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✳️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 πŸ‰ 🌱

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✴️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 πŸ‰ 🌱

- If you bite it and you die, it is poisonous. And if it bites you (you are bitten) and you die, it’s venomous.

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πŸŒ€ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 πŸ‰ 🌱

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πŸ’° - pay one's dues πŸ’°

~ She paid her dues playing in small clubs in New York before an album made her famous.

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πŸ’° - pay one's dues πŸ’°πŸ˜πŸ˜Ž
▢️ - disseminate (verb) /dΙͺˈsemΙͺneΙͺt/ - formal πŸ’‘πŸ“šπŸ“–

= to spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people:

~ One of the organization's aims is to disseminate information about the disease.
~ The purpose of a university press is to disseminate knowledge by publishing books and journals.
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▢️ - dissemination (noun) /dΙͺˌsemΙ™ΛˆneΙͺΚƒΙ™n/

~ the rapid dissemination of new technology
~ the dissemination of information

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▢️ - disseminate (verb)

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πŸ–Œ Verbs Followed by Gerunds OR Infinitives
➑️ can't bear - He [can't bear being] / [can't bear to be] alone.
➑️ can't stand - Nancy [can't stand working] / [can't stand to work] the late shift.
πŸ–Œ
- If 'LIKE' is in the NEGATIVE, a GERUND refers to an action that we DO but don't enjoy doing,
while a TO-INFINITIVE means that we DON'T DO something because we don't think it right to do.
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πŸ“šπŸ“–πŸ–Œ Soliloquy vs Monologue

- soliloquy (noun) /sΙ™ΛˆlΙͺlΙ™kwi/ (plural soliloquies)
- soliloquize (verb) /-kwaΙͺz/
- monologue (noun) /ˈmΙ’nΙ™lΙ’Ι‘/ (also US monolog) (plural monologues also US monologs)
πŸ“šπŸ“–πŸ–Œ Soliloquy vs Monologue

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🐻🐼🐨 envelop (verb) vs envelope (noun) βœ‰οΈ

- envelop (verb) /ΙͺnˈvelΙ™p/
- envelope (noun) /ˈenvΙ™lΙ™ΚŠp/

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πŸ“– - on paper / look good on paper = in theory πŸ“

~ I think your plan only works on paper.
~ This automotive design looks really good on paper.

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πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹ Commonly confused words πŸ› πŸ’‘πŸ”
πŸ’  The four main kinds of conditionals πŸ’  β˜•οΈ

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πŸ†˜πŸ› πŸ”¦πŸ’‘πŸ”
- moral (noun, adj.) /ˈmΙ’rΙ™l/
- morale (noun) /mΙ™Λˆrɑːl/

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πŸ–Œ - 'Morale' (noun) means the general attitude usually of a group of people.
πŸ–‹ - 'Moral' (noun) means the lesson learned from a story or a situation.

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▢️ - outgoing (adj.) - openly friendly and responsive : extroverted
~ His outgoing personality made him popular at school.

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😁😎
✳️ - outgoing (adj.) - directed to an intended recipient; addressed and ready for posting:
~ outgoing mail
✴️ - incoming (adj.) - newly arrived or received:
~ incoming mail

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πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹ Punctuating Dialogue
- dialogue tags, actions, and/or thoughts ➑️ go outside of the quotation marks

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βœ’οΈβœοΈπŸ“ Punctuation - quotations within quotations - double and single quotation marks

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