✨ahead (of) 🆚 in front (of)

🔹In most cars,the engine's in front. (Not ahead)✘

🔹Right up to the end of the race. College Boy was just ahead of/in front of Red Fur.

🔹College Boy was ahead/in front.

🔻in front (of)/behind/at the back 👉🏻 for absolute position

🔻ahead (of)/behind 👉🏻 for position relative to others


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✨Expect 🆚 hope


🔸She is hoping a raise.✘
🔸She is expecting a raise.✅


◽️When we EXPECT something we think that it will in fact happen.

◽️When we HOPE for something to happen, we would like it to happen, but we don't know whether it will.

🔻She is expecting a baby. (= She is pregnant now.)

🔻She is hoping that it will be a girl. (She doesn’t know whether it will be a boy or a girl, but she will be happier if it is a girl.)

✨We can EXPECT good or bad things to happen, but we only HOPE for good things.


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✨Thank you everybody!


✅The correct answer is:

C. Both are correct

But they have slightly different meanings.👌🏻

◽️If you appreciate that someone contacted the office (the act of contacting), use YOUR. It's roughly equivalent to: “We appreciate that you contacted the office.”

◾️If you appreciate the person who contacted the office, use YOU.

✨Typically, you want the possessive pronoun:

We appreciate YOUR contacting the office.

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✨English language is a fearsomely difficult one!


There are examples of conundrums like:

🔸Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads which are not sweet, are not meat!

🔹We 'ship' by truck, but 'send cargo' by ship!

🔸'Trim' is : to decorate or to remove excess from !

🔹A 'slim chance' and a 'fat chance' are the same meaning !

🔸A 'wise man' is the opposite of a 'wise guy'!

🔹An alarm goes 'off' when it is 'on'!

🔸'Overlook' and 'oversee' have opposite meanings , while 'look' and 'see' mean the same!

🔹'Quicksand' works slowly!

🔸'Boxing rings' are square!

🔹When the stars are 'out', they are visible, but when the lights are 'out', they are invisible!


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🔹Get the hang of something #informal

= to learn how to do something or use something:


🔻It seems difficult at first, but you’ll soon get the hang of it.


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✨Massive

When you use massive about objects and buildings, it has the feeling of being very solid or heavy:

🔹The castle is surrounded by a massive stone wall.

🔹a massive wooden table


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✨A necessary evil
✨شر لابد منه


= Something that you do not like but that cannot be avoided

🔸These days, student loans are a necessary evil in order to get an education that leads to a well-paying job.


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⚪️SORRY


✨Sorry for/about + -ing =
الاعتذار عن سلوك أو أمر ما حدث في الماضي

✨Sorry + to-infinitive =
استباق الاعتذار قبل أو فور حدوث الأمر

طبعًا هناك صيغ أخرى في الاعتذار، ولكن دعونا نركز بطرح أمثلة عن الصيغتين أعلاه.

🔻I'm sorry for taking the car without asking.
هنا أعتذر عن عدم الاستئذان في استخدام سيارتك.

استخدام السيارة تم وانتهى، فلاحظ قلنا: for taking.

🔻I'm sorry about losing my temper this morning.
أعتذر عن فقد أعصابي (غضبي أو نرفزتي) هذا الصباح.

أي أعتذر عن نرفزتي التي حدثت في الماضي (صباح هذا اليوم ونحن الآن مثلا في منتصف اليوم).

🔻Sorry to disturb you - could I speak to you for a moment.

لاحظ استبقنا الاعتذار قبل طلب الحديث مع الشخص.

🔻Sorry to keep you waiting - how can I help?

اعتذرنا عن حدث انتظارك الذي تسببنا به للتو، ومن ثم استأنفنا الحديث معك.


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A piece of advice from native speakers of English on the usage of thanks a lot.

