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✨continually / continuously✨
📗Continuously means something happens without stopping, without interruption:
🔹A waterfall has water continuously falling over the edge of a cliff.
🔹Your heartbeat and breathing are continuous.
📗Continually means something happens frequently/repeatedly:
🔹A wife might continually remind her forgetful husband to take out the trash ➡️ meaning she reminds him multiple times.
🔹If you have an old car, it might continually break down ➡️ it breaks down very frequently.
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✨continually / continuously✨
📗Continuously means something happens without stopping, without interruption:
🔹A waterfall has water continuously falling over the edge of a cliff.
🔹Your heartbeat and breathing are continuous.
📗Continually means something happens frequently/repeatedly:
🔹A wife might continually remind her forgetful husband to take out the trash ➡️ meaning she reminds him multiple times.
🔹If you have an old car, it might continually break down ➡️ it breaks down very frequently.
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ADVERSE 🆚 AVERSE
✨Adverse = harmful ➡️(often followed by the word “effects”)
✨Averse = strong feeling of dislike ➡️(often followed by “to”)
🔹Rainstorms can cause “ADVERSE” conditions, and many people are “AVERSE” to rain.
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✨Adverse = harmful ➡️(often followed by the word “effects”)
✨Averse = strong feeling of dislike ➡️(often followed by “to”)
🔹Rainstorms can cause “ADVERSE” conditions, and many people are “AVERSE” to rain.
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AFFLICT 🆚 INFLICT
✨Both afflict and inflict cause pain
🔹AFFLICT = to cause suffering or unhappiness, something a disease does
🔹INFLICT = to force pain or suffering, like if you smack someone upside the head.
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✨Both afflict and inflict cause pain
🔹AFFLICT = to cause suffering or unhappiness, something a disease does
🔹INFLICT = to force pain or suffering, like if you smack someone upside the head.
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ALLUSION 🆚 ILLUSION 🆚 DELUSION
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✨Novelists love an ALLUSION ➡️ an indirect reference to something like a secret treasure for the reader to find.📖
✨Magicians heart ILLUSIONS ➡️ fanciful fake-outs.🎩🔮
✨Tricksters suffer from DELUSIONS ➡️ ideas that have no basis in reality.😶
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Novelists, magicians, and other tricksters keep these words busy!
✨Novelists love an ALLUSION ➡️ an indirect reference to something like a secret treasure for the reader to find.📖
✨Magicians heart ILLUSIONS ➡️ fanciful fake-outs.🎩🔮
✨Tricksters suffer from DELUSIONS ➡️ ideas that have no basis in reality.😶
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Particularly 🆚 In Particular
🚩“In particular” is an idiomatic expression that means “in distinction from others” or “specifically.”
This expression usually refers to NOUNS. It can be used in many places in a sentence, and is set apart by a comma when it occurs at the beginning of a sentence or phrase.
🔹In particular, I like their mango tres leches dessert.
🔹I like their desserts; in particular, the mango tres leches.
🔹I like their desserts, the mango tres leches in particular.
🚩“Particularly” means “in detail” or “to an unusual degree.”
It is an adverb, and as such it can be used to modify a VERB, an ADJECTIVE, or another ADVERB, not nouns. It is NOT set off by a comma from the rest of the sentence.
🔹I particularly like their mango tres leches dessert.⏩(modifies the verb “like”)
🔹Their mango tres leches dessert is particularly good.⏩(modifies the adjective “good”)
🔹Their mango tres leches dessert tends to run out particularly quickly.⏩(modifies the adverb “quickly”)
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🚩“In particular” is an idiomatic expression that means “in distinction from others” or “specifically.”
This expression usually refers to NOUNS. It can be used in many places in a sentence, and is set apart by a comma when it occurs at the beginning of a sentence or phrase.
🔹In particular, I like their mango tres leches dessert.
🔹I like their desserts; in particular, the mango tres leches.
🔹I like their desserts, the mango tres leches in particular.
🚩“Particularly” means “in detail” or “to an unusual degree.”
