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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The train arrives at the platform.

💡 Example 💡 vecture

vecture (noun): the vecture or carriage

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Where are you going?
- I'm going to Bill's house.
- What are you going to do there?
- I'm going to help him.
- What's he doing?
- He's fixing his roof.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

My mother knits sweaters in winter.

✳ violent (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/
- /ˈvaɪ.lənt/

Forms:
- violenter (comparative)
- more violent (comparative)
- violentest (superlative)
- most violent (superlative)

violent (adj) senses:
1. Involving extreme force or motion.
2. Involving physical conflict.
3. Likely to use physical force.
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✳ violent (verb)

Forms:
- violents (present, singular, third-person)
- violenting (participle, present)
- violented (participle, past)
- violented (past)

violent (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.

✳ violent (noun)

Forms:
- violents (plural)

violent (noun) senses:
1. (obsolete) An assailant.

Audio (US)

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Jane, I was wondering if you you had any plans for saturday afternoon.
- A friend and I are planing to go out, why? what's up?
- There is a special exhibition of french sculptures at the museum, I was hoping you ' d like to come with me.
- I am afraid I can't I am going to be out all day.
- What about sunday?
- i wish i could, but it's my mums birthday.
- Maybe next week.
- Much as I ' d like to, I am afraid i wont be free next week, I have a lot of work.
- Sorry to hear that, I was really looking forward to spending some more time with you, I really enjoyed our last chat.
- I am really sorry too, maybe I can give you a call sometime.

🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

We have been practicing meditation to reduce stress.

💡 Example 💡 handful

handful (noun): But, aunt, she must have had some kind of education, her accent was so pure, her English so unfaulty. The other girl dropped her h's by handfuls, and made some very wild confusion in her native etymology.

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✳ beach (noun)

Sounds:
- /bit͡ʃ/ (US)
- /biːt͡ʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Forms:
- beaches (plural)

beach (noun) senses:
1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
3. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
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✳ beach (verb)

Forms:
- beaches (present, singular, third-person)
- beaching (participle, present)
- beached (participle, past)
- beached (past)

beach (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.