🔻article ON 👉🏻 serious and specific information

🔻article ABOUT 👉🏻 general interest

🔹Have you read this article ON the Antarctic?

🔹There's an article ABOUT tourism in today's paper.


#Right_word_wrong_word
#Vocabulary
@PMPerfect1

✨English juncture phenomena


🔻Stay dill / stayed ill
🔹known ocean / no notion
🔻bee feeder / beef eater
🔹night rate / nitrate
🔻new Deal / nude eel
🔹be quiet / Beek Wyatt
🔻Cato / Kay toe
🔹freed Annie / free Danny
🔻get aboard / get a board
🔹hiatus / Hy ate us
🔻holy / wholly
🔹ho[e] maker / home-acre
🔻twenty six ones / twenty sick swans
🔹the suns rays meet / the sons raise meat
🔻tulips / two lips
🔹seize ooze / see zoos
🔻pinch air / pin chair
🔹pawn shop / paunch op
🔻four met / form ate
🔹fork reeps / four creeps
🔻your crimes / York rhymes
🔹sick squid / six quid
🔻scar face / scarf ace
🔹catch ooze / cat chews
🔻bean ice / be nice
🔹thing call / think all
🔻bang cat / bank at
🔹her butter / herb utter
🔻field red / feel dread
🔹yelp at / yell Pat
🔻damn pegs / damp eggs
🔹well done other / weld another
🔻great ape / grey tape
🔹it swings / its wings
🔻grey day / grade a
🔹an iceman / a nice man
🔻see the meat / see them eat
🔹seal eyeing / see lying
🔻see Mabel / seem able
🔹peace talks / pea stalks
🔻play taught / plate ought
🔹tour an / two ran
🔻buys ink / buy zinc
🔹that's tough / that stuff
🔻a name / an aim
🔹lawn chair / launch air
🔻it sprays / its praise
🔹keeps ticking / keep sticking
🔻grasp rice / grass price
🔹a notion / an ocean
🔻may cough / make off
🔹beer drips / beard rips
🔻ice cream / I scream
🔹grey tape / great ape
🔻plum pie / plump eye
🔹why choose / white shoes
🔻I stink / iced ink
🔹we'll own / we loan
🔻youth read / you thread


#Linguistics
@PMPerfect1

✨لا يُعد و لا يُحصى

✨Umpteen (n.) /ˌʌmpˈtiːn/

= a great number of

➖We must have phoned umpteen times but never got a reply.

✨Umpteenth (adj.)

➖‘Stop worrying,’ she told herself for the umpteenth time.

@HowTo_Say

👌🏻Get it right: #trouble


✨Trouble is mostly used as an uncountable noun, so:

▪  it is not usually found in the plural
▪  it never comes after a or a number

🔹Most people who are in prison have had troubles with the law before. ✘
🔸Most people who are in prison have had trouble with the law before. ✔️

🔹If they come face to face with a trouble, the first thing they do is cry. ✘
🔸If they come face to face with trouble, the first thing they do is cry. ✔️

✨When trouble is the object of the verbs cause and get into, it is always singular:

🔹Young criminals should get in touch with their victims, so that they can realize the troubles they have caused. ✘
🔸Young criminals should get in touch with their victims, so that they can realize the trouble they have caused. ✔️

🔹If children get into troubles, their parents must bail them out. ✘
🔸If children get into trouble, their parents must bail them out. ✔️

✨The plural form troubles is used to refer to all the problems that a person has, and it is often used with a possessive determiner:

🔻The prime minister seemed to be brooding over his troubles.

🔻We all have our troubles and we must deal with them as best we can.


#Essential_English_words
@PMPerfect1

💢#Conversation /ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃən $ ˌkɑːnvər-/ BrE AmE #noun


#Metaphor


✨A conversation or discussion is like a journey, with the speakers going from one place to another.

💬 Let’s go back to what you were saying earlier.

💬 Can we return to the previous point?

💬 I can’t quite see where you’re heading.

💬 The conversation took an unexpected turn/direction.

💬 I’m listening – Go on!

💬 We’ve covered a lot of ground.

💬 I was just coming on to that.

💬 We eventually arrived at a conclusion.

💬 It’s a roundabout way of saying she’s refusing our offer.

💬 You’re on the right/wrong track.

💬 We wandered off the topic.

💬 The conversation drifted rather aimlessly.

💬 We kept going round and round in circles.


#Phrases
@PMPerfect1

💢#Either /ˈaɪðə $ ˈiːðər/ BrE AmE #conjunction
أمّا؛ أيْ؛ أَيًّا كانَ؛ أيضا فوق ذلك؛ أيّما؛ كل من أي من أحد الأمري


✨Either can be used in the following ways:

🔻in the expression either...or:

🔹Students could choose either French or Spanish.
🔹You can either come by bus or take a taxi.

🔻as a determiner (followed by a singular countable noun):

🔹a long room with a door at either end

🔻as a pronoun:

🔹Olive oil and corn oil are both suitable, so you could use either.

(followed by ‘of’):

🔹Does either of you speak Chinese?

🔻as an adverb (in negative sentences):

🔹Jerry wasn’t there either.

✨When either is the subject of a sentence, it is usually used with a singular verb:

🔹Is either of them at home?

But in #spoken_English a plural verb is sometimes used:

🔹Are either of them at home?


#Grammar
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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.


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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.


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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.


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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!


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1

💢#Strange /streɪndʒ/ BrE AmE #adjective
غريب ; أجنبي ; غير معروف ; غير مطّلع على


#Metaphor


     ✨A person who behaves in a strange or unusual way is like someone who comes from a different place or is in a different world.

⭕️He seemed completely out of place in that company.

⭕️Everyone was growing tired of her outlandish behaviour.

⭕️The university environment was rather alien to me.

⭕️There was something otherworldly about her.

⭕️He seems to live in a world of his own.

⭕️Honestly, I sometimes wonder if you and I are on the same planet!

⭕️Hello, Earth to Trisha, have you been listening to anything I said?


#Phrases
@PMPerfect1

🔻See a movie = to go out to the movie theater and watched the movie there 🎭



🔻Watch a movie = to watch it in a home environment on DVD or TV 📺


#Vocabulary
@PMPerfect1

✨Reliability 🆚 Reliance


➖Reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy

➖Reliance is the act of relying on someone or something; trust


#Vocabulary
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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.


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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.


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1

✨ 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.


#Confusing_words‼️
@PMPerfect1