✨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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🚩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.
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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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🔻I'm glad ....... there for Sally. She really needed someone and I was the only person supporting her. 1️⃣ to be 2️⃣ to have been 3️⃣ being 4️⃣ having been
✨Thank you all!🌹
➖Correct answer:
2️⃣ to have been
We need to use the perfect infinitive to make clear that the action expressed by the infinitive was previous to the action described by the main verb.
🔸Compare:
🔹I'm glad to be there. (=now)
🔹I'm glad to have been there. (=in the past)
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➖Correct answer:
2️⃣ to have been
We need to use the perfect infinitive to make clear that the action expressed by the infinitive was previous to the action described by the main verb.
🔸Compare:
🔹I'm glad to be there. (=now)
🔹I'm glad to have been there. (=in the past)
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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.…
🔰Sounds change (assimilation)2️⃣
Because of the place in the mouth where certain sounds are made, sometimes the sound at the end of the first word changes to a completely different sound.
✨Can go. We can go now. (cang go)
✨Can buy. We can buy it. (cam buy)
✨Green Park. I walked through Green Park. (greem park)
✨On Monday. He arrives on Monday. (om Monday)
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Because of the place in the mouth where certain sounds are made, sometimes the sound at the end of the first word changes to a completely different sound.
✨Can go. We can go now. (cang go)
✨Can buy. We can buy it. (cam buy)
✨Green Park. I walked through Green Park. (greem park)
✨On Monday. He arrives on Monday. (om Monday)
#Pronunciation_tips
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