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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

They have renovated their living room.
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- that sounds good.
- all right, so i'll see you then.
HARDLY
hardly (adv)

Sounds:
- /ˈhɑːdli/ (UK)
- /ˈhɑɹdli/ (US)

Forms:
- hardlier (comparative)
- more hardly (comparative)
- hardliest (superlative)
- most hardly (superlative)

hardly (adv) senses:
1. (degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
2. (now rare) With difficulty.
3. (manner, archaic) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.
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hardly (intj)

hardly (intj) senses:
1. Not really.
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💡 Example 💡 office

office (noun): In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

Mary has won several awards for her art.
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Aubrey was a difficult person so no one knew if they should introduce her or if she suited one's friend.
- (Aubrey) Sometimes I think I'm to fussy.
- Yeah, you can be difficult sometimes.
- Yeah, I think that's why its hard for me to make friends.
- I'd think about it if I were you.
VARIATION
variation (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˌvɛəɹɪˈeɪʃn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/ (General-American)
- /ˌvæɹiˈeɪʃn̩/ (General-American)
- /ˌvɛɹiˈeɪʃn̩/ (General-American)

Forms:
- variations (plural)

variation (noun) senses:
1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
2. A related but distinct thing.
3. (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
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🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

The scientists will be developing new technologies for space exploration.
💡 Example 💡 carbocyclization

carbocyclization (noun): Further studies on the tandem carbocyclization mechanism are ongoing in our laboratory and will be reported in due course.

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- no, not recently.
- i want to go to see a movie this weekend.
🌜 Past Perfect Continuous 🌛

By the time we got to the cinema, the movie had been running for an hour.
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