INSIST v.
📖 to say very firmly that something must be done

📌🎧 I insist that you try some of these cookies. 🍘
📌 We insist on formal dress for the upcoming ceremony.
📌 We were going to go home, but they insisted that we stay for dessert.


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📒 (#family) phrasal verbs ✏️

✱ Take After Someone ✱

✲ Personality Traits : صفات في الشخصية

✲ Take after my (family member): I am similar in personality to ....

✲ Stubborn : ( عنيد )
Someone who doesn’t change their mind easily

✲ Level-headed : ( رزين )
Calm, rational, doesn’t get very emotional

✲ Taking after someone more and more: becoming more and more similar

✲ Get that from my dad: learned that personality trait from my dad

👉🏻 How to use it:

“I’d like to say that I take after my dad, because he’s the down-to-earth one, but I think that sometimes I’m much more like my mom.”
“Even though she’s only a few months old, people are saying she already takes after her father because she loves food!”

- be down-to-earth (adj.) : شخص عملي/واقعي

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Situations, times, and people give better lessons than books
Good morning ❤️

#common_mistakes


🔘Mark🔘


😨 Her only distinguishing mark is her long blond hair. ✖️

😇 Her only distinguishing feature is her long blond hair. ✔️

⚜A mark on someone's face or body is a small area of skin that is a different colour from the rest:

🔅 'You've got two dark red marks on your nose where your glasses have been.'

⚜Things such as the colour of someone's eyes and hair, and the shape of their nose, chin and mouth are their features:

🔅 'As soon as he began to
describe her features, I realized that he was talking about Mandy.

#common_mistakes

🔘Mark🔘


😨Before buying a cassette recorder, I asked my friend if he could recommend a good mark.✖️

😇 Before buying a cassette recorder, I asked my friend if he
could recommend a good make. ✔️


😨 As for cigarettes, there are many different marks. ✖️

😇As for cigarettes, there are many different brands. ✔️


⚜mark (also Mk) = a model, type or version (used mainly in trade names):
'a Mk II Jaguar'


⚜make = a particular type of car, washing machine, camera, etc:
🔅 'If you want a really good make, go for a Nikon or a Pentax.'

🔅'Which make of
television do you prefer, Sony or Panasonic?'


⚜brand = a particular type of soap, toothpaste, butter, cigarette, etc:
🔅 'I'm tired of being told which brand of washing powder I should use.'

Good morning, happiness and hope to God on all
Beautiful Saturday 💫☀️


📒 Idioms ✏️

Easy does it! على مَهْلِك

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THE ELEVENTH HOUR
noun
🔹the last possible moment for doing something

📌 We only received the signatures at the eleventh hour.
📌 To change plans at the eleventh hour.
📌 Our pianist had fallen ill, and then, at the eleventh hour, when we thought we’d have to cancel the performance, Jill offered to replace him.
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Zip your lip! Zip it!