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🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

The doctors will be performing a complicated surgery tomorrow.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Honey, the house is such a mess! I need you to help me tidy up a bit. My boss and her husband are coming over for dinner and the house needs to be spotless!
- I ' m in the middle of something right now. I ' ll be there in a second.
- This can ' t wait! I need your help now!
- Alright, alright. I ' m coming.
- Ok, here ' s a list of chores we need to get done. I'll do the dishes and get all the groceries for tonight. You can sweep and mop the floors. Oh, and the furniture needs to be dusted.
- You know what, I have to pick something up at the mall, so why don ' t you clean the floors and I'll go to the supermarket and get all the groceries.
- Sure that ' s fine. Here is the list of all the things you need to get. Don't forget anything! And can you pick up a bottle of wine on your way home?
- Hey, honey I ' m back. Wow, the house looks really good!
- Great! Can you set the table?
- Just a sec I ' m just gonna vacuum this rug real fast
- Wait! Don ' t turn it on ...

💡 Example 💡 single entendre

single entendre (noun): In truth Mae West didn't utter many double entendres; her specialty was the single entendre, the blunt come-on and right-between-the-eyes proposition.

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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

We celebrated our friend's birthday with a surprise party.

✳ counter (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈkaʊ.ɾ̃ɚ/ (General-American)
- [ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ] (General-American)
- [ˈkʰaʊ̯.nɚ] (General-American)
- /ˈkaʊn.tə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Forms:
- counters (plural)

counter (noun) senses:
1. One who counts.
2. A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
3. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
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✳ counter (adv)

counter (adv) senses:
1. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
2. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

✳ counter (verb)

Forms:
- counters (present, singular, third-person)
- countering (participle, present)
- countered (participle, past)
- countered (past)

counter (verb) senses:
1. To contradict, oppose.
2. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
3. To take action in response to; to respond.
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✳ counter (adj)

counter (adj) senses:
1. Contrary or opposing

Audio (UK)

🗣 Conversation 🗣

Addison worked hard and at the end of each month, gave the landlord their money for rent.
- (Addison) I just got back from mailing my rent check.
- It's not even the first yet.
- I know. I like to mail it at the end of the month. It's one less thing to worry about after working hard all month.
- That's a good idea. I'm always stressed out on the first trying to remember which bills I need to pay and all that.
- Yeah, it's good to have rent out of the way.
- I think I'll start doing that too!

🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

The team will be preparing for the championship game.

💡 Example 💡 gentle

gentle (noun): While actual medieval societies were full of lots of peasants and a few rich and noble gentles, SCA personas tend to be nobles rather than commoners.

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✳ complaint (noun)

Sounds:
- /kəmˈpleɪnt/

Forms:
- complaints (plural)

complaint (noun) senses:
1. The act of complaining.
2. A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
3. (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
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