It is an adverb, and as such it can be used to modify a VERB, an ADJECTIVE, or another ADVERB, not nouns. It is NOT set off by a comma from the rest of the sentence.
🔹I particularly like their mango tres leches dessert.⏩(modifies the verb “like”)
🔹Their mango tres leches dessert is particularly good.⏩(modifies the adjective “good”)
🔹Their mango tres leches dessert tends to run out particularly quickly.⏩(modifies the adverb “quickly”)
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ABSENT 🆚 AWAY
🔹I'm going on holiday and I'll be away for a fortnight. (preferable to absent)
🔹How many students were absent from your class today? (Not *away*)
⭕️AWAY = elsewhere
⭕️ABSENT = not present
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🔹I'm going on holiday and I'll be away for a fortnight. (preferable to absent)
🔹How many students were absent from your class today? (Not *away*)
⭕️AWAY = elsewhere
⭕️ABSENT = not present
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Dependant 🆚 Dependent
✨Dependant (noun) = A person who depends on someone else for support
➖Tax credits can be used to support low earners with multiple dependants.
✨Dependent (adjective) = Contingent or reliant upon something
➖The accuracy of the experiment is dependent on the quality of equipment used.(= contingent)
➖I’m dependent upon my family for rent money, since my internship is unpaid.(= reliant)
💡As such, ‘dependant’ always names a thing (typically a person), while ‘dependent’ is used to describe a relationship between two things (where one relies upon the other). Remember!👌🏻
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✨Dependant (noun) = A person who depends on someone else for support
➖Tax credits can be used to support low earners with multiple dependants.
✨Dependent (adjective) = Contingent or reliant upon something
➖The accuracy of the experiment is dependent on the quality of equipment used.(= contingent)
➖I’m dependent upon my family for rent money, since my internship is unpaid.(= reliant)
💡As such, ‘dependant’ always names a thing (typically a person), while ‘dependent’ is used to describe a relationship between two things (where one relies upon the other). Remember!👌🏻
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🔻Almost or nearly?🔻
We use almost and nearly to refer to the progress of things, especially if we are measuring and counting things. In these examples, almost and nearly can both be used:
✨[someone has been running five miles on a running machine in a gym]
➖Don’t give up! You’re almost there.
➖It’s time for bed. It’s nearly 10 o’clock.
➖Their CD has sold almost 90,000 copies in the last week.
➖Nearly all my friends were in the photograph.
✨We also use almost and nearly with extreme adjectives such as perfect, impossible or frozen:
➖That guy is almost impossible.
➖The chicken is still nearly frozen. I thought you’d taken it out of the freezer.
✨We use almost (but not nearly) to soften statements:
➖I almost wish I hadn’t offered to pay his fine.
✨We use almost before any and before negative words such as no, none, never, nobody, nothing. We don’t use nearly in this way:
✨[describing computer software which traces the history of towns]
➖Using this special software, you can find the history of almost any building.
➖They’ve almost no confidence that they can use the new phone properly.
➖She almost never raises her voice.
❌Not: She nearly never raises her voice.
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We use almost and nearly to refer to the progress of things, especially if we are measuring and counting things. In these examples, almost and nearly can both be used:
✨[someone has been running five miles on a running machine in a gym]
➖Don’t give up! You’re almost there.
➖It’s time for bed. It’s nearly 10 o’clock.
➖Their CD has sold almost 90,000 copies in the last week.
➖Nearly all my friends were in the photograph.
✨We also use almost and nearly with extreme adjectives such as perfect, impossible or frozen:
➖That guy is almost impossible.
➖The chicken is still nearly frozen. I thought you’d taken it out of the freezer.
✨We use almost (but not nearly) to soften statements:
➖I almost wish I hadn’t offered to pay his fine.
✨We use almost before any and before negative words such as no, none, never, nobody, nothing. We don’t use nearly in this way:
✨[describing computer software which traces the history of towns]
➖Using this special software, you can find the history of almost any building.
➖They’ve almost no confidence that they can use the new phone properly.
➖She almost never raises her voice.
❌Not: She nearly never raises her voice.
