🗣Speaking Tip: Don’t say “I’m fine”❌
Here are how native English speakers respond to “How are you?”
✨How are you?
🗣– I’m good, thanks. You?
✨How’s it going?
🗣– It’s going pretty good. And you?
✨How are you doing?
🗣– I’m doing great, thanks. Yourself?
✨How’s it going?
🗣– Ah, things have been better. What about you?
⚠️When you’re not doing so great, say “I’m not doing that great” instead of saying “so-so.”
✨Hey, what’s up?
🗣– Hey, what’s up?
✨How do you do?
🗣– How do you do?
⚠️“How do you do?” is not a question, asking how you’re doing. It’s just a formal way of saying “hello”. So the proper response is:
🗣“How do you do?”,
🗣“Hello”, or
🗣“Nice to meet you.”
So now that you know, stop saying “I’m fine” every time someone asks you “How are you?”🙂
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Here are how native English speakers respond to “How are you?”
✨How are you?
🗣– I’m good, thanks. You?
✨How’s it going?
🗣– It’s going pretty good. And you?
✨How are you doing?
🗣– I’m doing great, thanks. Yourself?
✨How’s it going?
🗣– Ah, things have been better. What about you?
⚠️When you’re not doing so great, say “I’m not doing that great” instead of saying “so-so.”
✨Hey, what’s up?
🗣– Hey, what’s up?
✨How do you do?
🗣– How do you do?
⚠️“How do you do?” is not a question, asking how you’re doing. It’s just a formal way of saying “hello”. So the proper response is:
🗣“How do you do?”,
🗣“Hello”, or
🗣“Nice to meet you.”
So now that you know, stop saying “I’m fine” every time someone asks you “How are you?”🙂
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🌼Day after day vs day by day
Day after day: a succession of days, one following the other without a break
Day after day went by, and still no message arrived.
Notice that day after day in the previous example is used as a subject (because it is followed by a verb [went]).
The adverbial use is the more frequent:
'We waited day after day, but the expected visitor never arrived'.
Day by day: each day, one following another.
Day by day the situation is improving.
The differences between this and day after day are:
(1) It thinks of each day separately and individually, whereas day after
day thinks of them as a continuous series
(2) That it can be used only adverbially, whereas day after day can be used as the subject of a verb (notice the examples for both expressions)
(3) It means all the time; a little at a time and gradually, whereas day after day means each day repeatedly (used especially when something is boring or annoying).
Day by day his condition is improved.
She hates doing the same work day after day.
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Day after day: a succession of days, one following the other without a break
Day after day went by, and still no message arrived.
Notice that day after day in the previous example is used as a subject (because it is followed by a verb [went]).
The adverbial use is the more frequent:
'We waited day after day, but the expected visitor never arrived'.
Day by day: each day, one following another.
Day by day the situation is improving.
The differences between this and day after day are:
(1) It thinks of each day separately and individually, whereas day after
day thinks of them as a continuous series
(2) That it can be used only adverbially, whereas day after day can be used as the subject of a verb (notice the examples for both expressions)
(3) It means all the time; a little at a time and gradually, whereas day after day means each day repeatedly (used especially when something is boring or annoying).
Day by day his condition is improved.
She hates doing the same work day after day.
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🔹Essential American Idioms🔹
⭐️#ACHIEVEMENT
✨Find one's own level ▶️ to find the position or rank to which one is best suited. (As water "seeks its own level.")
🔻You can not force clerks to be ambitious. They will all find their own level.
🔻The new student is happier in the beginning class. It was just a question of letting her find her own level.
✨Meet the requirements (for something) ▶️ to fulfill the requirements for something.
🔻Sally was unable to meet the requirements for the job.
🔻Jane met the requirements and was told to report to work the next day.
✨Pay one's dues ▶️ to have earned one's right to something through hard work or suffering. (#Informal.)
🔻He worked hard to get to where he is today. He paid his dues and did what he was told.
🔻I have every right to be here. I paid my dues!
✨Pull something off ▶️ to manage to make something happen. (#Informal.)
🔻Do you think you can pull off this deal?
🔻Yes, I can pull it off.
✨Rest on one's laurels ▶️ to enjoy one's success and not try to achieve more.
🔻Don't rest on your laurels. Try to continue to do great things!
🔻I think I'll rest on my laurels for a time before attempting anything new.
