🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

The company has launched a new advertising campaign.

💡 Example 💡 scrawled

scrawled (adj): The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- What are your career goals, Miss Li?
- Let me see, I would like to work my way up to a senior management position with a company such as yours.
- Great! It sounds like you might be a good fit. As you know, we ' re one of the largest brokerage houses in the world. Our daily work is quite hectic, and we, re looking for an assistant who can keep us organized ... help keep the engines running smoothly, so to speak. Our hours are long, but the overtime pay is good ... sort of makes up for the long hours.
- What would a typical day be like for me here?
- Well, that ' s the problem. We never seem to have ' typical ' days, but you'd spend about 30 % of your time on the computer. There would also be a lot of telephone time, setting up appointment, and taking care of a lot of support work.
- Oh, yes, I do. My present job is similar in that respect, and I think I ' m doing a good job.

🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

The dancers are rehearsing their dance routine for the show.

✳ heart (noun)

Sounds:
- /hɑːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /hɑɹt/ (General-American)

Forms:
- hearts (plural)

heart (noun) senses:
1. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. (uncountable) One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
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✳ heart (verb)

Forms:
- hearts (present, singular, third-person)
- hearting (participle, present)
- hearted (participle, past)
- hearted (past)

heart (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
3. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Tom, I've got good news for you.
- What is it?
- Haven't you heard that your novel has won The Nobel Prize?
- Really? I can't believe it. It's like a dream come true. I never expected that I would win The Nobel Prize!
- You did a good job. I'm extremely proud of you.
- Thanks for the compliment.
- You certainly deserve it. Let's celebrate!

🌜 Future Perfect Continuous 🌛

The team will have been working remotely for several months when the new office opens.

💡 Example 💡 flack-catcher

flack-catcher (noun): The biography of Edward S. Gruson states that “after being flack-catcher to the president of Harvard University during the recent years of student and community unrest,” the author searched for a totally irrelevant area of study and ended up writing Words for Birds.

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✳ send (verb)

Sounds:
- /sɛnd/

Forms:
- sends (present, singular, third-person)
- sending (participle, present)
- sent (past)
- sent (participle, past)
- sended (nonstandard, participle, past)
- send (infinitive)

send (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
2. (transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
3. To bring to a certain condition.
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✳ send (noun)

Forms:
- sends (plural)

send (noun) senses:
1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
2. (nautical) Alternative form of scend
3. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
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