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🔺Along or alongside?🔻
Along and alongside are #prepositions or #adverbs.
⚪️Along
As a preposition, along means ‘in a line next to something long and thin’, e.g. a road, a path:
➖There were lots of shops along the main street.
➖I saw three different boats along the bank of the river.
✨We use along as an adverb with verbs of motion meaning ‘together with’:
➖Why don’t you come along with us to the party?
➖They said they’d bring the bikes along and we can ride to the swimming pool.
⚫️Alongside
As a preposition, alongside means ‘close beside’, ‘next to’ or ‘together with’:
➖The trees alongside the fence have all been damaged by the wind. (near)
➖Put your bike alongside mine. (next to)
➖I find it difficult to cope with this illness alongside all my other problems. (together with)
✨We also use alongside as an adverb, meaning ‘along the side of’ or ‘next to’ something:
➖I parked my car in the drive and William parked his alongside.
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Along and alongside are #prepositions or #adverbs.
⚪️Along
As a preposition, along means ‘in a line next to something long and thin’, e.g. a road, a path:
➖There were lots of shops along the main street.
➖I saw three different boats along the bank of the river.
✨We use along as an adverb with verbs of motion meaning ‘together with’:
➖Why don’t you come along with us to the party?
➖They said they’d bring the bikes along and we can ride to the swimming pool.
⚫️Alongside
As a preposition, alongside means ‘close beside’, ‘next to’ or ‘together with’:
➖The trees alongside the fence have all been damaged by the wind. (near)
➖Put your bike alongside mine. (next to)
➖I find it difficult to cope with this illness alongside all my other problems. (together with)
✨We also use alongside as an adverb, meaning ‘along the side of’ or ‘next to’ something:
➖I parked my car in the drive and William parked his alongside.
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🔻Amount of, number of or quantity of?🔻
✨Amount of or number of?
We use amount of with uncountable nouns. Number of is used with countable nouns:
➖We use a huge amount of paper in the office every day.
➖The amount of time it took to finish the job was very frustrating.
➖I have a number of things I want to talk to you about.
➖A great number of students volunteer each year for environmental projects.
🚫Not: A great amount of students volunteer …✘
✨A quantity of or quantities of?
Quantity is more #formal than amount or number. A quantity of or quantities of can be followed by a countable noun or an uncountable noun. They are most commonly used with an adjective such as huge, big, large, small:
➖The soldiers discovered a large quantity of weapons hidden under the floor of a disused building. (countable)
➖You only need a very small quantity of cement to mix with the sand. (uncountable)
➖Large quantities of illegal drugs had been discovered. (countable)
➖Aid workers have delivered huge quantities of food to the refugee camps. (uncountable)
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✨Amount of or number of?
We use amount of with uncountable nouns. Number of is used with countable nouns:
➖We use a huge amount of paper in the office every day.
➖The amount of time it took to finish the job was very frustrating.
➖I have a number of things I want to talk to you about.
➖A great number of students volunteer each year for environmental projects.
🚫Not: A great amount of students volunteer …✘
✨A quantity of or quantities of?
Quantity is more #formal than amount or number. A quantity of or quantities of can be followed by a countable noun or an uncountable noun. They are most commonly used with an adjective such as huge, big, large, small:
➖The soldiers discovered a large quantity of weapons hidden under the floor of a disused building. (countable)
➖You only need a very small quantity of cement to mix with the sand. (uncountable)
➖Large quantities of illegal drugs had been discovered. (countable)
➖Aid workers have delivered huge quantities of food to the refugee camps. (uncountable)
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🔻Ambivalent = unable to decide something because you have two different feelings.
🔻Ambiguous = unable to understand something because it has two or more different meanings.
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🔻Ambiguous = unable to understand something because it has two or more different meanings.
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✨ Nearly 🆚 Almost
🔻Nearly and Almost are only interchangeable in the affirmative
🔸 There's not nearly enough food here to feed twenty people.
🔸I think there's almost/nearly enough food here to feed a dozen people.
🔸Almost /Nearly all cars use unleaded petrol these days.
