⚜ Grammar Lesson ⚜

🔊 Articles 🔊

🔴 What Are Articles?

Articles are words that define a noun as specific or unspecific. Consider the following examples:

💭 After the long day, the cup of tea tasted particularly good.

🔸 By using the article the, we’ve shown that it was one specific day that was long and one specific cup of tea that tasted good.

💭 After a long day, a cup of tea tastes particularly good.

🔹 By using the article a, we’ve created a general statement, implying that any cup of tea would taste good after any long day.
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English has two types of articles: definite and indefinite.

🔴 The Definite Article

🔸 The definite article is the word the. It limits the meaning of a noun to one particular thing. For example, your friend might ask, “Are you going to the party this weekend?” The definite article tells you that your friend is referring to a specific party that both of you know about.

🔔 Example 🔔

💭 Please give me the hammer.

💭 Please give me the red hammer; the blue one is too small.

💭 Please give me the nail.

💭 Please give me the hammer and the nail.
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📺 Illustrated American Idioms
🛍 Go Shopping 🎁
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🔘 Faded
🎙 Alan Walker
🎧 [ Video HD + Lyrics ]

🕐 3:33 / 8.5MB
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📹 CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS BY DOING THIS!
Simple Technique to Attract Success & Happiness!

🚀Kindly share with your friends🚀
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📹 Advanced speaking practice

How To Talk About MONEY💰
English Conversation & Vocabulary

🔺 Lesson by Emma
🍀 Accent: Australian
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Level: Intermediate_Advanced
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🔘 Passenger
🎙 Let Her Go
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📹 IELTS Speaking
🔺 Sample Answer
⏰ Describe a time .....💬
💭 A time you helped someone
💡 Analysis
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💢 Throw A Tantrum

🎨 Meaning:-
🍃 To have a sudden explosion of angry, childish behavior. This phrase is often used with kids, but can be applied to adults when you want to emphasize that the behavior is immature.

🎨 Usage:-
🍃 My 6-year-old threw a tantrum when I said he couldn’t have dessert until he’d finished his broccoli.
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🍀 All Ears

🌀 Meaning:-
〽️ Listening intently; eager to hear something.

🌀 Usage:-
〽️ So, you have some new gossip about Mary. I'm all ears.
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Level: Elementary~Intermediate
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📹 Advanced writing practice

TIME TO 🔧 SOME WRITING TASK ERRORS!

🔺Most of the lapses described in this video can be corrected immediately after watching it.
However, mistakes number 3 and 6 will require you to be patient!
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Level: Intermediate_Advanced
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💢 All Fired Up
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Level: Elementary~Intermediate
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💢 All Fired Up

🎨 Meaning:
🍃 Excited; highly enthusiastic

🎨 Usage:
🍃I'm really fired up about the party next week.
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. ⚜ Grammar Lesson ⚜

🔊 Articles 🔊

🔴 The Indefinite Article

🔸 Uncountable nouns are nouns that are either difficult or impossible to count. Uncountable nouns include intangible things (e.g., information, air), liquids (e.g., milk, wine), and things that are too large or numerous to count (e.g., equipment, sand, wood). Because these things can’t be counted.

🔸 The indefinite article is only for singular nouns. Uncountable nouns can be modified by words like some, however.

🔔 Example 🔔

❌ Please give me a water.

🔺Water is an uncountable noun and should not be used with the indefinite article.

✅ Please give me some water.
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🔸 However, if you describe the water in terms of countable units (like bottles), you can use the indefinite article.

🔔 Example 🔔

✅ Please give me a bottle of water.

❌ Please give me an ice.

✅ Please give me some ice.

🔺Note that depending on the context, some nouns can be countable or uncountable (e.g., hair, noise, time):

💭 We need a light in this room.

💭 We need some light in this room.
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✅ How to ask questions correctly in English
❇️ Embedded Questions
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⚜ Grammar Lesson ⚜

🔊 “present simple” tense 🔊

🔺 We use the present simple to talk about things in general and we use it to say that something happens all the time or repeatedly or that something is true in general.

🔔 Example 🔔
💭 I usually go to work by car.
💭 The café opens at 8 in the morning.

📔 Rules
🔺 We use “do ,does “ to make questions and negative sentences.

🔔 Example 🔔
💭 She doesn’t grow in Florida.
💭 Do you come from the US? Yes,i do.
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The following table shows the spelling rules for verbs in the “present simple” tense. 👇👇

⚜ Grammar Lesson ⚜

🔊 “Present simple” tense 🔊
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Put Someone's Nose Out Of Joint
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Put Someone's Nose Out Of Joint

🌀 Meaning:
〽️ If you put someone's nose out of joint, you upset them by not treating them with as much respect or consideration as they think they deserve.

🌀 Usage:
〽️ Brad had his nose put out of joint when he saw that he didn't get top billing on the movie poster. George's name was written above Brad's name.
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🤶🏻🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻
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🤶🏻🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻
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