✨Run the good race ▶️ to do the best that one could; to live life as well and as fully as possible.
🔻He didn't get what he wanted, but he ran the good race.
🔻Joan ran the good race, and she will be remembered by all of us.
✨Get to first base (with someone or something) AND reach first base (with someone or something) ▶️ to make a major advance with someone or something. (#Informal. First base refers to baseball.)
🔻I wish I could get to first base with this business deal.
🔻John adores Sally, but he shirt? can't even reach first base with her. She won't even speak to him.
🔻He smiles and acts friendly, but he can't get to first base.
✨Go a long way toward doing something AND go a long way in doing something almost ▶️ to satisfy specific conditions; to be almost right.
🔻This machine goes a long way toward meeting our needs.
🔻Your plan went a long way in helping us with our problem.
✨Measure up (to someone's expectations) ▶️ to be as good as one expects.
🔻This meal doesn't measure up to my expectations.
🔻Why doesn't it measure up?
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⭐️#ACHIEVEMENT
✨Find one's own level ▶️ to find the position or rank to which one is best suited. (As water "seeks its own level.")
🔻You can not force clerks to be ambitious. They will all find their own level.
🔻The new student is happier in the beginning class. It was just a question of letting her find her own level.
✨Meet the requirements (for something) ▶️ to fulfill the requirements for something.
🔻Sally was unable to meet the requirements for the job.
🔻Jane met the requirements and was told to report to work the next day.
✨Pay one's dues ▶️ to have earned one's right to something through hard work or suffering. (#Informal.)
🔻He worked hard to get to where he is today. He paid his dues and did what he was told.
🔻I have every right to be here. I paid my dues!
✨Pull something off ▶️ to manage to make something happen. (#Informal.)
🔻Do you think you can pull off this deal?
🔻Yes, I can pull it off.
✨Rest on one's laurels ▶️ to enjoy one's success and not try to achieve more.
🔻Don't rest on your laurels. Try to continue to do great things!
🔻I think I'll rest on my laurels for a time before attempting anything new.
✨Run the good race ▶️ to do the best that one could; to live life as well and as fully as possible.
🔻He didn't get what he wanted, but he ran the good race.
🔻Joan ran the good race, and she will be remembered by all of us.
✨Get to first base (with someone or something) AND reach first base (with someone or something) ▶️ to make a major advance with someone or something. (#Informal. First base refers to baseball.)
🔻I wish I could get to first base with this business deal.
🔻John adores Sally, but he shirt? can't even reach first base with her. She won't even speak to him.
🔻He smiles and acts friendly, but he can't get to first base.
✨Go a long way toward doing something AND go a long way in doing something almost ▶️ to satisfy specific conditions; to be almost right.
🔻This machine goes a long way toward meeting our needs.
🔻Your plan went a long way in helping us with our problem.
✨Measure up (to someone's expectations) ▶️ to be as good as one expects.
🔻This meal doesn't measure up to my expectations.
🔻Why doesn't it measure up?
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⭐️Prepositions with CLAW⭐️
📕This verb can be used either transitively, or intransitively with the preposition at. The tranastive use directs more attention to the object that is being clawed.
🔺'The cat was clawing the door'
➡️suggests that it might damage the door by scratching it.
🔺'The cat was clawing at the door'
➡️suggests that it was trying to attract attention because it wanted the door to be opened.
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📕This verb can be used either transitively, or intransitively with the preposition at. The tranastive use directs more attention to the object that is being clawed.
🔺'The cat was clawing the door'
➡️suggests that it might damage the door by scratching it.
🔺'The cat was clawing at the door'
➡️suggests that it was trying to attract attention because it wanted the door to be opened.
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⭐️Some For Constructions⭐️
📚For enters many constructions where it is difficult to attach any definite meaning to it apart from the construction as a whole. Two in particular may be noticed here.
📕A. If it were not for. If it had not been for. These express the idea that the position would be different if the circumstances mentioned were (or had been) other than they are (or were).
🔺If it were not for the generosity of his father he would be pretty badly off.
🔺If it had not been for your foolishness we should never have been in this plight.
🔺I should have given up this job long ago, if it were not for my family.
📘In written and more formal spoken English, were it not for and had it not been for may be used.
🔺Had it not been for your help, I could never have done it.
