🌟 10 Interesting Facts About the English Language that You Didn’t Know 🌟

🔷 A Pangram is a Sentence that Contains Every Letter in the Alphabet
 
For example, “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” contains every single letter in the English language.

🔶 Shakespeare Added Over a Thousand New Words to the English Language

It’s true! The famous writer LOVED making up words. While no one knows for certain exactly how many he invented, we do know it was a lot. Many of these are very common words today, like bubble, gloomy, lonely and fashionable.

🔷 The Most Common Letter Used in English is “E”

In fact, on average, one in every eight letters you see written down will be an “e”.

🔶Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the Longest Word in the English Dictionary

Go on, try to say it! Luckily, this isn’t a word you are likely to need any time soon – or, at least, we hope not. It’s the proper name for a lung disease that you get by inhaling too much ash and coal dust. It’s a very nasty illness that used to affect lots of coal miners in the past.

🔷 If You Turn the Word “SWIMS” upside down, it still says SWIMS!

Believe it or not, there’s even a word for words like these. They’re called “ambigrams”.

🔶 There is Only One Word in English With 5 Vowels in a Row

Did you guess what it was? The answer is “queuing”!

🔷 Some Words Don’t Rhyme With Anything

You probably already know that the world “orange” doesn’t rhyme with any other words in the English language, but it’s not the only one. There are no words that rhyme with any of these words, either: silver, purple, month, ninth, pint, wolf, opus, dangerous, marathon, discombobulate.

🔶 The Words “Girl” and “Man” Didn’t Used to Have a Gender

In modern English, the word “girl” is always used to mean a female child (or young woman), and the word “man” always means a male adult. It wasn’t always that way, though. Until the 1300s, “girl” just meant a young child – that could mean a girl or a boy. The word “man” just meant a person.

🔷 English is the language of the air.

This means that all pilots have to identify themselves and speak in English while flying, regardless of their origin.

🔶 The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”

Medieval manuscripts reveal that some of the oldest words in English are “I,” “we,” “two,” and “three.” This makes “I” one of the shortest and oldest words in the English language. It is also the most commonly used word in English conversations.

Idiom of the Day

📚carte blanche
FORMAL

✍🏾Meaning:
If you give someone carte blanche, you give them freedom to do whatever they want in a situation.

❕For example:

🔺The boss has given us carte blanche to redecorate the offices.

🔺The president gave his generals carte blanche to fight the war however they wished.

©Origin: Originally borrowed from French. A literal translation would be "white (or blank) paper".
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Different Ways Of Walking


1)Stroll👉 Walking in a Relaxed way For Pleasure.

2)Wander👉 Walking without any Direction or Aim.

3)Stride👉 Walking Quickly with Long Steps.

4)March👉 Special Walking for Military Forces such as Soldiers.

5)Hike👉 Walking for Long Distances in the Countryside or the Mountains.

6)Tiptoe👉 Walking on your Toes Quietly.

7)Wade👉 Walking through Water.

8)Stagger👉 Walking in an Unsteady way because you are Drunk or Injured.

9)Limp👉 Walking with Difficulty because one Leg is Painful or Injured.


#Vocabulary

[ Out of the frying pan into the fire ]

✅meaning:
❗️To go from a bad situation into an even a worse on❗️

✅Example:
I got deeply in debt. Then I really got out of the frying pan into the fire when I lost my job.❗️


#Idioms

On


1.Used to express a surface
of something:

I put an egg on the kitchen table.

The paper is on my desk.


2.Used to specify days and dates:

The garbage truck comes on Wednesdays.

I was born on the 14th day of
June in 1988.


3.Used to indicate a device or
machine, such as a phone or
computer:

He is on the phone right now.

She has been on the computer
since
this morning.

My favorite movie will be
on TV tonight.


4.Used to indicate a part of the body:

The stick hit me on my shoulder.

I wear a ring on my finger.


5.Used to indicate the state of
something:

Everything in this store is on sale.

The building is on fire.


#Prepositions

At


1.Used to point out specific time:

I will meet you at 12 p.m.

The bus will stop here at 5:45 p.m.


2.Used to indicate a place:

There is a party at the club house.

There were hundreds of people
at the park.

