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⭕️Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’

💥Sleep like a log
✅Sleep very deeply, sleep very well

💥Sell like hotcakes
✅Sell very well, very quickly

💥Like a fish out of water
✅Completely out of place, not belonging at all

💥Feel like a million
✅Feel very happy

💥Like a bump on a log
✅Do not react in a useful of helpful way to the activities around them

💥Read someone like a book
✅Know exactly someone’s thinking or feelings without having to ask

💥Watch someone like a Hawk
✅Watch someone very carefully, especially because you expect them to do something wrong

💥Fit like a glove
✅It fits exactly

💥Eat like a bird
✅Eat only small amount of food

💥Know someone or something like the back of one’s hand
✅Know very well, in every detail


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🔉 Wish 🔉

'I wish to' can mean the same as 'I want to' but it is much, much more formal and less common.

✴️ Example

➕ I wish to see the manager.
➖ I wish to make a complaint.

You can also use 'wish' with a noun to 'offer good wishes'.

➕ I wish you a merry Christmas.

Hence that when you want to offer good wishes using a verb, you must use 'hope ' and not 'wish'.

➕I wish you the best of luck.
✔️ noun

➖I hope you have the best of luck.
✔️verb

However, the main use of 'wish' is to say that we would like things to be different from what they are, that we have regrets about the present situation.

➕I wish I were with you then.
➖He wishes he could fly.

Notice that the verb tense which follows 'I wish' is 'more in the past' than the tense corresponding to its meaning.

➕I never get invited to parties. I wish I got invited more.
➖I'm too emotional. I wish I were more logical.

In the case of 'will' , where 'will' means 'show willingness' we use 'would'.

➕He won't help me. I wish he would help me.
➖You've eaten too much. I wish you would stop.

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Where 'will' means a future event, we cannot use 'wish' and must use 'hope'.

✔️I hope the bus will arrive soon.
✖️I wish the bus will arrive soon.

⚠️ I was/were ⚠️

Grammatically speaking, with 'wish' you should use 'I were' and not 'I was'; However, informally speaking you can say I wish I was.

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✅Commonly Used Idioms

💠Getting a second wind
Meaning: Having energy again after being tired

💠Giving the benefit of the doubt
Meaning: Believing someone’s story without proof even though it may seem unbelievable

💠Giving someone the cold shoulder
Meaning: ignoring someone

💠Going on a wild goose chase
Meaning: doing something that is pointless

💠Heard it on the grapevine
Meaning: Hearing rumors about someone or something

💠Hitting the nail on the head
Meaning: Performing a task with exactness

💠Killing two birds with one stone
Meaning: Accomplishing two different tasks in the same undertaking

💠Letting someone off the hook
Meaning: Not holding someone responsible for something

💠Letting the cat out of the bag
Meaning: Sharing information that was intended to be a secret

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✅Commonly Used Idioms

💠Speak of the devil
Meaning: When the person you have just been talking about arrives

💠Stealing someone’s thunder
Meaning: Taking credit for someone else’s achievements

💠Straight from the horse’s mouth
Meaning: Reading or hearing something from the source

💠The last straw
Meaning: The last difficulty or annoyance that makes the entire situation unbearable

💠The elephant in the room
Meaning: An issue, person, or problem that someone is trying to avoid

💠Throwing caution to the wind
Meaning: Being reckless or taking a risk

💠Your guess is as good as mine
Meaning: To not know something

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🥇For making a suggestion

✅Why don't we +[verb]
✍🏻Why don't we go for a walk?

✍🏻Let's +[verb]
✅Let's go for a walk.

✍🏻How about +[ing]
✅How about going for a walk?

✍🏻What if we +[verb]
✅What if we go for a walk?

✍🏻I think we +[ modal verb ]+[verb ]
✅I think we should go for a walk".

✍🏻Maybe we + [modal verb ] +verb
✅Maybe we could go for a walk. "

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⭕️ The difference between
"Dinner & Supper"

👉What does dinner mean?

‼️Dinner is a noun. It can either refer to the largest meal of the day or a gathering of people at a formal event that features a meal.

📒 Ex: My speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was universally regarded as a smashing success.

