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🌜 Future Simple 🌛

Tomorrow, I will surprise my parents with a heartfelt gesture.
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- babies cry all the time.
- you have to change their diapers.
🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

I have finished writing a short story.
💡 Example 💡 maybe

maybe (adv): Maybe I was imagining it, but I could swear that the dog understood what I was saying.

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ORIGINAL
original (adj)

Sounds:
- /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəl/
- /əˈɹɪd͡ʒənəl/
- /əˈɹɪd͡ʒnəl/
- /ɒˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəl/ (obsolete)

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

original (adj) senses:
1. (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
2. (not comparable) First in a series of copies or versions.
3. (not comparable) Newly created.
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original (noun)

Forms:
- originals (plural)

original (noun) senses:
1. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
2. A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
3. (archaic) An eccentric person.
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🌜 Future Perfect Continuous 🌛

I will have been saving money for a trip around the world for five years.
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- did you like it?
- i loved it. i want to live there.
💡 Example 💡 parthenophile

parthenophile (noun): evolution is not 'interested': it does not proceed from the intentions of individual actors, be they scheming women or parthenophile (virgin-loving) men

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DESK
desk (noun)

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

Forms:
- desks (plural)

desk (noun) senses:
1. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
3. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
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desk (verb)

Forms:
- desks (present, singular, third-person)
- desking (participle, present)
- desked (participle, past)
- desked (past)

desk (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
2. (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

The chef won a cooking competition.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- What would you like to drink?
- I feel like a cup of black tea.
- Wouldn't you like something to eat?
- Yes, I'd like a portion of that strawberry tart.
- Right. I'll see if I can catch the waitress's eye.