first.
🔻If I were asked to work on Sundays, I should resign.
📗2- Should is used in polite requests.
🔻I should like to call my lawyer.
🔻We should be grateful for your help.
📙3- Should is used to give opinions that you are not certain about.
🔻I should imagine that it will take about three hours.
🔻'Is this enough food for everyone?' 'I should think so.'
🔻'Will it matter?' 'I shouldn't think so.'
📓4- Should is used as the past tense of 'shall" to say what you intended or expected to do.
🔻We knew that we should be leaving the next day.
🔢 To DO THE MATH 🔢
= to think carefully about sth before doing it so that you know all the relevant facts or figures
🔸Do the math before you take on more debt.
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= to think carefully about sth before doing it so that you know all the relevant facts or figures
🔸Do the math before you take on more debt.
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Forwarded from Omar Alamri
⭐️'if-clauses' containing 'will'⭐️
Will does not appear in if-clauses. However, there are three exceptions to this rule.
📚To understand the first exception , we have to read about first-conditional
📕first conditional - future possibility / probability
if-clause = present tense/modal; main clause = will/going to/modal
📗The normal patterns is for the if-clause to be in the present tense or to contain a modal verb. It is then the main clause that includes the will future or possibly the going to future or a further modal verb. Here are some examples:
🔻If I don't see you at the match on Saturday, I'll pop round on Sunday morning.
🔻If the conditions are good over Christmas or the New Year, we may go skiing.
🔻If you go to the pub again tonight, I'm going to lock you out of the house.
🔻If you can't come to see us next weekend, we'll come and visit you.
🔻If you complete the work by lunchtime, you can take the afternoon off.
📙In all of these examples, we are talking about conditions that must apply for something to happen.
📕1- However, if we are talking about future results rather than conditions, an if - will clause is used. So here is the first exception to the rule:
🔻If (you think) it will save our marriage, I'll try to give up drinking.
🔻I'll help to pay the course fees, if that will persuade you to apply to university.
🔻Take the whole of next week off, if that will help you to recover.
📗2- if you will... = if you insist on...
This could be the second exception to the rule, but this use of will in the if-clause does not refer to future possibility, but instead has the same meaning as the verb insist on. In this usage a lot of word stress if placed upon will:
🔻If you will smoke twenty a day, it's not surprising you have a hacking cough. =
If you insist on smoking so much, it's not surprising you have a hacking cough
🔻If she will eat so many chocolates, it's hardly surprising she has a spotty face.
📙if you won't... = if you refuse to...
Similarly, the negative of will in the if-clause has the same meaning as refuse to. As you read these examples, remember to place heavier word stress than normal on won't:
🔻If she won't come to Sardinia with us, there's nothing we can do to make her.
🔻If she refuses to come to Sardinia with us, there's nothing we can do to make her.
🔻What shall we do, if she won't agree to have the operation?
📙3- if you will / would = if you wouldn't mind...
This third exception to the rule doesn't have a conditional meaning either. This helps to explain why they are exceptions. Here we are using if + will or if + would as polite requests with the same meaning as if you wouldn't mind:
🔻If you'll just fill in this form before you go, you can hand it in to reception. =
If you wouldn't mind filling in this form before you go, you can leave it with reception.
🔻If you would take a seat, the doctor will see you in five minutes.
🔻If you wouldn't mind taking a seat, the doctor will see you in five minutes.
🔻If you'd be so kind as to take a seat, the consultant will see you in five minutes.
Will does not appear in if-clauses. However, there are three exceptions to this rule.
📚To understand the first exception , we have to read about first-conditional
📕first conditional - future possibility / probability
if-clause = present tense/modal; main clause = will/going to/modal
📗The normal patterns is for the if-clause to be in the present tense or to contain a modal verb. It is then the main clause that includes the will future or possibly the going to future or a further modal verb. Here are some examples:
🔻If I don't see you at the match on Saturday, I'll pop round on Sunday morning.
🔻If the conditions are good over Christmas or the New Year, we may go skiing.
