🗣 Conversation 🗣

Lee hired his friend on the spot and they made a lot of money that year.
- (Lee) I'm really glad you decided to come work for me. I knew that together we could corner the market!
- Me too, man. I felt kind of weird about asking you for a job, but times were so hard, you know?
- I'm happy you did. With my connections and your chemistry skills, we took the product to a whole new level!
- I am very happy it worked out so well? We never had product as good as this.
- And the money, I didn't even know they printed this much money!
- And this is just from our first year! Imagine the truck loads of cash we'll be swimming in once we get this out globally!

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The dog barks at strangers.

💡 Example 💡 piquerist

piquerist (noun): To classify him as a piquerist would be... too simplistic.

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✳ important (adj)

Sounds:
- /ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt/ (General-American)
- [ɪmˈpɔɹ.ʔn̩t] (General-American)
- [ɪmˈpɔɹ.ɾənt] (US)
- /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹtənt/
- /ɪmˈpoətənt/

Forms:
- more important (comparative)
- most important (superlative)

important (adj) senses:
1. Having relevant and crucial value.
2. (obsolete) Pompous; self-important.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- why not?
- they will drop the new steak on the floor, step on it, and then spit on it.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

We use computers for work.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

To keep everyone in the house comfortable, Casey raked over the coals in the stove and added more wood.
- (Casey) It's getting a little chilly in here.
- It is getting cold in here with that blizzard heading our way.
- I'll have to keep adding wood to keep it warm.
- Do we have enough wood for the week?
- I think so. I may have to chop some when the sun comes up.
- I'll help you.

🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

The team has won the league championship.

✳ English (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ (UK)
- /ˈɪŋɡəlɪʃ/ (UK)
- /ˈɪŋlɪʃ/ (US)
- /ˈɪŋɡləʃ/ (General-Australian)

Forms:
- more English (comparative)
- most English (superlative)

English (adj) senses:
1. Of or pertaining to England.
2. English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
3. Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
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✳ English (noun)

Forms:
- English (plural)
- Englishes (plural)

English (noun) senses:
1. (in the plural) The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen.
2. (Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
3. (uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
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✳ English (name)

Forms:
- Englishes (plural)

English (name) senses:
1. The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
2. A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
3. English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
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✳ English (verb)

Forms:
- Englishes (present, singular, third-person)
- Englishing (participle, present)
- Englished (participle, past)
- Englished (past)

English (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.

💡 Example 💡 draggle-tailed

draggle-tailed (adj): A year before my return Elwood had swapped his old truck for this draggle-tailed creature. He was pleased with the deal—a whole mule for a broken-down truck that had to be removed from the farm in several hundred rusting pieces.

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