TROOP = group of soldiers, police, etc.

TROUPE = group of actors, singers, etc. 💃

I left the police 👮👮👮 TROOP to join a singing TROUPE. 🎤

#Vocabulary

🐾 - find your feet 🐾🐾 🐈🐕🐎

= to become familiar with a new place or situation:

~ It took a while, but I've finally found my feet in my job
~ New students need a little time to find their feet.

💧- clear the air 💦 💦🌦⛈🌤

💡💡💡- according to one's (own) lights 💡💡💡

#idiomatic_expressions

- I wish he WERE here. ✔️

#Grammar

🖌🖍🖋📖 🔍
- I wish she WERE here. (correct)
- I wish she WAS here. (informal)

#Grammar

▶️ salubrious (adj.) /səˈluːbriəs/
= favorable to or promoting health or well-being
A salubrious place is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in:
~ He doesn't live in a very salubrious part of town.

🖌🖌🖌 - have/take/claim/seize the moral high ground

#idiomatic_expressions

🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
- I saw a galloping horse down the hill. ❌
- I saw a horse galloping down the street. ✔️
- I saw a galloping horse speeding down the hill. ✔️

#Grammar

⚪️ - introspective (adj.) /ˌɪntrəˈspektɪv/ 🔍🗝🚪💡🔦🕯

= tending to think deeply about your own thoughts, feelings, or behaviour

#Vocabulary

💠 restrictive + non-restrictive clauses:
✳️ The box THAT lies on the table is empty. ✔️
✴️ The box WHICH lies on the table is empty. (correct in BrE) [usually perceived as incorrect in AmE]
#Grammar

✒️- hyphen ✒️ 🖌- compounds 🖌

- They need to employ more full- and part-time staff. ✔️
- They need to employ more full-time and part-time staff. ❌

#Grammar

mischievous doesn't end in -vious, so don't pronounce it that way.

▶️ - afoot (adj. + adv.) /əˈfʊt/ 🐾

🔎 “The game is afoot.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle 🔍

✳️ afoot (adj.): happening or being planned or prepared
~ Plans are afoot to build a new leisure complex.
~ Trouble was afoot.
~ There is mischief afoot.

✳️ afoot (adj.): traveling by foot
~ She was afoot when I saw her this morning.

✴️ afoot (adv.): on foot; walking
~ They went to the village afoot.

#Vocabulary

🌕 THAT 🌑

The Old Editor is getting tired of putting "that" back where it belongs.
Journalists commonly remove "that" from their copy. John McIntyre frequently puts "that" back in.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/93044514-132.html

#Grammar

⛰when to use articles with mountains ⛰🏔⛰

THE: The Alps, The Himalayas, The Rocky Mountains ⛰🏔⛰

🅾️ ZERO ARTICLE: Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Mulanje ⛰

#Grammar