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🔻 Ways to say “ BORING “ 🔻


🔸Dull
The first half of the game was pretty dull.

🔹Uneventful
Anna led a quiet, uneventful life.

🔸Dry
Boss reports tend to make dry reading.

🔹Stale
Their marriage had gone stale.

🔸Mind-numbing
It’s a mind-numbing conversation.

🔹Tedious
The journey soon became tedious.



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🔻Although/Though ... yet used instead of although/though🔻


❎ Although it's raining, yet he'll go.

✅ Although it's raining, he'll go.



🟡Note: Although (though) is the conjunction introducing the subordinate clause, and the second one (yet or still) isn't required.



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🔶 Subordinate clause 🔶


♦️A subordinate clause is a clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence; it merely complements a sentence's main clause, thereby adding to the whole unit of meaning. Because a subordinate clause is dependent upon a main clause to be meaningful, it is also referred to as a dependent clause.


🔖NB: For example, in the sentence “I played out until it went dark” , the phrase “until it went dark” is the subordinate clause because it requires additional information in order to make sense.

🔖NB: Subordinate clauses contain a subject noun and a verb.



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🔻Using one time or two times instead of once or twice🔻


❎ I was absent one time or two times.

✅ I was absent once or twice.



🔴Note: Use once and twice instead of one time and two times.



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🔻For and At (Price)🔻


🔸(a) For

❎ I bought a book at fifty pence.

✅ I bought a book for fifty pence.


🔹(b) At

❎ I can't buy it for such a high price.

✅ I can't buy it at such a high price.



🟠Note: Use “for” if the actual sum is mentioned.

⚪️Note: Use “at” if the actual sum isn't given.

🟣Note: If the weight or measure follows the price, use “at” with the actual sum.


✨That velvet is available at £5 a metre.



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🔻One for A (n)🔻


❎ Adam found one ring in the street.

✅ Adam found a ring in the street



🟤Note: Don t use the numeral one instead of the indefinite articte “a or an” .

🟢Note: Use one only where the number is emphatic; He gave me one book instead of two.



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🔻Wrong use of the with abstract nouns🔻


❎ The bravery is a great virtue.

✅ Bravery is a great virtue.



🟡Note: Abstract nouns, if used in a general sense, can't take the article.


🟠Note: Abstract nouns, used in a particular sense, use the article.

✨The bravery of the Spartans was renowned.



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🔷Abstract nouns🔷


♦️They represent intangible ideas—things you can’t perceive with the five main senses.


🔖NB: Words like love, time, beauty, and science are all abstract nouns because you can’t touch them or see them. 


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🔔 Idiom Of The Day 🔔


🔹lay out

spend or pay.


✨Will you lay out the money for the meal and I will pay you back tomorrow?


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🔹learn the ropes

acquire special knowledge of a job.


✨Now that you have started your new position with the company, it will probably take you a few months to learn the ropes.


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