5) thanks a lot also thanks a bunch (AmE) spoken used when really you are annoyed about something and you do not mean ‘thank you’ at all
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Fifth Edition (LDOCE5) © Pearson Education Limited 2009

thanks
/θæŋks/ exclamation
informal thank you
"Shall I do that for you?" "No, thanks."
thanks for nothing ( also thanks a bunch , also thanks a lot)
used to show you are annoyed when someone has done something you are unhappy about or has failed to help you in some way
"I told Dad you'd love to wash his car." "Thanks a lot."
Thanks a lot for supporting me (= You did not support me).
thanks
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

🎯Spotlight🎯


📚When the focus of only is a time or a space adjunct, two interpretations are possible:

🔸'at [www.tg-me.com/place] and nowhere else' or
🔸with the modality sense present in diminisher downtoners:

🔻John only phoned Mary <an hour ago>.
👉🏻 [either 'at no other time' or 'as recently as an hour ago']

🔻John only lives <in Islington>.
👉🏻 [either 'nowhere else' or 'as close as Islington' or 'in as humble a place as Islington']


✍🏻 By Prof. Omar Alamri

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🔴 accommodation

#noun


🇬🇧In British English accommodation (= a place to stay or live in) is always uncountable:

✨'For the first year we stayed in rented accommodation.'

🇺🇸In American English both accommodation and accommodations (plural) are used.


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🔹Essential American Idioms🔹

⭐️#ACQUISITION

✨Come by something ▶️ to find or get something

🔻How did you come by that haircut?
🔻Where did you come by that new shirt?

✨Come by something honestly ▶️ to inherit something—a character trait—from one's parents.

🔻I know I'm mean. I came by it honestly, though.
🔻She came by her kindness honestly.

✨Come in for something AND fall in for something ▶️ to receive something; to acquire something.

🔻Mary came in for a tremendous amount of money when her aunt died.
🔻Sally fell in for a lot of trouble when she bought a used car.

✨Come into something ▶️ to inherit something.

🔻Jane came into a small fortune when her aunt died.
🔻Mary came into a house and a new car when her rich uncle died.

✨Come someone's way ▶️ to come to someone.

🔻I wish a large sum of money would come my way.
🔻I hope that no had luck comes my way.

✨Get (a) hold of something ▶️ to obtain something

🔻I’m trying to get hold of a glass jar. I need it for school.
🔻Does anyone know where I can get a hold of a spare tire?
🔻I have hold of a very large piece of land.

✨Get one's hands on someone or something AND lay one's hands on someone or something ▶️ to get (a)hold of someone or something; to get someone or something in one's grasp. (#Informal. Sometimes said in anger, as if one may wish to do harm.)

🔻Just wait until I get my hands on Tom. I'll really give him something to think about.
🔻When I lay my hands on my book again, I'll never lend it to anyone.

✨Get one's hooks into someone or something ▶️ to grasp someone or something; to acquire someone or something; to get someone or something in one's grasp. (Said of someone who is grasping and acquisitive and who will not let go easily. Usually said about a person or about something that is small enough to grasp in one's hand.)

🔻I want to get my hooks into a copy of that book.
🔻She cant wait until she gets her hooks into George.

✨Pick something up ▶️ to find, purchase, or acquire something.

🔻Where did you pick that up?
🔻I picked up this tool at the hardware store.


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✨ A kangaroo word 🦘


is a word that contains all the letters of one of its synonyms, called a joey word, arranged so that these letters appear in the same order in bothwords.

✨Examples:

🔻Chicken 👉🏻 Hen
🔻Market 👉🏻 Mart
🔻Because 👉🏻 Cause
🔻Gigantic 👉🏻 Giant
🔻Masculine 👉🏻 Male

✨In contrast, an anti-kangaroo word is aword that contains its antonym.

➖for example:

🔻Covert 👉🏻 Overt
🔻Animosity 👉🏻 Amity.

✨A grand kangaroo is a kangaroo word which has two joeys, one of which is in the pouch of the other.

➖For instance,

🔻Alone 👉🏻 Lone 👉🏻 One .


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✨#Haggle

✨تَسَاوَم ؛ تَمَاحَك ؛ خاصَم ؛ ساوَم ؛ كان مُمَاحِكا ؛ مَحَك
✨بالعامية " يفاصِل ؛ يكاسِر "

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