🔻If you go to the pub again tonight, I'm going to lock you out of the house.
🔻If you can't come to see us next weekend, we'll come and visit you.
🔻If you complete the work by lunchtime, you can take the afternoon off.
📙In all of these examples, we are talking about conditions that must apply for something to happen.
📕1- However, if we are talking about future results rather than conditions, an if - will clause is used. So here is the first exception to the rule:
🔻If (you think) it will save our marriage, I'll try to give up drinking.
🔻I'll help to pay the course fees, if that will persuade you to apply to university.
🔻Take the whole of next week off, if that will help you to recover.
📗2- if you will... = if you insist on...
This could be the second exception to the rule, but this use of will in the if-clause does not refer to future possibility, but instead has the same meaning as the verb insist on. In this usage a lot of word stress if placed upon will:
🔻If you will smoke twenty a day, it's not surprising you have a hacking cough. =
If you insist on smoking so much, it's not surprising you have a hacking cough
🔻If she will eat so many chocolates, it's hardly surprising she has a spotty face.
📙if you won't... = if you refuse to...
Similarly, the negative of will in the if-clause has the same meaning as refuse to. As you read these examples, remember to place heavier word stress than normal on won't:
🔻If she won't come to Sardinia with us, there's nothing we can do to make her.
🔻If she refuses to come to Sardinia with us, there's nothing we can do to make her.
🔻What shall we do, if she won't agree to have the operation?
📙3- if you will / would = if you wouldn't mind...
This third exception to the rule doesn't have a conditional meaning either. This helps to explain why they are exceptions. Here we are using if + will or if + would as polite requests with the same meaning as if you wouldn't mind:
🔻If you'll just fill in this form before you go, you can hand it in to reception. =
If you wouldn't mind filling in this form before you go, you can leave it with reception.
🔻If you would take a seat, the doctor will see you in five minutes.
🔻If you wouldn't mind taking a seat, the doctor will see you in five minutes.
🔻If you'd be so kind as to take a seat, the consultant will see you in five minutes.
✨mo
Meaning: moment
🔶For example:
🔺I'll be back in a mo.
🔺Hang on a mo!
🔘Origin: short for "moment"
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Meaning: moment
🔶For example:
🔺I'll be back in a mo.
🔺Hang on a mo!
🔘Origin: short for "moment"
#Slang
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⏺To give a run for one’s money
= To compete with someone at their level and make them really work for their win.
✨ Joe really gave me a run for my money in the chess tournament. He almost beat me!
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= To compete with someone at their level and make them really work for their win.
✨ Joe really gave me a run for my money in the chess tournament. He almost beat me!
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✨ PITTER PATTER✨
= Usually refers to :
🔸the sound that small footsteps make
🔸a happy announcement that a woman is expecting a baby.
👶🏻She was delighted to tell her husband that after 2 years of marriage they were going to hear the tiny pitter patter of baby feet. She would have her baby in about six months.
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= Usually refers to :
🔸the sound that small footsteps make
🔸a happy announcement that a woman is expecting a baby.
👶🏻She was delighted to tell her husband that after 2 years of marriage they were going to hear the tiny pitter patter of baby feet. She would have her baby in about six months.
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#phrases
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Forwarded from ⚡️Vocabulary Booster ESL⚡️
✨ HUM DRUM ✨
= This refers to ordinary routine aspects of our lives.
🔸People often look for some distraction from the hum drum of life.
🔸He worked every day from 8 am to 6pm and after six months decided to take a long holiday away from the hum drum of his work.
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#phrases
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= This refers to ordinary routine aspects of our lives.
🔸People often look for some distraction from the hum drum of life.
🔸He worked every day from 8 am to 6pm and after six months decided to take a long holiday away from the hum drum of his work.
#idiomatic_expression
#phrases
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✨behind the scenes✨
= secretly, while other things are happening publicly
🎥Behind the scenes, both sides are working towards an agreement.
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= secretly, while other things are happening publicly
🎥Behind the scenes, both sides are working towards an agreement.
#idiomatic_expression
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