Avoid making double negatives with “neither … nor”:

He DOESN’T eat NEITHER mice NOR bugs. → ❌

He eats 🤐 NEITHER mice 🐭 NOR bugs. 🐛 → ✔️

#Grammar

✳️Improve = make or become better

✳️Improvise = perform without preparation

The band *improved* its live shows by learning to *improvise*.

👩🎤😎🎸

✳️For sale = available for purchase

✳️On sale = at a discounted price

Wateen was happy when the expensive shoes went *on sale*.

👩💸👠

#Vocabulary

✳️Anecdote = a short, amusing story

✳️Antidote = a cure, remedy

Jo told 👩💬 an *anecdote* about buying an *antidote* from a monkey.

👩💵 🐒💊💉

#Vocabulary

✴️ - MAY - modal verb

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✳️ - MIGHT - modal verb

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✴️✳️ - MAY and MIGHT - modal verbs

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◀️ - go with the flow 🐠🐟🐡

#idiomatic_expressions

▶️ - go against the flow 🐬🦈🐳🐋🐊

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The differences between:
1-shout at
2-shout to
3-shout for

- shout to
vs.
- shout at

- throw to
vs.
- throw at

#Grammar

- hard to come by = difficult to find or get

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- hard to come by = difficult to find or get

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- august (adj.) /ɔˈɡʌst/ - formal
= marked by majestic dignity or grandeur; having a formal and impressive quality

~ The family claims an august lineage.
~ an august mansion

#Vocabulary

🌕 - fallow (adj.) /ˈfæləʊ/

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🖋 - WHO or WHOM
- WHO = subject
- WHOM = object

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🖌 - WHO and WHOM as relative pronouns
~ I had no difficulty finding the person WHOM I WANTED TO MEET /
/ WHO I WANTED TO MEET
/ I WANTED TO MEET.

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🖌🖍🖋 - WHO or WHOM
~ TO WHOM did you give a present?
~ WHO did you give a present TO?

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🖌🖍🖋 - WHO or WHOM
- He reminded me of a loving grandpa TO WHOM a grandchild could run for comfort.
- He reminded me of a loving grandpa WHO a grandchild could run for comfort TO.

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