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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

He plays the guitar skillfully.
💡 Example 💡 primally

primally (adv): As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.

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PARTNERSHIP
partnership (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈpɑːtnəʃɪp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/ (General-American)

Forms:
- partnerships (plural)

partnership (noun) senses:
1. The state of being associated with a partner.
2. An association of two or more people to conduct a business
3. (cricket) The period when two specific batsmen are batting, from the fall of one wicket until the fall of the next; the number of runs scored during this period,
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- those books will slip and you'll fall.
- it's only a couple of feet.
🌜 Past Continuous 🌛

They were decorating the Christmas tree.
🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

They have volunteered at an animal sanctuary.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- You seem to be in the seventh heaven. What's put you on?
- Sarah and I could see eye to eye with each other.
- Did she give up her decision to marry Dick?
- No, I encourage her to go her own way, but she's now having a change of heart.
FULLY
fully (adv)

Sounds:
- /ˈfʊli/

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

fully (adv) senses:
1. In a full manner; without lack or defect.
2. In a full degree; to a full extent.
3. As a minimum; at least.
fully (noun)

Forms:
- fullies (plural)

fully (noun) senses:
1. (uncommon) Synonym of nip slip
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💡 Example 💡 mover and shaker

mover and shaker (noun): People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.

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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

The football players are training hard for the upcoming match.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- What did the doctor say?
- He said that I have been eating too much.
- Did he give you any advice?
- Yes, he asked me to clean up my diet by cutting red meat.
- Yes, you must put yourself on a diet.
MARRIAGE
marriage (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈmæɹɪdʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈmɛɹɪdʒ/
- /ˈmeɹɪdʒ/

Forms:
- marriages (plural)

marriage (noun) senses:
1. The state of being married.
2. (sometimes specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
3. My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
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