✳️ What’s the use of…?
used for saying that something is not likely to have a successful result, and so there is no point in doing it
EXAMPLES:
✅What’s the use of talking about it?
✅What’s the use of crying over spilt milk?
✅What’s the point of arguing with her?
✅ What’s the point of worrying about it?
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used for saying that something is not likely to have a successful result, and so there is no point in doing it
EXAMPLES:
✅What’s the use of talking about it?
✅What’s the use of crying over spilt milk?
✅What’s the point of arguing with her?
✅ What’s the point of worrying about it?
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✳️ Where there is… there is ...
EXAMPLES:
✅ Where there are difficulties, there are ways to get over them.
✅ Where there is opposition, there are rebellions.
✅ Where there is contact, there is friction.
✅ Where there are women, there are jealousy and suspicion.
✅ Where there is a will, there is a way
EXAMPLES:
✅ Where there are difficulties, there are ways to get over them.
✅ Where there is opposition, there are rebellions.
✅ Where there is contact, there is friction.
✅ Where there are women, there are jealousy and suspicion.
✅ Where there is a will, there is a way
❇️ Expression to learn
▶️ book up
be booked up (always passive)
❇️if an event, person, or place is booked up, they have no space or time available for someone
✳️The hotel's conference rooms are booked up two years in advance.
✳️The dentist is booked up today, could you manage later in the week?
✳️I'd love to come, but I'm completely booked up this week.
▶️ book up
be booked up (always passive)
❇️if an event, person, or place is booked up, they have no space or time available for someone
✳️The hotel's conference rooms are booked up two years in advance.
✳️The dentist is booked up today, could you manage later in the week?
✳️I'd love to come, but I'm completely booked up this week.
Thankful/Grateful/Appreciative
📗These words all indicate warm feelings or expressions of gratitude. Grateful and thankful are close in meaning, but one distinction is commonly observed in that grateful is used to describe our feelings of gratitude to another person, and thankful refers to similar feelings towards divine providence, fate, or some less immediate agency. One is grateful for a gift or a kind word, but thankful for good health or fair weather.
📓Appreciative, more than the other two words, indicates a demonstration of the gratitude a person feels: a secretary who was so appreciative of the opportunity for advancement offered to her that she worked overtime even when not asked to do so.
📗These words all indicate warm feelings or expressions of gratitude. Grateful and thankful are close in meaning, but one distinction is commonly observed in that grateful is used to describe our feelings of gratitude to another person, and thankful refers to similar feelings towards divine providence, fate, or some less immediate agency. One is grateful for a gift or a kind word, but thankful for good health or fair weather.
📓Appreciative, more than the other two words, indicates a demonstration of the gratitude a person feels: a secretary who was so appreciative of the opportunity for advancement offered to her that she worked overtime even when not asked to do so.
💎Chew vs Masticate💎
📗Chew and masticate are synonymous in designating a crushing or grinding with the teeth. The difference between the two words is that masticate, in addition to being more formal than chew, is said only in reference to food that is swallowed after the crushing or grinding action. One speaks, for example, of chewing gum but never of masticating it.
📗Chew and masticate are synonymous in designating a crushing or grinding with the teeth. The difference between the two words is that masticate, in addition to being more formal than chew, is said only in reference to food that is swallowed after the crushing or grinding action. One speaks, for example, of chewing gum but never of masticating it.
👁Expectation and reality👁
📓We use a past tense to refer to a belief that has just been shown to be true or false.
📘It's not as big as I expected. (NOT ... as I have expected.)
📙You're older than I thought. (NOT... than I have thought.)
📗But you promised ...! (NOT But you have promised....)
📓We use a past tense to refer to a belief that has just been shown to be true or false.
📘It's not as big as I expected. (NOT ... as I have expected.)
📙You're older than I thought. (NOT... than I have thought.)
📗But you promised ...! (NOT But you have promised....)
It is possible to use SOME in questions where the speaker has some expectation that the answer will be positive:
= Is some of the information useful? (I expect that part of it is.)
= Is any of the information useful? (I have no idea if it is useful or not.)
= Is some of the information useful? (I expect that part of it is.)
