✳ tale (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈteɪl/

Forms:
- tales (plural)

tale (noun) senses:
1. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
2. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
3. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
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✳ tale (verb)

Forms:
- tales (present, singular, third-person)
- taling (participle, present)
- taled (participle, past)
- taled (past)

tale (verb) senses:
1. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

We attended a family reunion in the countryside.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Mary, why are you so tired?
- I go to the personnel market every day, and put a lot of energy into it.
- Why don't you think about applying for a job on the Internet?
- On the Internet? I have never tried that way.
- Well, it's very convenient and very popular now.
- So how to apply for a job on the Internet?
- Just get online and send your application through email to the employer.
- But how can I know which employer is hiring?
- You could place your job hunting information on the Job Wanted channel on a recruitment website.
- Will the employers see my information?
- Yes. If they think you are a fit, maybe they will contact you.
- Is it safe to job hunt on the Internet?
- If you log in some formal websites, it must be very safe.
- I will give it a try at once.

💡 Example 💡 literary language

literary language (noun): The Erzya and Moksha population, especially in urban areas, has become increasingly exposed to Russian; within this context, both the literary languages and the dialects have been affected to a considerable extent. In the course of being update the literary languages have experienced radical changes. An abundance of Russian terminology has been introduced in dictionaries; grammars have been prescribing the use of concurrent forms of the native and Russian languages as a norm.

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🌜 Future Simple 🌛

Tomorrow, I will volunteer at a beach cleanup to preserve marine ecosystems.

✳ intention (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɪnˈtɛnʃən/

Forms:
- intentions (plural)

intention (noun) senses:
1. A course of action that a person intends to follow.
2. The goal or purpose.
3. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
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✳ intention (verb)

Forms:
- intentions (present, singular, third-person)
- intentioning (participle, present)
- intentioned (participle, past)
- intentioned (past)

intention (verb) senses:
1. To intend.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- i toss and turn all night.
- you should stop drinking coffee.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The car honks to warn pedestrians.

💡 Example 💡 pronouncedly

pronouncedly (adv): His political views had always been pronouncedly liberal.

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✳ conference (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈkɒnf(ə)ɹəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkɑnf(ə)ɹəns/ (General-American)
- [ˈkʰɑɱ.fɹəns] (General-American)
- [ˈkʰɑɱ.fɹn̩s] (General-American)

Forms:
- conferences (plural)

conference (noun) senses:
1. The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
2. (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
3. (sciences) A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
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✳ conference (verb)

Forms:
- conferences (present, singular, third-person)
- conferencing (participle, present)
- conferenced (participle, past)
- conferenced (past)

conference (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, intransitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.

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