We saw a baseball game at the
stadium.

3.Used to indicate an email address:

Please email me at abc@defg.com.


4.Used to indicate an activity:

He laughed at my acting.

I am good at drawing a portrait.

#Prepositions

In


1.Used for unspecific times
during
a day, month, season, year:

She always reads newspapers in
the morning.

In the summer, we have a rainy
season for three weeks.

The new semester will start in March.


2.Used to indicate a location or place:

She looked me directly in the eyes.

I am currently staying in a hotel.

My hometown is Los Angeles,
which is in California.


3.Used to indicate a shape, color,
or size:

This painting is mostly in blue.

The students stood in a circle.

This jacket comes in four
different sizes.

4.Used to express while doing
something:

In preparing for the final report,
we revised the tone three times.

A catch phrase needs to be
impressive in marketing a product.


5.Used to indicate a belief,
opinion, interest, or feeling:

I believe in the next life.

We are not interested in
gambling.

#Prepositions

Of


1.Used for belonging to,
relating to, or connected with:

The secret of this game is that
you can’t ever win.

The highlight of the show is
at the end.

The first page of the book
describes the author’s profile.

Don’t touch it. That’s the
bag of my friend’s sister.

I always dreamed of being rich
and famous.

2.Used to indicate reference:

I got married in the summer of 2000.

This is a picture of my family.

I got a discount of 10 percent on
the purchase.

3.Used to indicate an amount or
number:

I drank three cups of milk.

A large number of people gathered
to protest.

I had only four hours of sleep
during the last two days.

He got a perfect score of 5 on
his writing assignment.

#Prepositions

To


1.Used to indicate the place, person,
or thing that someone or something moves toward, or the direction of something:

I am heading to the entrance of the building.

The package was mailed to Mr. Kim yesterday.

All of us went to the movie theater.

Please send it back to me.


2.Used to indicate a limit or an
ending point:

The snow was piled up to the roof.

The stock prices rose up to 100 dollars.


3.Used to indicate relationship:

This letter is very important to your admission.

My answer to your question is
in this envelop.

Do not respond to every little
thing in your life.

4.Used to indicate a time or a period:

I work nine to six,
Monday to Friday.

It is now 10 to five.
(In other words, it is 4:50.)

#Prepositions

For


1.Used to indicate the use of
something:

This place is for exhibitions and
shows

I baked a cake for your birthday.

I put a note on the door for privacy.

She has been studying hard for
the final exam.

2.Used to mean because of:

I am so happy for you.

We feel deeply sorry for your loss.

For this reason, I’ve decided to
quit this job.

3.Used to indicate time or duration:

He’s been famous for many decades.

I attended the university for one
year only.

This is all I have for today.

#Prepositions

⚠️ 10 Grammar Mistakes You Should Avoid ⚠️ ( PART 1 )


Mistake 1️⃣ : Using whom as a subject

❌ INCORRECT:
Fire personnel radioed deputies to stop the driver, whom, according to reports, appeared to have been under the influence of intoxicants.

✅ CORRECT :
Fire personnel radioed deputies to stop the driver, who, according to reports, appeared to have been under the influence of intoxicants.

In this sentence, the pronoun is the subject of the verb appeared and therefore requires the subject form who. The object form of who is whom, which functions as the object of a verb or as the object of a preposition:

⭕️ “ That is the man whom I saw at the widow “ .( object of the verb saw )

⭕️ “ Did he say to whom he sent the letter? “ ( object of the preposition to )

The misuse of whom as a subject frequently occurs when a phrase intervenes between the pronoun and its subject.

Be especially careful with such expressions as “according to so-and-so,” “in my opinion,” “one suspects,” etc.

Less frequently, but more embarrassingly, whom is sometimes substituted for who when little or nothing stands between it and its verb, as in this sentence taken from a news account: “An off-duty fireman whom lives in the area provided immediate assistance.”

Mistake 2️⃣ : Unnecessary would in a wish about the past

❌ INCORRECT:
Ten Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Was Twenty

✅ CORRECT :
Ten Things I Wish I Had Known When I Was Twenty

The opportunity for knowing the ten things existed in the past, but exists no longer. The tense required, therefore, is the past perfect (had + past participle).

#Grammar