= Is any of the information useful? (I have no idea if it is useful or not.)
In Company with vs in the Company of
📗Care must be taken not to confuse the two idioms ‘in company with’, and ‘in the company of’. ‘In company with’ means ‘accompanied by’, or ‘together with’, and can be used of non animate things, as well as of human beings.
Plague, in company with famine, killed almost half the population.
📘‘In the company of’ means ‘in the presence of’, or ‘having whoever is mentioned as company’. It is normally used only of human beings, though it may sometimes be applied to animals.
She was shy in the company of strangers.
Rover could be very quarrelsome when in the company of other dogs.
📓Keep company with: frequent the company of.
Never keep company with dishonest persons.
📗For company: in order to provide company.
As the journey was a long one, he took a friend with him for company.
📗Care must be taken not to confuse the two idioms ‘in company with’, and ‘in the company of’. ‘In company with’ means ‘accompanied by’, or ‘together with’, and can be used of non animate things, as well as of human beings.
Plague, in company with famine, killed almost half the population.
📘‘In the company of’ means ‘in the presence of’, or ‘having whoever is mentioned as company’. It is normally used only of human beings, though it may sometimes be applied to animals.
She was shy in the company of strangers.
Rover could be very quarrelsome when in the company of other dogs.
📓Keep company with: frequent the company of.
Never keep company with dishonest persons.
📗For company: in order to provide company.
As the journey was a long one, he took a friend with him for company.
🔍Spotlight🔍
📗The only two cases in which to might be used with here and there.
📕The to is generally impossible with here and there:
?She's travelling to here by car.
📓However, the above sentence might be acceptable if here, accompanied by a gesture, refers to a location on a map. For some native speakers, to can also occur after back:
📘She's coming back to here.
📗The only two cases in which to might be used with here and there.
📕The to is generally impossible with here and there:
?She's travelling to here by car.
📓However, the above sentence might be acceptable if here, accompanied by a gesture, refers to a location on a map. For some native speakers, to can also occur after back:
📘She's coming back to here.
💎Washing vs Washing-up💎
- I've done the washing.
- I've made the washing.
- I've done the washing-up.
- I've made the washing-up.
📗Do the washing refers to clothes; do the washing-up refers to dishes and pans.
- I've done the washing.
- I've made the washing.
- I've done the washing-up.
- I've made the washing-up.
📗Do the washing refers to clothes; do the washing-up refers to dishes and pans.
Note that we say space (without 'the') when we mean 'space in the universe':
There are millions of stars in space. (Not ... in the space)
But:
I tried to park my car but the space was too small.
There are millions of stars in space. (Not ... in the space)
But:
I tried to park my car but the space was too small.
If been is followed by an adjective, it's the past participle of to be.
I've been sick for a week.
If been is followed by to, it's the past participle of to go.
I've been to Japan three times.
I've been sick for a week.
If been is followed by to, it's the past participle of to go.
I've been to Japan three times.
A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes when it is capitalized. E.g.:
March/march
Polish/polish
August/august
China/china
Lent/lent
Hamlet/hamlet
Fiat/fiat
Mark/mark
March/march
Polish/polish
August/august
China/china
Lent/lent
Hamlet/hamlet
Fiat/fiat
Mark/mark
💎Way of doing sth or way to do sth?
📗You can say “way of doing something” or “way to do something.” There is no difference in meaning:
❶) This is the most effective way of helping the unemployed.
❶) What is the best way to help a child with reading problems?
Be Careful!
📓If you use a possessive with “way,” you must use “of” and
an “-ing” form after it.
❸) I have to fit in with her way of doing things. ✓
❹) They are part of the author's way of telling his story. ✓
❺) They are part of the author's way to tell his story. ✗
Be Careful!
📙Don't use a to-infinitive. Don't say, for example, 'I have to
fit in with her way to do things'.
📗You can say “way of doing something” or “way to do something.” There is no difference in meaning:
❶) This is the most effective way of helping the unemployed.
❶) What is the best way to help a child with reading problems?
Be Careful!
📓If you use a possessive with “way,” you must use “of” and
an “-ing” form after it.
