✳ participant (noun)

Sounds:
- /pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt/ (UK)
- /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/ (US)
- /pəɹˈtɪsəpənt/ (US)

Forms:
- participants (plural)

participant (noun) senses:
1. One who participates.

✳ participant (adj)

participant (adj) senses:
1. Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

Audio (RP)

🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

I will be volunteering at a local soup kitchen to help the homeless.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Would you like to go to a concert tonight?
- I'd like to very much.
- All right, then.There is one at the new concert hall.
- Who's playing?
- It's the Powell orchestra.
- Do you know what they are playing?
- They're doing a seventeenth-century program.
- And who is directing?
- Well, I'm not sure of his name, but I know it's going to be his farewell performance.

💡 Example 💡 in

in (adj): I saw this thing on ITV the other week, Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen She's playing with her hair, well regularly, So I reckon I could well be in.

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🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

They will be renovating an old building to transform it into a state-of-the-art research facility to advance scientific knowledge and innovation, paving the way for new discoveries.

✳ ingredient (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

Forms:
- ingredients (plural)

ingredient (noun) senses:
1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

Audio (UK)

🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

They had watched a documentary on wildlife before going to sleep.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- maybe because they didn't have to brush and floss.
- who invented flossing?

💡 Example 💡 sloppery

sloppery (noun): We must not allow ourselves to get into that kind of mood again, mutual self-pitying is no more admirable than self-pitying as a sole indulgence of that disgusting form of sentimental sloppery.

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✳ following (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/ (General-American)

following (adj) senses:
1. Coming next, either in sequence or in time.
2. About to be specified.
3. (of a wind) Blowing in the direction of travel.

✳ following (prep)

following (prep) senses:
1. After, subsequent to.

✳ following (noun)

Forms:
- followings (plural)

following (noun) senses:
1. A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
2. Vocation; business; profession.
3. (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.