🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The flowers smell lovely.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

Sydney felt so bad about the poor people and gave them a ton of money right away.
- (Sydney) Hold up--I'm going to talk to them.
- Don't talk with those homeless people.
- I can't help it. They are so poor, I feel bad for them.
- I can't believe you just gave each of them twenty dollars.
- I can afford it. Don't you feel sorry for them?
- They'll probably just use the money for drugs and alcohol.

✳ approve (verb)

Sounds:
- /əˈpɹuːv/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Forms:
- approves (present, singular, third-person)
- approving (participle, present)
- approved (participle, past)
- approved (past)
- approve (infinitive)

approve (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
2. (transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
3. (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The kids laugh and play.

💡 Example 💡 nickle

nickle (noun): On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Thank you for agreeing to come in and meet with us today.
- Thank you for inviting me.
- I can see from your resume you were in charge of sales for Corporate World Unlimited from 1997 to 1999. Can you please tell me about your responsibilities?
- Yes. I was in charge of profit and loss for the northwest region of Canada. As a manager, I was directly responsible for a 50 % increase in sales over a four-month period.
- What, do you believe, are some of the key attributes that helped you to achieve such an outstanding increase in sales?
- I believe persistence and perseverance are key attributes.

🌜 Future Simple 🌛

By next month, the company will unveil its latest line of eco-friendly products.

✳ painter (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈpeɪntə/ (UK)
- /ˈpeɪntɚ/ (US)

Forms:
- painters (plural)

painter (noun) senses:
1. An artist who paints pictures.
2. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
3. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

sasha asked taylor not to smoke so taylor rolled a cigarette in front of sasha's eyes.
- (Taylor) I hate Sasha for giving me orders
- What did she do this time?
- She told me not to smoke as if I were a kid
- That's unreasonable. So what was your response?
- I intentionally rolled a cigarette in front of her to show her that I cannot be controlled
- Nice act

🌜 Future Simple 🌛

Tomorrow, I will surprise my partner with a romantic candlelit dinner.

💡 Example 💡 automaton

automaton (noun): Nick had heard her play through the very beginning of it a dozen times, until he was screaming at her in his head to go on. Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.

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✳ PM (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˌpiː ˈɛm/

Forms:
- PMs (plural)

PM (noun) senses:
1. Initialism of post meridiem. (The second half of the day, from noon (12:00:00) to (just before) midnight (23:59:59))
2. Initialism of post mortem.
3. Initialism of prime minister.
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✳ PM (verb)

Forms:
- PMs (present, singular, third-person)
- PMing (participle, present)
- PMed (participle, past)
- PMed (past)

PM (verb) senses:
1. To project manage.
2. (Internet, transitive) To send a private message to (a participant in a chat room, etc.).