❸) I have to fit in with her way of doing things. ✓
❹) They are part of the author's way of telling his story. ✓
❺) They are part of the author's way to tell his story. ✗
Be Careful!
📙Don't use a to-infinitive. Don't say, for example, 'I have to
fit in with her way to do things'.
In a negative non-defining clause, you put ‘not’ in front of the participle/having. However, ‘not’ goes before ‘to’ in an infinitive verb. You say:
❶) He didn't recognize her at first, not having seen her for 15 years or so ✓
Don't say:
❷) He didn't recognize her at first, having not seen her for 15 years or so. ✗
❶) He didn't recognize her at first, not having seen her for 15 years or so ✓
Don't say:
❷) He didn't recognize her at first, having not seen her for 15 years or so. ✗
💎 Rain, fall or come down? 💎
📗 Rain is the most frequent verb and is used with the subject it. Fall and come down are used with a subject such as rain or snow. Fall is used when giving precise measurements of rainfall.
❶) 70 millimetres of rain fell in just a few hours. ✓
❷) 70 millimetres of rain came down in just a few hours. ✗
❸) It rained 70 millimetres of rain in just a few hours. ✗
📕Come down is often used with a description of how the rain falls.
❹) The rain was coming down in a solid curtain. ✓
📗 Rain is the most frequent verb and is used with the subject it. Fall and come down are used with a subject such as rain or snow. Fall is used when giving precise measurements of rainfall.
❶) 70 millimetres of rain fell in just a few hours. ✓
❷) 70 millimetres of rain came down in just a few hours. ✗
❸) It rained 70 millimetres of rain in just a few hours. ✗
📕Come down is often used with a description of how the rain falls.
❹) The rain was coming down in a solid curtain. ✓
💎There is/are vs. has got💎
📚There's is/are and has got are closely related in meaning:
❶) The classroom has got a blackboard.✓
❷) There is a blackboard in the classroom.✓
📚We use has got mainly for describing permanent features, e.g. walls, blackboard. We say:
❶) There are flowers in the classroom.✓
But not:
❷) The classroom has got flowers.✗
#Grammar
📚There's is/are and has got are closely related in meaning:
❶) The classroom has got a blackboard.✓
❷) There is a blackboard in the classroom.✓
📚We use has got mainly for describing permanent features, e.g. walls, blackboard. We say:
❶) There are flowers in the classroom.✓
But not:
❷) The classroom has got flowers.✗
#Grammar
📕Verbs like ‘seem’ take adjective phrases as complement, but not participial clauses. They can therefore substitute for ‘be’ in (2), but not in (1):
(1) They are entertaining the prime minister and her husband. ✓
They seem entertaining the prime minister and her husband. ✗
(2) The show was/seemed entertaining. ✓
(1) They are entertaining the prime minister and her husband. ✓
They seem entertaining the prime minister and her husband. ✗
(2) The show was/seemed entertaining. ✓
Proclaim (O dear Prophet Mohammed ﷺ), “He is Allah, He is One.” (112:1)
“Allah is the Un-wanting.” (Perfect, does not require anything.) (112:2)
“He has no offspring, nor is He born from anything.” (112:3)
“And there is none equal to Him.” (112:4)
“Allah is the Un-wanting.” (Perfect, does not require anything.) (112:2)
“He has no offspring, nor is He born from anything.” (112:3)
“And there is none equal to Him.” (112:4)
SYNs: help, aid, assist, and succor
‘Help’ is the simplest and strongest of these words meaning to supply another with whatever is necessary to accomplish his or her ends or relieve his or her wants; ‘aid’ and ‘assist’ are somewhat more formal and weaker, ‘assist’ esp. implying a subordinate role in the helper and less need for help [she assisted him in his experiments]; ‘succor’ suggests timely help to one in distress [to succor a besieged city].
Antonym: hinder
‘Help’ is the simplest and strongest of these words meaning to supply another with whatever is necessary to accomplish his or her ends or relieve his or her wants; ‘aid’ and ‘assist’ are somewhat more formal and weaker, ‘assist’ esp. implying a subordinate role in the helper and less need for help [she assisted him in his experiments]; ‘succor’ suggests timely help to one in distress [to succor a besieged city].
Antonym: hinder