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✔️ Bog-standard

📚British. Something that is "bog-standard" is completely ordinary with no frills, embellishments, or add-ons.

Its origins are somewhat unclear, but a "bog" is another word for a toilet in British slang, adding to the connotations that something "bog-standard" is unglamorous and unspecial.

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〰🌸 "How was the hostel?" "Oh, nothing exciting to report. Just your bog-standard dorm, really."

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Fill in the blank with the missing word: (your reaction is your answer)

🔠 I can’t believe that Lisa gave you the ......................shoulder. I thought you two were friends.

👍) hot
❤️) freezing
👏) cold

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👚👗 Describing Fashion and Style

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⏰ Past perfect continuous tense

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⛔️ Preposition (in/for/about) + -ing

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🔘 Also, as well and too📌

🔗 1. Also means 'besides', 'as well', 'too' and similar ideas. It normally goes in mid position with the verb. It is placed after auxiliary verbs and before other verbs.
The word also is used for adding another idea to something you have already said.

◇He got his article published. He also won an award.
◇She is a doctor. Her husband is also a doctor.
◇When they withdraw their forces, we shall also withdraw ours.
◇Janaki is a keen photographer.
She also likes to paint.
◇Some tablet computers can also be used to make phone calls.
◇Meera is hard-working. She is also quite ambitious.
◇I want to buy a pair of trousers. I also want to buy a shirt.

🔗 2. Also can also be used for showing that what you have said about somebody is true about another person.

◇Supriya is quite good at painting. Her sister is also an accomplished artist.
◇When also refers to the whole clause, it goes at the beginning.
◇I am not about to buy this house. It is small. Also, it needs a lot of repairs.

🔗 3. Also, As well and Too

■Also, as well and too have similar meanings. But they go in different positions in clauses.
As well and too usually go at the end of a clause.

◇She not only sings; she also plays the piano.
◇She not only sings; she plays the piano as well.
◇She not only sings; she plays the piano too.

●We do not normally use also in short answers and imperatives. Instead we use as well and too.
◇'I have a headache.' 'I have too.' (BUT NOT I also have.)

●In an informal style we use 'me too', instead of I am too.
◇'I am going home.' 'Me too.' (More natural than 'I am too.')

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Today's idioms are:

🔘 mend your ways ✏️

☑️ Meaning: If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.

✳️ Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.

✳️ It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.

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🎚️ set your sights on 👁

☑️ Meaning: If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.

✳️ Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.

✳️ Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.

🎯 Note: This idiom can also be expressed as "has its sights set on", "has her sights set on", "have their sights set on", and so on.
🎯 Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that a person using a gun looks through the gun's sights in order to aim, and will have his sights set on the target before shooting at it.

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🔘 a dark horse 🐴

☑️ a person about whom little is known

✳️ Mary's a bit of a dark horse. Do you think she's got any chance of being elected?

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Common Mistakes in English
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Using the wrong preposition


💬 Succeed in, not at.
❌ Don’t say: I hope he’ll succeed at his work.
✅ Say: I hope he’ll succeed in his work.
🔔 Note: A person succeeds to a property, a title, or an office ;
Queen Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in 1952. Also one person can succeed another .

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💬 Superior to, not from or than
❌ Don’t say: This is superior from ( or than) that .
✅ Say: this is superior to that .
🔔 Note: Also inferior to , junior to , subsequent to, prior to .

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💬 Sure of, not for .
❌ Don’t say: Im quite sure for her honesty.
✅ Say: Im quite sure of her honesty.
🔔 Note: Also certain of ; I am quite certain of it.

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💬 Surprised at or by, not for
❌ Don’t say: Harold was surprised for the loud bang.
✅ Say: Harold was surprised at/ by the loud bang.
🔔 Note: Also astonished at/ by.Amazed at/ by. Alarmed at/by. Puzzled at/by.Shocked at/by.

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🧐 Confusing words 🥦

Person 🆚 Persons
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People 🆚 Peoples

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😕🤕 Verb confusion🤕😕
(Know, Learn, Study and take)

💎 know is used to show that you have memorized something or that you are certain of something :
🔅I know all of the irregular verbs.

▪️know described a state, not an activity ( not I'm trying to know my irregular verbs. )

▪️we can't use it in the continuous form (not I'm knowing my irregular verbs.)

💎 Learn describes an activity.
We learn facts when we try to memorize them.
🔅I am learning irregular verbs for the test.

▪️we can also learn a skill:
🔅I'm learning to play the piano.

▪️we can't use learn by itself ( not I'm learning for the test. )


💎 Study is usually used to talk about a whole subject area rather than individual skills or facts:
🔅my daughter is studying economics at university. (not I am studying how to play the piano. )

▪️We can use study by itself:
🔅I'm studying for the test on Friday

‼️Note that we can say learn about not study about:
🔅We are learning about World War I this term.
(not we are studying about)

💎 Take can be be used in a similar way to study to refer to subject area :
🔅I am taking a course in Marketing.

▪️it's also used to refer to the individual subjects within a course :
🔅I have to take at least 3 marketing subjects to get the diploma.

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Are McDonald’s and Starbucks “ubiquitous” in your city?
What does it mean? 🤔

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💥💥 egotistic /ˌiːɡoʊˈtɪstɪk/ adjective also egotistical
Ⓜ considering yourself to be better or more important than other people

✳ He is portrayed as a handsome young man, but has a rather cocky and egotistic personality.

✨ egotism noun [ U ]
✨ egotist noun [ C ]
✨ egotistically adverb
💢 synonyms: self-centered, selfish, egocentric

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💥💥 agitate /ˈædʒəteɪt/ verb [ T ]
Ⓜ to make someone feel worried or angry

✳ Because my son is a troublemaker, he likes to agitate his younger sister by hiding her dolls.

✨ agitated adjective
✨ agitation noun [ U ]

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💥💥 ardent/ˈɑːrdənt/ adjective [ before noun ]
Ⓜ showing strong feelings; eager

✳ List was an ardent, enthusiastic mountaineer and hiker.

✅ an ardent supporter of Manchester United
🔠 an ardent feminist

✨ ardently adverb
💢 synonyms: passionate, fervent, zealous

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