English Usage ☝️

Some verbs can only be followed by "to + verb", not "-ing".

🔹 Want – I want to learn English.
🔹 Decide – She decided to travel abroad.
🔹 Hope – They hope to win the match.
🔹 Promise – He promised to call later.
🔹 Plan – We plan to visit our grandparents.


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#Vocabulary

Fear → be afraid of someone or something
Scare → make someone be afraid

🌟We fear rats.

🌟They scare us so much.

Good morning 🥀

No is the most profound yes you can give to your own life. No is not denial. It is affirmation. Every no carves out space for what truly matters. It is a conscious refusal to dilute your focus and your energy. Saying no is a declaration of your commitment to your own path. It reflects maturity, knowing that you cannot serve everyone without losing yourself. The courage to say it is the courage to protect your dreams and your peace. Each no strengthens your authenticity and your ability to show up fully. In a world that shouts for your attention, this is your quiet, powerful resistance.

🔹 List 2️⃣:

🔟 Idiomatic & Figurative Ways to Say

“We Are Different”

1.Like night and day
-She’s super organized, I’m a mess, we’re like night and day.

2.Apples and oranges
-You can’t compare us,we’re apples and oranges.

3.Worlds apart
-When it comes to values, we’re worlds apart.

4.Cut from a different cloth
-He’s cut from a different cloth, totally unique.

5.Not in the same league
-She’s way more experienced, we’re not even in the same league.

6.March to the beat of a different drum
-He doesn’t follow trends, he marches to the beat of a different drum.

7.From different walks of life
-We come from different walks of life, so we see things differently.

8.Oil and water
-We try to work together, but it’s like oil and water.

9.Polar opposites
-Our views on politics? Polar opposites.

10.Speak different languages (figuratively)
-We try to explain our points, but it’s like we speak different languages.

🔟 Common American Ways to Say

“It’s Easy”

1.Piece of cake
– That exam was a piece of cake.

2.A breeze
– Don’t worry, it’s a breeze.

3.Easy peasy
– That task? Easy peasy.

4.No sweat
– I can fix it for you — no sweat.

5.A walk in the park
– Compared to last year, this is a walk in the park.

6.Not rocket science
– Relax, it’s not rocket science.

7.Too easy
– Level one? Too easy.

8.I could do it with my eyes closed
– I’ve done it so many times, I could do it with my eyes closed.

9.That’s nothing
– You call that hard? That’s nothing.

10.A joke
– The driving test was a joke.


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⭕️Pick vs Pick up

👀 Know the difference!


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🔴 (a) Pick – 🌸 To remove or gather with fingers

✔️ Correct: We picked flowers in the garden.

❌ Wrong: We picked up flowers in the garden.


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🔴 (b) Pick up – 🪨 To lift from a surface

✔️ Correct: The naughty boy picked up a stone.

❌ Wrong: The naughty boy picked a stone.


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💡Tip:
👉 Use pick for flowers/fruits.
👉 Use pick up for objects from the ground/table.

⚜Collocations with DISADVANTAGE ⚜


🔅Disadvantage

/ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ $ -ˈvæn-/ ( noun)

➖something that causes
problems, or that makes someone or something less likely to be successful or
effective.



⚜ADJECTIVES:

▪️a big/great/major disadvantage
▫️This method has one major
disadvantage: its cost.

▪️the main disadvantage
▫️The main disadvantage of iron as a material is its weight.

▪️a serious/severe disadvantage
▫️Public transport is very bad
here, which is a serious disadvantage.

▪️a significant disadvantage
▫️This approach does
have a number of significant disadvantages.

▪️a slight/minor disadvantage ▫️Children who are young in their school year sometimes have a slight disadvantage.

▪️a further/additional/added disadvantage
▫️ It’s a very small garden and it has the further disadvantage of facing north.

▪️an unfair disadvantage
▫️This arrangement would
put the UK citizen at an unfair disadvantage.

▪️social/economic/educational
disadvantage
▫️ Unemployment often leads to social disadvantage.

▪️a competitive disadvantage (=one relating to a situation in which people or companies are
competing).
▫️ Firms that are not part of the group would be at a competitive
disadvantage.



⚜VERBS:

▪️have a disadvantage
▫️ Cars have many disadvantages and they
cause a lot of pollution.

▪️suffer (from) a disadvantage
▫️formal Working-class boys
suffer disadvantages in the educational system.

▪️overcome a disadvantage (=succeed in spite of a disadvantage)
▫️She was able to overcome the disadvantages of
poverty.


⚜PREPOSITIONS:

▪️the disadvantage of doing sth ▫️This medicine has the
disadvantage of working slowly.

▪️disadvantages to sth
▫️There are some disadvantages 😱I am disagree with the statement.✔️
😇I disagree with the statement.✔️

⚜Disagree is used only as a verb (NOT as an adjective):'She always disagrees with me.'
to the plan.


⚜PHRASES:

▪️sb/sth is at a disadvantage (=they have a disadvantage
compared to other people, companies etc)
▫️The company was at a
disadvantage compared with its competitors.

▪️put/place sb at a disadvantage (=make
someone less likely to be successful than others)
▫️Not speaking English might put you at a disadvantage.


▪️be/work to the disadvantage of sb (=make someone unlikely to be successful).
▫️ This system works to the disadvantage of women.

▪️advantages and
disadvantages (=the good and bad features of something)
▫️ Both methods have
their advantages and disadvantages.

▪️the advantages outweigh the
disadvantages (=there are more advantages than disadvantages) ▫️The advantages of
building the new road would outweigh the disadvantages.



#Collocations
#Thesaurus
#Fwytm

⚜THESAURUS⚜

🔅Disadvantage🔅


🔸drawback: a bad feature that something has, especially when it has other features that seem good:
●One of the main drawbacks is the price.
●The only drawback that I can think of is that the house is next to a busy road.
● The system has
one slight drawback – it’s rather complicated to use.


🔸the downside: the disadvantage of a situation that in most other ways seems good or enjoyable:
●It’s a great job. The only downside is that I don’t get much free time.
●There is a downside to all this success –
you can’t have any privacy.
●Can you think of a potential downside (=something that might cause problems)?


🔸bad point * especially spoken* : a bad feature that something has:
●All of these designs have both their good points and bad points.

⭕️ Tear vs Tear up


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🔴 (a) Tear 🧥
❌ Don’t say:
John tore up his coat on a nail.
✔️ Say:
John tore his coat on a nail.
🟢 Meaning: To rip or damage something.


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🔴 (b) Tear up 💌
❌ Don’t say:
Philip was angry and tore the letter.
✔️ Say:
Philip was angry and tore up the letter.
🟢 Meaning: To rip something into pieces.


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💡 Quick Tip:
👉 Tear = damage
👉 Tear up = destroy completely 💣