📒 Ex: I made my wife baked Alaskan salmon for dinner, but she did not like it.

👉When is dinner?
Dinner refers to the size of the meal, not the time it is eaten. In many Western cultures, the largest meal is eaten in the evening. At other times throughout history, however, dinner was eaten in the middle of the day, or during the afternoon.

👉What does supper mean?

‼️Supper usually refers to a lighter meal eaten in the evening. The term has its roots in farming traditions, when a large meal would be eaten around noon, followed by a lighter meal in the evening, often consisting of a soup.

📒Ex: Mama called the boys in from the fields for supper.

📒 Ex: Jojo would eat 50 suppers a day if his mother would let him.

📒Ex: Supper was good, but I am still hungry.

👉 When is supper?
Unlike dinner, which doesn’t necessarily refer to a time, supper is a meal eaten in the evening.


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✳️ GRAMMAR
Who _Whom

According to the rules of grammar, the word who should be used when it is the subject of a sentence, and whom should be used when it is the object or if it comes after a preposition.

✳️ A Simple Explanation of the Difference between Who and Whom

🔶The difference between who and whom is that whom is used in the objective case, and who is used as a subjective pronoun.
Compare:

       🔸 Alan was playing the guitar. >  Who was playing the guitar? He was playing the guitar.

       🔸 I saw Ivan at the party. > Whom did you see at the party? I saw him at the party.

🔻As can be seen from these examples, the rule is: if you can answer the question using he, then it’s correct to use who in the interrogative sentence. If you answer using him, then use whom.

       🔹 The policeman was talking to the man. > To whom was the policeman talking?

        🔹The man who was carrying the bags is Mary’s brother.

        🔹The girl whom I saw at the party is my friend’s sister.

        🔹The girl to whom the ugly man was talking is Jim’s daughter.

🔶In these sentences, who is the subject of the sentence, while whom is the object. Whom also is used after prepositions.
While whom can only be used as the object or after a preposition, who can play the role of both subject and object.
Whom is not used frequently in modern conversational English, although it is used and accepted in writing or a formal speech.
If a sentence is long or complicated, making it difficult to separate the preposition and noun, preposition + whomcan be used in conversational speech as well.

        🔻We had already known the man who became the head of the office.
        🔻The clients who need more information can write an email to customer support service.

        🔺Who did you see at the party?
        🔺Whom did you see at the party? (not common, but acceptable)
        🔺 Who was the ugly man talking to?
        🔺To whom was the ugly man talking?
        🔺Who can we call in case of emergency?
        🔺Whom can we call in case of emergency?

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♻️ Irregular verbs.

English has quite a few surprises. We can't list all the irregular verbs, but be aware that they exist:


For example, "broadcast" is the same in the present tense and the past tense.

❌ "Broadcasted" is not
standard English.

"Yesterday, CNN broadcast a show."
The same goes for "forecast":

"Last night they forecast rain."

"Sneak" and "hang" fall into the category of irregular verbs, but the list is extensive, and you'll have to look into them individually.


♻️ "Nor" and "or."

Use "nor" before the second alternative when "neither" introduces the first. Think of it as "or" for negative sentences — and, no, it's not optional.


Neither Jenny nor I understand the new program.

You can also use "nor" with a negative first clause or sentence including "not":

My boss didn't understand the program — nor did I.


♻️ "Then" and "than."

There's a pretty simple distinction between these two words.

Use "then" when talking about time, as in

"We had a meeting, and then we went to lunch."

Use "than" in comparisons:

"This meeting was more productive than the last one."


♻️ Fewer and Less

➡️ Use "fewer" when you're talking about countable things:

"He ate five fewer hot dogs than his rival."

"Fewer people attended the meeting this week."

➡️ Use "less" for things you normally don't count, like duration:

"It took me less than three hours to read the entire book."

"There's less water in this glass."


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⭕️ کاربرد "like " & " alike "

✴️ کلمه like در وسط جمله و بعد از افعال to be و یه سری افعال خاص مانند افعال زیر قرار میگیرد.

👉 look , sound , feel , seem

✴️ کلمه alike در انتهای جمله و به منظور مقایسه می آید.