📗B. That in which for is followed by an accusative + infinitive, the entire group conveying the sense of a clause. It is exmpified in such a sentence as🔺It would be best for the secretary to write to him (i.e not best for the secretary, but best for the object we have in view, or best from the point of view of etiquette). For the secretary to write to him could be replaced by the clause 'if the secretary were to write to him'. Similarly, 🔺It is a disgrace for him to act in that way = 'that he should act in that way'.
📒The construction may have originated with the type🔺 'It is not good for children to have too much money', where the words that follow for do not really constitute an accusative + infinitive group, since children is the object of for, with which it forms an adverb phrase modifying good, and to have too much money is in apposition to it. The sense of the sentence is, 'To have too much money is not good for children'. But then, by analogy there arises the type,🔺'It is a mistake for children to have too much money', which, though at first sight it looks the same, is syntactically different from the other; it is not a mistake for children, but a mistake on the part of those who give them the money. The natural division of the first sentence is, It is not good for children / to have too much money; of the second, It is a mistake / for children to have too much money.📗 Here we have moved on to the genuine accusative + infinitive construction.
📔This construction can be used in several ways, viz.
📕1- As a subject.
🔺For a Pope to travel in an aeroplane is something without precedent in history.
🔺For the son of a working man to go university was something undreamed of a century ago.
📗2- In apposition to an introductory it.
🔺In most schools it is the custom for the headmaster to conduct morning assembly
🔺In country districts it was no uncommon thing for children to walk two or three miles to school each day.
📘3- As a complement.
🔺In most Nonconformist churches the usual custom is for the minister to take the entire services.
📓4- To express result.
🔺In that company you had only to mention football for a heated argument to start.
📕5- To express condition.
🔺It would be best for me to see him personally.
📘Attention may be drawn to another construction which superficially looks like the one discussed above (and which therefore may be confused with it), but which actually is different. It is exemplified in the following sentences.
🔺It is not for me to say how to spend your money.
🔺Whether he shall be allowed to return to the school is for the headmaster to decide.
🔺I am not going to tell you the solution of the problem; that is for you to find out.
Here for indicates a right, duty, privilege, obligation, etc., that rests upon the person or persons in question.
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📚For enters many constructions where it is difficult to attach any definite meaning to it apart from the construction as a whole. Two in particular may be noticed here.
📕A. If it were not for. If it had not been for. These express the idea that the position would be different if the circumstances mentioned were (or had been) other than they are (or were).
🔺If it were not for the generosity of his father he would be pretty badly off.
🔺If it had not been for your foolishness we should never have been in this plight.
🔺I should have given up this job long ago, if it were not for my family.
📘In written and more formal spoken English, were it not for and had it not been for may be used.
🔺Had it not been for your help, I could never have done it.
📗B. That in which for is followed by an accusative + infinitive, the entire group conveying the sense of a clause. It is exmpified in such a sentence as🔺It would be best for the secretary to write to him (i.e not best for the secretary, but best for the object we have in view, or best from the point of view of etiquette). For the secretary to write to him could be replaced by the clause 'if the secretary were to write to him'. Similarly, 🔺It is a disgrace for him to act in that way = 'that he should act in that way'.
📒The construction may have originated with the type🔺 'It is not good for children to have too much money', where the words that follow for do not really constitute an accusative + infinitive group, since children is the object of for, with which it forms an adverb phrase modifying good, and to have too much money is in apposition to it. The sense of the sentence is, 'To have too much money is not good for children'. But then, by analogy there arises the type,🔺'It is a mistake for children to have too much money', which, though at first sight it looks the same, is syntactically different from the other; it is not a mistake for children, but a mistake on the part of those who give them the money. The natural division of the first sentence is, It is not good for children / to have too much money; of the second, It is a mistake / for children to have too much money.📗 Here we have moved on to the genuine accusative + infinitive construction.
📔This construction can be used in several ways, viz.
📕1- As a subject.
🔺For a Pope to travel in an aeroplane is something without precedent in history.
🔺For the son of a working man to go university was something undreamed of a century ago.
📗2- In apposition to an introductory it.
🔺In most schools it is the custom for the headmaster to conduct morning assembly
🔺In country districts it was no uncommon thing for children to walk two or three miles to school each day.
📘3- As a complement.
🔺In most Nonconformist churches the usual custom is for the minister to take the entire services.
