🗣 Conversation 🗣

Gas was very expensive in this town, but Casey bought gas anyways.
- (Casey) I didn't want to spend a lot of money on gas but I had no choice.
- I hate driving through the town because gas cost so much.
- It’s unavoidable due to the location.
- I wonder why gas is so expensive in this town?
- That's a good question, I'm going to look it up.
- Let me know what you find out.

🌜 Past Perfect Continuous 🌛

The company had been producing high-quality products for decades.

✳ alone (adj)

Sounds:
- /əˈləʊn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /əˈloʊn/ (General-American)
- /ɐˈluŋ/ (Hong-Kong)

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

alone (adj) senses:
1. By oneself, solitary.
2. (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
3. (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
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✳ alone (adv)

alone (adv) senses:
1. By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
2. Without outside help.
3. Not permitting anything further; exclusively.
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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

The musician has composed a captivating symphony.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- you got up real early.
- i had to take my friend to the airport.

💡 Example 💡 bleah

bleah (intj): You bought that green station wagon? Bleah!

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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The birds chirp in the morning.

✳ guard (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɡɑːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɡɑɹd/ (General-American)

Forms:
- guards (plural)

guard (noun) senses:
1. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
2. (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
3. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
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✳ guard (verb)

Forms:
- guards (present, singular, third-person)
- guarding (participle, present)
- guarded (participle, past)
- guarded (past)

guard (verb) senses:
1. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
2. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
3. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Please tell me how to file things according to the concerned rules.
- Well, all right. There are four points you should keep in mind when you file documents, information and other things.
- What are they?
- They are, keep the documents in chronological order, remove all the chips and pins, punch the documents evenly and place them in the folder.
- And what is the most important point?
- You should always remember that one customer on file is the rule.