🔰My sister is like my mother.
🔰Is Japanese food like Chinese?
🔰She sings like an angel!

🔰The children all look very alike.
🔰Your new shirt and the old one are alike.


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👉 Congratulate on / not for

❎ I congratulate you for your success.
✅I congratulate you on your success


👉 Careful of / not for

❎He is very careful for his health.
✅ He is very careful of his health.


👉 Consist of / not from

❎ A year consists from twelve months.
✅ A year consists of twelve months.


👉 Covered with / not by

❎ The mountains are covered by snow.
✅ The mountains are covered with snow.


👉 Interested in / not at

❎ I am interested at western novels.
✅ I am interested in western novels.


👉All three / not every

❎ I’ve seen every three of them.
✅ I’ve seen all three of them.


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🔴Sentence Structure


🔹There are four main sentence structures in the English language.



🔸1. Simple Sentences- one independent clause; contains a subject and a verb.

Examples of simple sentences:

Karen baked cookies for dessert.
Jeff and John are brothers.
Where are you going?


🔸2. Compound Sentences- two independent clauses joined with a conjunction; both of these clauses express a complete thought.
Compound sentences contain two independent clauses joined by a coordinator and preceded by a comma. The coordinators are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. (fan boys)

Examples of compound sentences:

John wants cereal, but Paul wants pancakes.
We went to the beach, and then we went to the mountains.
Chris was hungry, so he made a sandwich.


🔸3. Complex Sentences- one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which.

Examples of complex sentences:

When it stops raining, we will play baseball.

You should brush your teeth before you go to bed.

Because she is nice, Mrs. Thomas let us read books that we brought from home.


🔸4. Compound-Complex Sentences- a compound sentence that also contains a dependent clause.

Examples of compound-complex sentences:

After we arrived at school, I went to gym, and Sara went to English class.

I need a new coat, so mom said that she would buy one.

Will you bring chips for the party that we are having for Jane, and can you invite Mary?



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The Adjective Order In English is:

1. Determiner:
a , an , the .
2. Quantity or number.
one , two , ten , ... thousands.
3. Quality or opinion .
beautiful, amazing, boring , wonderful .
4. Size.
small, big, huge , tiny, little .
5. Age..
old , young, new ...
6. Shape.
circle, square , heart-shaped
7. Color.
8. Proper adjective...
( nationality, material)
Italian, Mexican, .
plastic, Iron , glass .. .
9. Purpose or qualifier.
sport, formal, casual, classic,


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The Adjective Order In English is:

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Example :
I love that really old big green. antique car that always parked at the end of the street.
[quality – age – size – color – proper adjective]
My sister has a big, beautiful, tan and white, bulldog.
[size – quality – color – color]
A wonderful old Italian clock.
[opinion – age – origin]
A big square blue box.
[dimension – shape – color]
A disgusting pink. plastic ornament.
[opinion – color – material]
Some slim new. French trousers.
[dimension – age – origin]
I bought a pair of black. leather shoes.
[color – material]

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💬Let someone down💬

✍️Means: To disappoint someone.

🍹Examples:

✍️ You were the only one that could help, but you let me down.

✍️Jenny always felt pressure not to let down her parents in her studies.

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🥇skate on thin ice

✍🏻Meaning: to be in a risky situation.

👉🏻I try to stay well informed so I don’t end up skating on thin ice when the teacher asks me a question.

👉🏻You are skating on thin ice when you ask me that!

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🥇put something on ice and put something on the back burner🥇

✍🏻Meaning: to delay or postpone something; to put something on hold.

For example:

👉🏻I’m afraid that we’ll have
to put your project on ice for a while.

👉🏻Just put your idea on ice and keep it there till we get some money.

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🥇Write vs. Right🥇


🔸“Write” is a verb, to express in writing.

👉🏻For Example:-

“I want to learn how to write well.”
“Did you write this? Write a letter to Mom”


🔸“Right” is an adjective, correct, justified, suitable, opposite of left.


👉🏻For Example:-
“The little boy knew right versus wrong.”
“It’s the right way to do things.”


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