📓4- To express result.
🔺In that company you had only to mention football for a heated argument to start.
📕5- To express condition.
🔺It would be best for me to see him personally.
📘Attention may be drawn to another construction which superficially looks like the one discussed above (and which therefore may be confused with it), but which actually is different. It is exemplified in the following sentences.
🔺It is not for me to say how to spend your money.
🔺Whether he shall be allowed to return to the school is for the headmaster to decide.
🔺I am not going to tell you the solution of the problem; that is for you to find out.
Here for indicates a right, duty, privilege, obligation, etc., that rests upon the person or persons in question.
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⭐️Prepositions with Difficult ⭐️
📕When used predicatively, difficult is usually followed by an infinitive (e.g 🔺an object difficult to obtain, 🔺an explanation difficult to follow), 📙but with certain words there is an alternative construction ➡️ consisting of of followed by a verbal noun:🔺an object difficult of attainment,🔺a task difficult of accomplishment,🔺an aim difficult of achievement,🔺a problem difficult of solution. 📌This construction is possible only when the noun that follows of is implied in the one that precedes difficult. (An object is something that we wish to attain, a task is something that we wish to accomplish, an aim is something that we wish to achieve, and a problem is something that is to be solved.)
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📕When used predicatively, difficult is usually followed by an infinitive (e.g 🔺an object difficult to obtain, 🔺an explanation difficult to follow), 📙but with certain words there is an alternative construction ➡️ consisting of of followed by a verbal noun:🔺an object difficult of attainment,🔺a task difficult of accomplishment,🔺an aim difficult of achievement,🔺a problem difficult of solution. 📌This construction is possible only when the noun that follows of is implied in the one that precedes difficult. (An object is something that we wish to attain, a task is something that we wish to accomplish, an aim is something that we wish to achieve, and a problem is something that is to be solved.)
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⭐️Prepositions with Pain⭐️
📚1- Pain (= agony, anguish.)
📗For pain: because of, or on account of pain. (See also with pain, below.)
🔺I couldn't sleep for pain.
📒In pain: suffering pain.
🔺That child looks as though it is in pain.
🔺For the last week there has been scarcely an hour when I have have not been in pain.
🔺Are you in pain?
📘With pain: because of, or on account of pain.
🔺As the dentist drew the tooth the child screamed with pain.
📌Note: With pain is used after positive verbs, for pain after negative ones, or after semi-negatives such as scarcely, hardly, etc.
📚2- Pain (= penalty).
📘On pain of: This phrase denotes the penalty for non-compliance with a condition, instruction, etc.
🔺He was banished from this country on pain of death.
📒Under pain of: This denotes the situation of the person to whom the penalty applies. ➡️Thus a person who is banished from his country on pain of death, is under pain of death if he returns.
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📚1- Pain (= agony, anguish.)
📗For pain: because of, or on account of pain. (See also with pain, below.)
🔺I couldn't sleep for pain.
📒In pain: suffering pain.
🔺That child looks as though it is in pain.
🔺For the last week there has been scarcely an hour when I have have not been in pain.
🔺Are you in pain?
📘With pain: because of, or on account of pain.
🔺As the dentist drew the tooth the child screamed with pain.
📌Note: With pain is used after positive verbs, for pain after negative ones, or after semi-negatives such as scarcely, hardly, etc.
📚2- Pain (= penalty).
📘On pain of: This phrase denotes the penalty for non-compliance with a condition, instruction, etc.
🔺He was banished from this country on pain of death.
📒Under pain of: This denotes the situation of the person to whom the penalty applies. ➡️Thus a person who is banished from his country on pain of death, is under pain of death if he returns.
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⭐️Prepositions with Plenty⭐️
📕Plenty of time, money, food, opportunities, etc.,📌 but plenty more (not of more).
🔺If you have missed the chance, don't worry; there will be plenty more.
🔺We are rather short of sugar, but we've plenty more milk.
📗In plenty: in abundance. (Not in common use.)
🔺There was food in plenty.
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📕Plenty of time, money, food, opportunities, etc.,📌 but plenty more (not of more).
🔺If you have missed the chance, don't worry; there will be plenty more.
🔺We are rather short of sugar, but we've plenty more milk.
📗In plenty: in abundance. (Not in common use.)
🔺There was food in plenty.
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