♻️🔰Slang of the Day♻️🔰
💠goof off | goof around 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around
❕For example
🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.
🔺It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.
▫️Variety
This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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💠goof off | goof around 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around
❕For example
🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.
🔺It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.
▫️Variety
This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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⚜💠Idiom of the Day⚜💠
📚jog your memory
✍🏾Meaning
If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.
❗️For example
🔸The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.
🔸The police had a sketch of the suspect drawn and showed it to people in the area in the hope of jogging their memories.
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📚jog your memory
✍🏾Meaning
If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.
❗️For example
🔸The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.
🔸The police had a sketch of the suspect drawn and showed it to people in the area in the hope of jogging their memories.
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Great Ocean Road, Australia
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Head west from Melbourne on this coastal drive to see everything from the famous 12 Apostle rock formations, to koalas in Great Otway National Park as well as the charming seaside town of Lorne.
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Great Ocean Road, Australia
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Head west from Melbourne on this coastal drive to see everything from the famous 12 Apostle rock formations, to koalas in Great Otway National Park as well as the charming seaside town of Lorne.
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🦋🍂 🟢Grammar🟣 🦋
#Report speech
📕So when we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways.
✅ We can use direct speech with quotation marks
👉 ( "I work in a bank" )
or we can use reported speech👉 (He said he worked in a bank.)
✅In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence.
📕📘We can use all tenses👇👇
✅Direct speech: “I travel a lot in my job”
✅ Reported speech: He said that he travelled a lot in his job.
✅The present simple tense👇
(I travel) usually changes to the past simple
✅ (he travelled) in reported speech.
✅Direct speech: “Be quiet. The baby’s sleeping.”
✅ Reported speech: She told me to be quiet because the baby was sleeping.
👉The present continuous usually changes to the past continuous.
✅I work in Italy”
✅Reported speech: He told me that he works in Italy.
It isn’t always necessary to change the tense. If something is still true now – he still works in Italy – we can use the present simple in the reported sentence.
✅Past simple and past continuous tenses
✅Direct speech: We lived in China for 5 years.
✅Reported speech: She told me they had lived in China for 5 years.
✅The past simple tense
(we lived) usually changes to the past perfect (they had lived) in reported speech.
✅Direct speech: I was walking down the road when I saw the accident.
✅ Reported speech:
He told me he’d been walking down the road when he’d seen the accident.
📕The past continuous usually changes to the past perfect continuous.
📘Perfect tenses
📕📘Direct speech:
“They’ve always been very kind to me.
✅ Reported speech: She said they’d always been very kind to her.
📕The present perfect tense (have always been) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had always been).
📕Direct speech:
✅They had already eaten when I arrived.
📘 Reported speech: He said they’d already eaten when he’d arrived.
📕The past perfect tense does not change in reported speech.
✅This is the complete form of this grammar..
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#Report speech
📕So when we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways.
✅ We can use direct speech with quotation marks
👉 ( "I work in a bank" )
or we can use reported speech👉 (He said he worked in a bank.)
✅In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence.
📕📘We can use all tenses👇👇
✅Direct speech: “I travel a lot in my job”
✅ Reported speech: He said that he travelled a lot in his job.
✅The present simple tense👇
(I travel) usually changes to the past simple
✅ (he travelled) in reported speech.
✅Direct speech: “Be quiet. The baby’s sleeping.”
✅ Reported speech: She told me to be quiet because the baby was sleeping.
👉The present continuous usually changes to the past continuous.
✅I work in Italy”
✅Reported speech: He told me that he works in Italy.
It isn’t always necessary to change the tense. If something is still true now – he still works in Italy – we can use the present simple in the reported sentence.
✅Past simple and past continuous tenses
✅Direct speech: We lived in China for 5 years.
✅Reported speech: She told me they had lived in China for 5 years.
✅The past simple tense
(we lived) usually changes to the past perfect (they had lived) in reported speech.
✅Direct speech: I was walking down the road when I saw the accident.
✅ Reported speech:
He told me he’d been walking down the road when he’d seen the accident.
📕The past continuous usually changes to the past perfect continuous.
📘Perfect tenses
📕📘Direct speech:
“They’ve always been very kind to me.
✅ Reported speech: She said they’d always been very kind to her.
📕The present perfect tense (have always been) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had always been).
📕Direct speech:
✅They had already eaten when I arrived.
📘 Reported speech: He said they’d already eaten when he’d arrived.
📕The past perfect tense does not change in reported speech.
✅This is the complete form of this grammar..
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🦋✨
📕Careful of, with or about,
❌ not for.
❌ Don't say: Elke's very careful for her health.
✅ Say: Elke's very careful of/about her health.
✅ Or: You should be more careful with your money.
📘Believe in,
❌ not to.
❌ Don't say: We believe to God.
✅ Say: We believe in God.
📕Boast of or about,
❌ Not for.
❌ Don't say: James boasted for his strength.
✅ Say: James boasted of (or about) his strength.
