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Figures of Speech =========================== 👉🏻 We have seen that a metaphor is an implied simile. Every simile can be compressed into a metaphor and every metaphor can be expanded into a simile. 🌸 Compare: 🌹Life is like a dream. (Simile) 🌹Life is a dream. (Metaphor) 🟡 Personification In personification inanimate objects and abstract ideas are spoken of as if they have life and intelligence. 🔷 Example 🌹Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay’ 🌹But cometh back on foot, and begs its way. 🟣 Apostrophe An apostrophe is a direct address to the dead, the absent or a personified object or idea. It is a special form of personification. 🌹Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour. 🌹Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll! 🌹O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory? 🌹O Solitude! where are the charms 🌹That sages have seen in thy face? 🟤 Hyperbole In hyperbole a statement is made emphatic by overstatement. Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. 🌹O Hamlet! thou has cleft my heart in twain. 🌹I Loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers 🌹Could not with all their quantity of love 🌹Make up the sum. 🔵 Euphemism In Euphemism, a disagreeable thing is described by an agreeable name. 🔶For example, we often say ‘He has fallen asleep’ or ‘He has passed away’ instead of ‘He has died.’ Other examples are given below: 🌹Old Sam is pushing up the daisies. (= Old Sam is dead.) 🌹He is a little careless of the truth. (= He is a liar.) 🌹She has become hard of hearing lately. (= She has become deaf.) 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy

Did you know the difference between 'act' and 'behave'? ❌ I am interested in the way people act towards each other. ✔️ I am interested in the way people behave towards each other. ❌ It is time that human beings learned how to act properly, without killing each other. ✔️ It is time that human beings learned how to behave properly, without killing each other. When you are talking about what someone does on a PARTICULAR occasion, act and behave are interchangeable: - Passengers who left the flight in Rhodes said that they had seen two men acting/behaving very suspiciously.' When you are talking GENERALLY about what someone does or what people do, use behave: You can't expect all babies to behave the same. To sum up: Act refers to performing specific actions, taking steps, or pretending, often in a single instance (e.g., "act now," "acting in a play"). Behave refers to conducting oneself according to a standard, usually implying a pattern of behavior or following social rules (e.g., "behave yourself," "behave well"). Now, which word do you think fits here? The teacher told the rowdy students that if they did not __, they would be sent to the principal's office. A- act B- behave 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #sirjimmy #teamjimmy

Figure of Speech Part - IV ========================= 💚 Metonymy Metonymy literally means a change of name. In metonymy an object is denoted by the name of something which is generally associated with it. 🔹For example 🌸The Bench, for the judges 🌸The laurel, for success 🌸Bluejackets, for sailors 🌸Red-coats, for British sailors 🌸The Crown, for the king 🔸Since there are different kinds of association between objects, there are several varieties of metonymy. For example, a metonymy may result from the use of the sign for the person or thing symbolized. 🌸From the cradle to the grave (= from infancy to death) 🧡 Lilotes 👉🏻 In Lilotes an affirmative is conveyed by negation of the opposite. It is the opposite of hyperbole. 🌸I am a citizen of no mean city. (= I am a citizen of a very celebrated city.) 🌸He is no fool. (= He is very clever.) 💜 Exclamation 👉🏻 In this figure of speech, the exclamatory form is used to draw greater attention to a point. What a piece of work is man! 🌸How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! 💙 Climax 👉🏻Climax is the arrangement of a series of events or ideas in the order of increasing importance. 🌸What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a God. 💛 Anticlimax 👉🏻Anticlimax is the opposite of climax. It shows a sudden descent from the higher to the lower. The anticlimax is employed for the purpose of satire or ridicule. 🌸Here thou great Anna! whom three realms obey, 🌸Dost sometimes counsel take – and sometimes tea. 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy

👉 Different Ways to Use “GO” in English 🚀 Go shopping 🛍, home 🏠, dancing💃 Go for a walk 🚶, a swim 🏊, a run 🏃 Go on a date ❤️, vacation 🌴, a cruise 🚢 Go to church ⛪️, school 🏫, bed 🛏 Go to a party 🎉, show 🎤, bar 🍺 Go to the toilet 🚽, hospital 🏥, cinema 🎥 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy