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🔻Nearly and Almost are only interchangeable in the affirmative
🔸 There's not nearly enough food here to feed twenty people.
🔸I think there's almost/nearly enough food here to feed a dozen people.
🔸Almost /Nearly all cars use unleaded petrol these days.
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✨ Alert 🆚 Alarm
🔻Alert = warn someone of the danger
🔸In case of fire, alert the hotel guests.
🔻Alarm = make someone feel anxious
🔸Don't alarm us with awful tales about the dangers of air travel.
🔸Don't alarm us with awful tales about the dangers of air travel.
🔸This door activates an alarm.
🔸We got alarmed when we found the door wide open.
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🔻Alert = warn someone of the danger
🔸In case of fire, alert the hotel guests.
🔻Alarm = make someone feel anxious
🔸Don't alarm us with awful tales about the dangers of air travel.
🔸Don't alarm us with awful tales about the dangers of air travel.
🔸This door activates an alarm.
🔸We got alarmed when we found the door wide open.
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✨ Agree to 🆚 Agree with 🆚 Agree on
🔻agree to something
🔸 I agree to the proposal.
🔻agree with someone
🔸I agree with you.
🔻agree on = agree about
🔸Surely we can agree on this.
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🔻agree to something
🔸 I agree to the proposal.
🔻agree with someone
🔸I agree with you.
🔻agree on = agree about
🔸Surely we can agree on this.
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✨ Diary 🆚 Agenda
🔻Diary = a book with spaces for days of the year
🔸 I've made a note of your birthday in my diary.
🔻Agenda = schedule of business at a meeting
🔸What's the first item on the agenda?
🔸We had to work through three agendas!
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🔻Diary = a book with spaces for days of the year
🔸 I've made a note of your birthday in my diary.
🔻Agenda = schedule of business at a meeting
🔸What's the first item on the agenda?
🔸We had to work through three agendas!
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✨ Disturb 🆚 Bother 🆚 Annoy
🔻Disturb = interrupt someone while they’re working, etc.
🔸 Don't disturb your father now. He's busy.
🔻Bother = make someone uncomfortable
🔸There are quite a few unexplained matters in this case that bother me.
🔻Annoy = make someone angry
🔸If you want to annoy Mr Ahmed, just ring his front doorbell.
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🔻Disturb = interrupt someone while they’re working, etc.
🔸 Don't disturb your father now. He's busy.
🔻Bother = make someone uncomfortable
🔸There are quite a few unexplained matters in this case that bother me.
🔻Annoy = make someone angry
🔸If you want to annoy Mr Ahmed, just ring his front doorbell.
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✨ Back 🆚 Again
🔻Back = returned someone’s hospitality
🔸 Sue invited us to dinner last month; it's time we invited her back.
🔻Again = on another occasion
🔸We enjoyed having our neighbours to dinner and we must invite them again.
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🔻Back = returned someone’s hospitality
🔸 Sue invited us to dinner last month; it's time we invited her back.
🔻Again = on another occasion
🔸We enjoyed having our neighbours to dinner and we must invite them again.
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✨ Later 🆚 After
🔻Later = refers to time = at a later time
🔸I arrived at the party first, and my husband arrived later.
🔻After = refers to sequence
🔸I arrived at the party first, and my husband arrived after me.
🔸I can quote the first line of 'To be or not to be', but I don't know what comes after.
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🔻Later = refers to time = at a later time
🔸I arrived at the party first, and my husband arrived later.
🔻After = refers to sequence
🔸I arrived at the party first, and my husband arrived after me.
🔸I can quote the first line of 'To be or not to be', but I don't know what comes after.
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✨ In 🆚 After
🔻In = within, before the end of
🔸 I’ll see you in a week.
🔸I'll see you in a week's time.
🔻After = at the end of
🔸It's hard to get back to work after a week on holiday!
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🔻In = within, before the end of
🔸 I’ll see you in a week.
🔸I'll see you in a week's time.
🔻After = at the end of
🔸It's hard to get back to work after a week on holiday!
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