🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

The company has achieved record profits.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Why have you changed your job so frequently?
- My first job was in a well-established company where the division of labour was very clear. I do not have more chances to enrich my experience. Then I got an opportunity to really broaden my experience with a new company that was starting up, but unfortunately, they closed their service in three months ' time. I have worked in my present company for a considerable length of time and enjoy the job I am doing now, but I think I have accumulated enough experience to take up more challenging post in a much larger and diversified company where I could make solid contribution.

💡 Example 💡 okey-dokey, smokey

okey-dokey, smokey (phrase): "Good evening, Ron. What do you say, let's get the female victim out first." "Okey-dokey, smokey."

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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

The friends are playing board games together.

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- Isn't it a nice day?
- It really is.
- It seems that it may rain today.
- Hopefully it will.
- How come?
- I like how clear the sky gets after it rains.
- I feel the same way. It smells so good after it rains.
- I especially love the night air when it rains.
- Really? Why?
- The stars look so much closer after it rains.
- I really want it to rain today.
- Yeah, so do I.

✳ obligation (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɑb.ləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ (US)

Forms:
- obligations (plural)

obligation (noun) senses:
1. The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
2. A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
3. A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
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💡 Example 💡 squit

squit (noun): I couldn't believe my ears: at Roedean a new girl spent at least a term having it drummed into her what an insignificant little squit she was; and here were these girls being welcoming!

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🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

The researchers will be analyzing data for a groundbreaking study.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- yes, he went through the red light.
- can we call the police?

✳ employee (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɛmplɔɪˈiː/
- /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/
- /(ˌ)ɪm-/

Forms:
- employees (plural)

employee (noun) senses:
1. An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
2. One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.

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🌜 Future Simple 🌛

By 2045, humans will have developed the technology for interstellar travel.

💡 Example 💡 acrimonious

acrimonious (adj): That would be a way more acrimonious custody battle than the one my parents had over me.

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