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🔘According to & Across📌


🔗1. According to X means as stated by X or on the authority of X.

📝 Examples
•According to Jane, life is a learning process.
•According to the timetable, the train leaves at 9.30.
•According to scientists, there could be life on other planets.

🔗2. We do not normally give our own opinions with according to.

📝 Example
In my opinion, Jane Austen is a great writer. (NOT According to me ---)
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🔘Across

🔗1. The preposition across shows movement or position from one side to the other.

📝 Examples
The child ran across the road. (From one side of the road to the other)
There is a bridge across the river.
Can you jump across the stream?

🔗2. Across can also mean on/to the other side.

📝 Examples
The library is just across the road.
I live across the street.

3. Across and Through

🔗4. The difference between across and through is similar to the difference between on and in. Across is used for a movement in a two-dimensional space. Through is used for a movement in a three-dimensional space.

📝 Examples
We walked across the field. (We were on the field.)
He drove through the tunnel. (He was in the tunnel.)
We slowly walked through the wood. (We were in the wood.)
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♈ Vocabulary class

💥💥 affliction /əˈflɪkʃən/ noun [ C or U ] formal

Ⓜ something that makes you suffer:

✳ Malnutrition is one of the common afflictions of the poor.

✨ afflict verb [ T ]
💢 Synonyms: disorder, disease,suffering, pain

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💥💥 clamor /ˈklæm·ər/ noun [ U ]

Ⓜ a loud complaint or demand:

✳ The clamor for freedom in recent years has been strong.

✨ clamor verb [ I ]
✨ clamorous adjective
💢 Synonyms: shout, call out, din

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💥💥 valor /ˈvæl·ər/ noun [ U ]

Ⓜ great bravery:

✳ Six members of the platoon already have been recommended for medals of valor.

✨ valorous adjective
💢 synonyms: bravery, courage

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Work out daily with masters and learn words and expressions connected with sport.

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Common Mistakes in English
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Miscellaneous Example

🗂Using the object pronoun in a double genitive.
❌Don’t say : A friend of him told us the news
✅ Say : A friend of his told us the news .
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⭐️ We use the double genitive (of+ name + ‘s, his , mine etc.) when we want to emphasise the person who possesses rather than the thing which he possesses : A friend of his simply another way of saying one of his friend .

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🗂Misuse of -self forms .

❌Don’t say : Michael and myself are here .
✅ Say : Michael and I are here .
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⭐️ Use the simple personal I, you, he, etc ., if no emphasis is necessary .

💧note: Use the -self pronouns in two ways:(1)for emphasis :She herself was hurt; (2)reflexively :She hurt herself .
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🐘🐄 groups of animals🐄🐘

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Cry anytime u feel like crying!
One of the reasons that causes heart attack in Men is suppressing their feelings!🍎
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🔤 Study activity — Diction 🗣

📖 Choose the best words and phrases to improve your speaking.
📝✖️ Avoid making embarassing errors in conversations.

❗️Your task is to decide for the proper use of the highlighted word and then send your answers to check in our groups bot: @EngMW_bot, for example:

🔘 Of the two tests I took today, I thought the first one was harder

ERROR ✖️ or VALID ✔️? It is valid✔️(Harder is used when comparing two things. Hardest is used for comparing more than two things)

❗️Now decide for the next following sentences:

1️⃣ He looked for his wallet on the table and in the bed but not in the drawer.

2️⃣ She specialises in writing and editing.

3️⃣ The car suffered slightly damage when the driver hit the curb.

4️⃣ As the saying goes, grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

5️⃣ The detergent makes my clothes feel soft.

6️⃣ He is envious of not only her intelligence but also her popularity.

7️⃣ The Himalayas are the higher of the world's mountain ranges.

8️⃣ That meal looks delicious.

9️⃣ Irene's passions are reading books, knitting scarves, and solving puzzles.

🔟 Infants sleep longer than toddlers: 16 hours versus about 12 hours per day.

ERROR ✖️ or VALID ✔️?
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​​♨️Today's Idioms♨️
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✅(to) sweeten the deal :
🌸to make an offer more attractive.


✅(to) twist someone's Arm:
🌸to convince someone; to persuade someone.


✅now you are talking:
🌸you are saying the right thing.


✅(to) make a living:
🌸to earn enough money to support oneself.


✅take it or leave it :
🌸accept or reject the offer, usually a final one.
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❣the pronunciation of today's idioms❣
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Common Mistakes in English
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Miscellaneous Example

🗂Using hisself or theirselves instead of himself or themselves .

❌Don’t say : They fell down and hurt theirselves
✅ Say : They fell down and hurt themselves .
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⭐️ The reflexive pronouns , third person, are himself and themselves , and not hisself and theirselves .

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🎧Listening practice🎧

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🔘Adjectives📌

🔗1. An adjective is a word like clever, beautiful, green, hungry, brave, which is used when we describe people, things, events etc. Adjectives are used in connection with nouns and pronouns.

📝 Examples
He wore a red shirt.
We need some square tables.
Each hand has five fingers.
You are naughty.
She is a beautiful girl.
He is an honest boy.
This is a wooden chair.
She wore a gold necklace.
It was an earthen pot.
Sugar is sweet.

▪Position of adjectives

🔗2. Most adjectives can go in two main positions in a sentence:
a) before a noun (attributive position)

📝 Examples
Our new principal is an old lady.
He is a clever boy.

b) after be, seem, look and other copular verbs (predicative position)

📝 Examples
I am glad to meet you.
You don't look happy to see me.
The milk turned sour.
She felt bad.
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