📘Angry with,
❌not against.
❌ Don't say: The teacher was angry against him.
✅ Say: The teacher was angry with him.
📘Aim at,
❌ not on or against.
❌ Don't say: She aimed on (or against) the target.
✅ Say: She aimed at the target.
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📕Careful of, with or about,
❌ not for.
❌ Don't say: Elke's very careful for her health.
✅ Say: Elke's very careful of/about her health.
✅ Or: You should be more careful with your money.
📘Believe in,
❌ not to.
❌ Don't say: We believe to God.
✅ Say: We believe in God.
📕Boast of or about,
❌ Not for.
❌ Don't say: James boasted for his strength.
✅ Say: James boasted of (or about) his strength.
📘Angry with,
❌not against.
❌ Don't say: The teacher was angry against him.
✅ Say: The teacher was angry with him.
📘Aim at,
❌ not on or against.
❌ Don't say: She aimed on (or against) the target.
✅ Say: She aimed at the target.
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Forwarded from 🌸🔮 Wonderful Life 🌼
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John Paul DeJoria..✨
John Paul DeJoria isn't as much of a household name as Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, but he has accomplished feats of entrepreneurship and business management that rival theirs. Starting out as a newspaper courier, and working as a janitor and tow truck driver to make ends meet, DeJoria eventually started working at a hair care company, where he met Paul Mitchell.
With a loan of just $700, the two of them started a business that turned into the conglomerate now known as John Paul Mitchell Systems. Later, DeJoria co-founded Patron Spirits, and was a founding partner of the House of Blues chain. Today, he's worth more than $3.1 billion.
John Paul DeJoria..✨
John Paul DeJoria isn't as much of a household name as Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, but he has accomplished feats of entrepreneurship and business management that rival theirs. Starting out as a newspaper courier, and working as a janitor and tow truck driver to make ends meet, DeJoria eventually started working at a hair care company, where he met Paul Mitchell.
With a loan of just $700, the two of them started a business that turned into the conglomerate now known as John Paul Mitchell Systems. Later, DeJoria co-founded Patron Spirits, and was a founding partner of the House of Blues chain. Today, he's worth more than $3.1 billion.
📚📚📚The light of ignorance📚📚📚
I was riding a motorcycle on a rainy evening around 06.30 (it was not much dark outside). It is residential area where the traffic is very minimal. Numerous vehicles, like "birds returning to the nest" in the narrative, rush past me from the opposite direction. An high end AUDI vehicle passing me was full with high beam light in that narrow road which made me to stop as I could not see anything in the opposite. My eyes meet with darkness for five seconds each time in the merciless light of the mighty lights known as the 'High Beam'.
The car just blew long horn and asking me to go. The light of ignorance. I just told him, that it is not your mistake, when you purchased the vehicle, the Motor Vehicle Inspector failed to test you regarding the usage of high beam lights. That’s why you are roaming in the roads with great heights of ignorance. No use of telling you.
Eight of the ten oncoming vehicles come with powerful headlights. When I asked the four-wheeler driver who had slowed down at a speed limit, "Don't turn off the high beam light," he looked at me as if he were looking at something alien.
Motorists also have responsibilities beyond the law. Vehicles pass or crash in the stubbornness of whether we turn off the high beam lights first or the oncoming one. Those who do not know how to use high beam home lights are ignorantly obscured; That light flow is theirs.
The light of ignorance.
#uselowbeamlights
#useoursixthsense
#theworldbelongstoeveryone
#usecommonsense
#behuman
#staysafeandstayhealthy
#enjoyreading
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I was riding a motorcycle on a rainy evening around 06.30 (it was not much dark outside). It is residential area where the traffic is very minimal. Numerous vehicles, like "birds returning to the nest" in the narrative, rush past me from the opposite direction. An high end AUDI vehicle passing me was full with high beam light in that narrow road which made me to stop as I could not see anything in the opposite. My eyes meet with darkness for five seconds each time in the merciless light of the mighty lights known as the 'High Beam'.
The car just blew long horn and asking me to go. The light of ignorance. I just told him, that it is not your mistake, when you purchased the vehicle, the Motor Vehicle Inspector failed to test you regarding the usage of high beam lights. That’s why you are roaming in the roads with great heights of ignorance. No use of telling you.
Eight of the ten oncoming vehicles come with powerful headlights. When I asked the four-wheeler driver who had slowed down at a speed limit, "Don't turn off the high beam light," he looked at me as if he were looking at something alien.
Motorists also have responsibilities beyond the law. Vehicles pass or crash in the stubbornness of whether we turn off the high beam lights first or the oncoming one. Those who do not know how to use high beam home lights are ignorantly obscured; That light flow is theirs.
The light of ignorance.
#uselowbeamlights
#useoursixthsense
#theworldbelongstoeveryone
#usecommonsense
#behuman
#staysafeandstayhealthy
#enjoyreading
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🔅♻️🌐💠❔❓‼️
Why are people looking up phosphine?
