⚡️If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em


= used when you decide to take part in something even though you disapprove of it, because everyone else is doing it and you cannot stop them


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)1️⃣


When a sound at the end of a word takes on the quality of the sound at the beginning of the next word.

✨Good girl. She's a good girl. (goog girl)
✨Good boy. He's a good boy. (goob boy)
✨White paper. I only use white paper. (whipe paper)
✨Speed boat. I've never been in speed boat. (speeb boat)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)1️⃣

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✨To be in the limelight
🔻محط الأنظار
🔻مركز الاهتمام

lime‧light /ˈlaɪmlaɪt/ BrE AmE #noun [singular, uncountable]

= a situation in which someone receives a lot of attention, especially from newspapers, television etc.

🔹All celebrities don’t like their children to be in the limelight.

🔸Antonym: out of the limelight


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🔻I'm glad ....... there for Sally. She really needed someone and I was the only person supporting her.

1️⃣ to be

2️⃣ to have been

3️⃣ being

4️⃣ having been

✨Thank you all!🌹

➖Correct answer:
2️⃣ to have been

We need to use the perfect infinitive to make clear that the action expressed by the infinitive was previous to the action described by the main verb.

🔸Compare:

🔹I'm glad to be there. (=now)
🔹I'm glad to have been there. (=in the past)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)2️⃣


Because of the place in the mouth where certain sounds are made, sometimes the sound at the end of the first word changes to a completely different sound.

✨Can go. We can go now. (cang go)
✨Can buy. We can buy it. (cam buy)
✨Green Park. I walked through Green Park. (greem park)
✨On Monday. He arrives on Monday. (om Monday)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)2️⃣

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🔳 Wipe the slate clean

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✨Pronouns with unclear antecedents

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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)3️⃣


Sometimes more than one feature of connected speech happens at the same time. Here, we’ll hear about ellision, when the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation. This means that the last sound of the word will be different and can be changed by the following word.

✨Hand bag. She couldn't find her handbag. (hambag)
✨Saint Paul's. I'm going to visit Saint Paul's Cathedral today. (Sem Paul's)


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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)3️⃣

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🍿Snackable


= Snackable describes short online articles, videos and other content that are quick and easy to read or watch.


🔻Because my free time is short, it's good to find some snackable videos I can watch on my smartphone while I wait for the bus.

🔻The short city guides I found on the internet are very snackable and great for planning my trip around Africa.

🔻These days videos are often less than a minute long so that they're snackable and appeal to a younger audience.


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🔴 Ought to or should?


Ought to and should are similar in meaning. Should is more common than ought to. Ought to is more formal than should:

🔹There ought to be more street lights here.
(means the same as There should be more street lights here.)

🔹I really ought to walk my dog more. He’s so fat.
(means the same as I really should walk my dog more. He’s so fat.)

✨#Spoken_English:

In speaking, we normally use should as a tag for clauses with ought to:

🔸There ought to be a speed limit here, shouldn’t there?
(preferred to There ought to be a speed limit here, oughtn’t there?)

🔸We ought not to have to pay for basic medicines, should we?
(preferred to We ought not to have to pay for basic medicines, ought we?)


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