🆚 - although - in spite of & despite 🆚

- I couldn't sleep ALTHOUGH I was tired. ✔️
- I couldn't sleep DESPITE I was tired. ❌
- I couldn't sleep DESPITE being tired. ✔️

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💥 - even so 💥💡💡💡

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🆚 - 'even so' vs 'even though' 🆚

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✳️ - come up / turn up trumps

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1️⃣ (play) a trump card - play/use one's trump card
2️⃣ one's best/strongest/trump card = one's main advantage over other people

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🎺 - trump up sg / trump sg up - phrasal verb 🎺

- trumped-up (adj.)
~ Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges.

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✴️ - ploy (noun)
✳️ - shenanigan(s) (noun)

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🖌🖍🖋 - present forms for the future

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- It is COMMON FOR somebody to do something ✔️
- It is COMMON THAT somebody to do something ❌

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- It is COMMON FOR somebody to do something ✔️
- It is COMMON THAT somebody to do something ❌

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💡 - only 💡

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🖌 📖📘 - writer's block

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😎🖌 📖📘 - writer's block 😎

Breath = (n.) air going in/out of lungs

Breathe = (v.) inhale + exhale

Breadth = (n.) width; range

Bread = 🍞

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▶️ - to pay / give lip service to something 👄

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✳️ - be to do something - phrase - formal

✴️ - past progressive / past continuous

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With “may,” use the base form (bare infinitive) of the verb:

He may eats. → ❌

He may *eat*. → ✔️

She may left. → ❌

She may *leave*. → ✔️

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“Versus” (v., vs.) is a preposition. It’s not a verb! 🙅🏻🤦🏻‍♂️

Naruto is “versing” Goku! → ❌

It’s Naruto *vs.* Goku! → ✔️

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Yeah = yes (casual): *Yeah*, the answer is C.

Yea [yay] = yes vote: I vote *yea*. ✅

Yay! = happy expression: *Yay*! Food! 🍜🍲🙌

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🍎“Bad apple” = a bad person who makes other people bad.

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