Phosphine floated its way to among our top lookups, following reports that the clouds surrounding Venus contained just this.
SOMETHING DEADLY MIGHT be wafting through the clouds shrouding Venus—a smelly, flammable gas called phosphine that annihilates life-forms reliant on oxygen for survival. Ironically, though, the scientists who today announced sightings of this noxious gas in the Venusian atmosphere say it could be tantalizing—if controversial—evidence of life on the planet next door.
— Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 14 Sept. 2020
What does phosphine mean?
We define phosphine as “any of various derivatives of phosphine analogous to amines but weaker as bases” and “a colorless poisonous flammable gas PH3 that is a weaker base than ammonia and that is used especially to fumigate stored grain.”
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Why are people looking up phosphine?
Phosphine floated its way to among our top lookups, following reports that the clouds surrounding Venus contained just this.
SOMETHING DEADLY MIGHT be wafting through the clouds shrouding Venus—a smelly, flammable gas called phosphine that annihilates life-forms reliant on oxygen for survival. Ironically, though, the scientists who today announced sightings of this noxious gas in the Venusian atmosphere say it could be tantalizing—if controversial—evidence of life on the planet next door.
— Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 14 Sept. 2020
What does phosphine mean?
We define phosphine as “any of various derivatives of phosphine analogous to amines but weaker as bases” and “a colorless poisonous flammable gas PH3 that is a weaker base than ammonia and that is used especially to fumigate stored grain.”
English_Language
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‼️⁉️Did You Know?‼️
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Some words in the English language have more colorful histories than others, but in the case of bunkum, you could almost say it was an act of Congress that brought the word into being. Back in 1820 Felix Walker, who represented Buncombe County, North Carolina, in the U.S. House of Representatives, was determined that his voice be heard on his constituents' behalf, even though the matter up for debate was irrelevant to Walker's district and he had little to contribute. To the exasperation of his colleagues, Walker insisted on delivering a long and wearisome "speech for Buncombe." His persistent—if insignificant—harangue made buncombe (later respelled bunkum) a synonym for meaningless political claptrap and later for any kind of nonsense.
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🔅🔆
Some words in the English language have more colorful histories than others, but in the case of bunkum, you could almost say it was an act of Congress that brought the word into being. Back in 1820 Felix Walker, who represented Buncombe County, North Carolina, in the U.S. House of Representatives, was determined that his voice be heard on his constituents' behalf, even though the matter up for debate was irrelevant to Walker's district and he had little to contribute. To the exasperation of his colleagues, Walker insisted on delivering a long and wearisome "speech for Buncombe." His persistent—if insignificant—harangue made buncombe (later respelled bunkum) a synonym for meaningless political claptrap and later for any kind of nonsense.
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✒️✒️✒️There’s a saying🦋✨:
...🦋🍂✨
It’s good to be a DREAMER
But it’s better to be a PLANNER AND A WORKER!..🍂🌸✨
A dreamer will always dream!
RESULTS don’t come from dreams!
PLANNERS AND WORKERS take RISKS to make their own DREAM a REALITY
I AM A RISK TAKER and I KNOW that the only real FAILURE in life could be NOT LIVING MY DREAM!
I WILL NOT LEAVE MY DREAM A DREAM!
NO WAY ON THIS EARTH!
YOU HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE YOU
SOMETHING THAT IS DIFFERENT
DIFFERENT THAN THE REST!
BRING IT OUT!
GO AFTER YOUR DREAMS!
So dream dream dream
and perspire for the fulfilment.
always and all the ways strive for the excellence and persevere in discovering the new version of yourself.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Kick Start your day with positive affirmations.📚📚📚
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...🦋🍂✨
It’s good to be a DREAMER
But it’s better to be a PLANNER AND A WORKER!..🍂🌸✨
A dreamer will always dream!
RESULTS don’t come from dreams!
PLANNERS AND WORKERS take RISKS to make their own DREAM a REALITY
I AM A RISK TAKER and I KNOW that the only real FAILURE in life could be NOT LIVING MY DREAM!
I WILL NOT LEAVE MY DREAM A DREAM!
NO WAY ON THIS EARTH!
YOU HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE YOU
SOMETHING THAT IS DIFFERENT
DIFFERENT THAN THE REST!
BRING IT OUT!
GO AFTER YOUR DREAMS!
So dream dream dream
and perspire for the fulfilment.
always and all the ways strive for the excellence and persevere in discovering the new version of yourself.
Stay safe and stay healthy
Kick Start your day with positive affirmations.📚📚📚
English_Language
☸@Google_English_Worl
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Pitons, St Lucia🦋🍂🌸
These two volcanic mountains are one of the most recognizable—not to mention beautiful—features on this Caribbean island. Enjoy the Pitons from the pristine white sand beach at Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort.
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Pitons, St Lucia🦋🍂🌸
These two volcanic mountains are one of the most recognizable—not to mention beautiful—features on this Caribbean island. Enjoy the Pitons from the pristine white sand beach at Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort.
☪@Beautiful_Haven