You won't be a great moon
If only all this darkness hadn't surrounded you!
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TO PUSH THE ENVELOPE

🔹 to do something new and different that goes beyond what was previously thought to be possible; to innovate

📌 Her new website really pushes the envelope of what the Internet can be used for.
📌 He is a performer who consistently pushes the envelope of TV comedy.
📌 We're really pushing the envelope on this technology
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⚜️A lot of, lots of with a noun⚜️

📌We use a lot of and lots of in informal styles.

📌Lots of is more informal than a lot of.

📌A lot of and lots of can both be used with plural countable nouns and with singular uncountable nouns for affirmatives, negatives, and questions:

✅We’ve got lots of things to do.

✅That’s a lot of money.

✅There weren’t a lot of choices.

✅Can you hurry up? I don’t have a lot of time.

✅Are there a lot of good players at your tennis club?

✅Have you eaten lots of chocolate?

📔 Break the ice



📋Meaning
  To attempt to become friends with someone.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “He made a weather joke to break the ice.”
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🌀 Would


🎀Would you show me the way to the station?


🎀He used to get up early when he was ten
🎀He would get up early when he was ten


🎀I want to see Mr.pitt
🎀I would like to see Mr.pitt


🎀Do you want to come with us?
🎀Would you like to come with us?

On, At, In. (Time.):

(a) On.
✖️Don't say: My uncle will arrive at Saturday.

✔️Say: My uncle will arrive on Saturday.

(b) At.
✖️Don't say: I usually get up on seven o'clock.

✔️Say: I usually get up at seven o'clock.

(c) In.
✖️Don't say: She goes for a walk at the afternoon.

✔️Say: She goes for a walk in the afternoon.

(1) Use "on" with the days of the week or month: on Friday, on March 25, on New Year's Day

(2) Use "at" with the exact time: at four o'clock, at dawn, at noon, at sunset, at midnight.

(3) Use "in" with a period of time in April, in winter, in 1945, in the morning

Also: at night and by day

✴️Like & as If

💠نستخدم like or as if لقول "كيف يبدو /او يشعر شخص وشئ ما" :
#Ex
💠That house looks like it’s going to fall down
👈هذا المنزل يبدو أنه سوف يسقط
✅That house looks as if it’s going to fall down.
👈 هذا المنزل يبدو كما لو أنه سيسقط.

💠Amy sounded like she had a cold, didn’t she?
👈إيمي بدت وكأنها مصابة بنزلة برد, أليس كذلك?
✅Amy sounded as if she had a cold, didn’t she?
👈 إيمي بدت كما لو كانت مصابة بنزلة برد, أليس كذلك?

💠I don’t feel like I’ve had a holiday.
👈لا أشعر أنني قضيت عطلة
✅I don’t feel as if I’ve had a holiday.
. 👈 لا أشعر كما لو كان لدي عطلة.

✴️تستطيع ايضا القول as though بهذه الامثله :
🔆I don’t feel as though I’ve had a holiday.

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🔰 #مقارنة

🔆You look tired. (look + adjective)
🔰You look like you haven’t slept.
🔰 You look as if you haven’t slept.
🔸#القاعدة (look like + ـas if +الفاعل+الفعل)

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✴️نقول it looks like او it looks as if …
✴️ونقولit sounds like او it sounds as if …
#Ex
🔆Sarah is very late. It looks like she isn’t coming.
✅It looks as if she isn’t coming.
🔆It looked like it was going to rain, so we took an umbrella.
✅ It looked as if it was going to rain …
is very loud next door.
🔆The noise sounds like they’re having a party.
✅ It sounds as if they’re …

💠يمكن ايضا القول "as though":
🔆It sounds as though they’re having a party.
👈يبدو كما لو أنهم يقيمون حفلة.

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✴️يمكن استخدام like / as if / as though مع الافعال الاخرئ للقول كيف ان شخص يعمل شي:

🔆He ran like he was running for his life.
👈ركض كما لو كان يركض من أجل حياته.

🔆After the interruption, the speaker went on talking as if nothing had happened.
👈بعد الانقطاع ، استمر المتحدث في الحديث وكأن شيئا لم يحدث.

🔆When I told them my plan, they looked at me as though I was mad.
👈عندما قلت لهم خطتي, نظروا في وجهي كما لو كنت مجنونا.
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✴️بعد " as if " بعض اوقات نستخدم الفعل الماضي بعدها عندما نتكلم بالحاضر
#Ex :
🔆I don’t like him. He talks as if he knew everything.
👈أنا لا أحبه. يتحدث كما لو كان يعرف كل شيء.

🔸المعنئ ليس بالماضي لكن نستخدم الماضي (knew)
👈لان الفكره ليست حقيقة لانه هو لايعرف كل شي
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✴️نستخدم الفعل الماضي بنفس الطريقة مع if & wish لكن لانستخدم Like بهذه الطريقة :

#Ex
🔆She’s always asking me to do things for her – as if I didn’t have enough to do already.
(I have enough to do already)
👈 إنها تطلب مني دائما أن أفعل أشياء لها - كما لو لم يكن لدي ما يكفي للقيام به بالفعل.
(لدي ما يكفي للقيام به بالفعل ☹️)

🔆Sami only 40. Why do you talk about him as if he was an old man?
(he isn’t an old man)
عندما تستخدم الفعل الماضي بهذه الطريقة انت تستطيع استخدام "Were" بدلا من "Was"
👈سامي عمره 40 لماذا تتحدث عنه كما لو كان رجل عجوز?
(إنه ليس رجلا عجوزا ☹️)

🔆Why do you talk about him as if he were an old man?
👈لماذا تتحدث عنه كما لو كان رجل عجوز?

🔆They treat me as if I were their own son.
✅ as if I was their own son. (I’m not their son)
👈 يعاملونني كما لو كنت ابنهم. (أنا لست ابنهما)

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🟣conjure up

✍to present to the mind; evoke or imagine

⭕️For example:

"He conjured up a picture of his childhood"
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🟣Get behind

✍To learn, work, or progress more than others

⭕️For example:

"He had gotten behind in his classes because he was always absent."
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