Common Mistakes in English
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Using the wrong preposition

💬 Guilty of, not for.
🔠 Don’t say : He was found guilty for murder.
🔂Say : He was found guilty of murder .

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💬 Independent of , not from .
🔠 Don’t say : Clare’s independent from her parents .
🔂Say : Clare’s independent of her parents .
🔔Note: We say dependent on ; A child is dependent on its parents .

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💬 Indifferent to, not for .
🔠 Don’t say : They’re indifferent for politics .
🔂Say : They’re indifferent to politics .

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💬 Insist on, not to,
🔠 Don’t say : He always insisted to his opinion .
🔂Say : He always insisted on his opinion .
🔔Note: persist takes in ; He persisted in his silly ideas .

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💥💥 appease /əˈpiz/ Verb [ T ] ​formal

Ⓜ to make (someone) pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired

✳ A simple apology will appease my wounded pride and make me feel better.

✨ appeasement noun [ C or U ]
💢 synonyms: pacify, placate, conciliate

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💥💥 tote /toʊt/ verb [ T ] informal

✅ (To tote- totes, toted, toting)
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Ⓜ to carry something with you

✳ Tommy always totes around his cell phone."
✳ Spend the day toting kids around to school and the store."

✨ tote noun
✨ tote bag noun [ C ] : a bag, usually made of cloth, with handles and an open top

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💥💥 Vigilant /ˈvɪdʒ·ə·lənt/ adjective
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Ⓜ being very careful to notice things, esp. signs of danger

✳ Security personnel need to be more vigilant in checking bags and packages.

✨ vigilance noun
✨ vigilantly Adverb
💢 synonyms: watchful, observant, attentive

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 📕  Select readings intermediate

This four-level American English reading course uses carefully selected reading texts to help students read effectively. Exercises before and after reading practise reading skills, check comprehension and build vocabulary

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Today's idioms:

💢 MISS THE BOAT 🛥

Ⓜ️ Meaning: when someone has missed their opportunity to do something

✅ Have you applied for that job yet?
No, I think I may have missed the boat. I should’ve done it last week.
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💢 No Hard Feelings 🤬

Ⓜ️ no ill will, no resentment or anger

✅ Unfortunately these layoffs are out of our control. I hope there are no hard feelings.
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💢 Red-Letter Day 🍷

Ⓜ️ a special, happy, and important day that you will always remember:

✅ The day I first set foot in America was a red-letter day for me.

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Today's phrasal verbs are:

🤬 Be cut up
❎ Bargain on
💲 Bargain down

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🏠 HOME vs. HOUSE 🏠

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⏰ Present perfect tense

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Fill in the blank with the missing word: (your reaction is your answer)

Bob had never baked anything before in his life, He didn’t even have a ..... about how to turn the oven on.

👍) hint
❤️) suggestion
👏) clue

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Fill in the blank with the missing word: (your reaction is your answer)

If you need to learn something quickly, you'd better take a ...... course.

👍) crash
❤️) fast
👏) beginner's

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〽️ Essential Suffixes 〽️
(Essential prefixes here)

➖ Strengthen your vocabulary by learning critical suffixes 💪

➖ A suffix appears at the end of a word and modifies its meaning or part of speech❗️


✅ Memorize the following 🚩 suffixes to expand your vocabulary:

1️⃣ ABLE - capable of. E.g.:
a) speakable - capable of being spoken;
b) perishable - likely to spoil or decay;

2️⃣ ATION - action or process. E.g.:
a) exploration - act of exploring or investigating;
b) hesitation - act of pausing or delaying.

3️⃣ IOUS - characterized by. E.g.:
a) ambitious - having a strong desire to succeed;
b) victorious - having achieved a victory.

4️⃣ ISM - doctrine or religion. E.g.:
a) conservatism - doctrine of traditional practices;
b) monotheism - religious belief in a single deity.


5️⃣ IST - practioner. E.g.:
a) novelist - writer of novels;
b) scientist - practioner of science.


6️⃣ LESS - without. E.g.:
a) flawless - without any imperfections;
b) regardless - without concern for the situation.


7️⃣ NESS - state or quality. E.g.:
a) happiness;
b) wilderness - uninhabited and uncultivated region.


8️⃣ OUS - resembling. E.g.:
a) dangerous - involving possible harm;
b) instantaneous - happening in a single moment.


✅ For notes 📝:
🔅 Suffixes can't stand alone as their own words, but they can significantly change a word's meaning.

🔅 They can also change the grammatical form of a word.
For instance, the word friend is a noun. But when the suffix -ly is added to it, it becomes and adjective: friendly.

🔅 There are fewer common suffixes than there are common prefixes, and learning common suffixes will help you figure out more complex vocabulary words.


🔅 The word suffix derives from the ancient Latin sub, meaning subordinately and figere, meaning to fix. It entered English in the late 18th century from the modern Latin suffixum.


🔰 Some common suffixes are:

♦️ -ful: full of
example: sorrowful

♦️ -al: relating to
example: presidential

♦️ -ion: act or process
example: maturation

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📍 Stable

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🎶 Song title: This life
🎵 Released: 2011

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♾ Countable and uncountable nouns

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💎 Memory.
✅This study activity will help you retrieve words from memory more rapidly, eliminate tip-of-the-tongue moments while speaking 🗣, and also master new words and expand your vocabulary👍

✅Your task is to recall a word combining the necessary letters (they will serve you as an aid and watch out, there are unnecessary ones too!), and matching the given definition.

📄 Now an example:

🔘 surprising and enexplainable event
mir... t s k l c e a❓— miracle! 👍


1️⃣ unable to do something
ina... i y t b l i n j k ❓

2️⃣ quality of being friendly, helpful, and agreeble
kin... a d e s s y n o p ❓

3️⃣ state of being legally responsible
lia... b l y i i q b t ❓

4️⃣ weakening, especially through lack of use
at... h o p r y n m s ❓

5️⃣ imagination unrestricted by reality
fa... t a s i y n w q ❓

6️⃣ to examine something carefully
in... p e t b s c t w ❓

7️⃣ pleasant smelling
fr... g r l n t s a h a ❓

8️⃣ to do something festive for a special occasion
cel... b r i е o t e j a ❓

9️⃣ balance among the parts of something
sym... t r m y e w s ❓

🔟 to control, hold, or restrain
con... a i u n r t ❓

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🔠🔠 Grammar tip:

⭕️ Afraid as an adjective means ‘feeling fear’.

🔰 We use it with:

1️⃣ of + noun
⚠️ Are you afraid of the dark?

2️⃣ of + (-ing) form
⚠️ She seemed afraid of walking home alone.

3️⃣ a to-infinitive
⚠️ If you don’t understand, don’t be afraid to ask.

4️⃣ a that-clause
⚠️ They looked afraid that we might get lost in the city centre

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⭕️ Afraid of vs. Afraid to

〽️ When do we use afraid + infinitive (to climb, to say, to go, etc.)❓

📝 We use afraid + infinitive when we explain the fear itself.

➰ I am afraid to go out in the dark.
➰ He is afraid to travel by plane.
➰ They are afraid to cross the high bridge over the river.

〽️ When do we use afraid of + (-ing) form (climbing, saying, going, etc.)❓

➰ I am afraid of falling.
⚠️ (I am afraid because I might fall.)

➰ He is afraid of making a mistake.
⚠️ (He is afraid because he may make a mistake.)

➰ They are afraid of getting lost in the forest.
➰ They are afraid because they may get lost.

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