🔴Informal: 1. Wanna (want to) 2. Gonna (going to) 3. kinda (kind of) 4. gonna (going to) 5. dunno (don't know) 6. Lotta (A lot of) 7. Buddy (Friend) 🔴Formal: 1. Would like (want to) 2. Going to (planning to) 3. Kind of (somewhat) 4. Do not know (don't know) 5. Going to (intending to) 6. Can't (cannot) 7. Desire (Want) 8. Intend (Plan to) 9. Approximately (About) 10. Numerous (Many) 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #sirjimmy #teamjimmy

Useful Spelling Rules – Part II --- 11 ===================================== 🌼‘se’ and ‘ce’; ‘sy’ and ‘cy’ When two words, verb and noun, are spelt alike, ‘se’ and ‘sy’ are verb endings; ‘ce’ and ‘cy’ are noun endings. The following are therefore verbs: license, practise, prophesy, advise. The following are nouns: licence, practice, prophecy, advice Promise is an exception to this rule. It is a noun. This rule does not hold good when verb and noun are not spelt alike, so ‘suspense’ and ‘hypocrisy’ are nouns. 🌼The final ‘e’ 🎈1. When followed by ‘ment’ Till recently the final ‘e’ was dropped from words ending in ‘dge’. Example: judgment Nowadays, it is not necessary to drop the final ‘e’ before ‘ment’. So you can write ‘judgement’, ‘acknowledgement’, ‘arrangement’ and ‘advertisement’. (See The Concise Oxford Dictionary) 🎈2. The final ‘e’ must be dropped before ‘able’. Move; movable (NOT moveable) Like; likable (NOT likeable) The exceptions are words ending in ‘ge’ and ‘ce’. For instance Change; changeable (NOT changable) Peace; peaceable (NOT peacable) 🎈3. The final ‘e’ is also dropped before ‘ous’, ‘age’ or ‘ish’. Virtue; virtuous Mile; milage (occasionally still: mileage) Blue; bluish Courage is an exception to this rule. We write courageous and not couragous. 🎈4. The final ‘e’ is always dropped before ‘ing’ except when it is preceded by a vowel with which it forms one sound. Love; loving Like; liking See; seeing (Here the final ‘e’ and the preceding vowel forms one sound.) Dye; Dyeing (Here the final ‘e’ and the preceding y forms one sound.) 🌼Words ending in ‘c’ and ‘ck’ Words ending in ‘c’ take ‘k’ after the ‘c’ before adding ‘ed’or ‘ing’. Examples: Frolic - frolicked, frolicking Mimic - mimicked,mimicking picnic - picnicked, picnicking ==================== #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy

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Singular and plural nouns ========================== 👉🏻The label number refers to the grammatical category which relates to the number of countable objects in the world. In English, number is important with nouns. An English noun exhibits a two-way distinction of number: a singular form and a plural form. 🔻The singular form denotes one of something. Examples are: tree, cat, flower, girl, boy etc. 🔺The plural form denotes two or more of something. Examples are: trees, cats, flowers, girls, boys etc. 👉🏻In English, a singular noun usually has no marking while the plural form carries the suffix -s or -es. 🌸Cat / cats 🌸Dog / dogs 🌸Fox / foxes 🌸Fruit / fruits 👉🏻A few dozen nouns form their plurals irregularly. Examples are: 🌸Child / children 🌸Man / men 🌸Woman / women 🌸Foot / feet 🌸Tooth / teeth 🌸Mouse / mice 👉🏻Nouns with only a singular form or only a plural form Some nouns have only a singular form or only a plural form. Nouns which have only a singular form include the following: furniture, wheat, happiness, scenery, news, information, luggage, bread, advice etc. 👉🏻Nouns which have only a plural form include the following: police, cattle, oats, tweezers, pants, remains etc. Nouns with identical singular and plural forms A few nouns in English have identical singular and plural forms. An example is 🐑sheep, deer. 🌸The sheep is hungry. (Sheep – singular)🐑 🌸The sheep are hungry. (Sheep – plural)🐑🐑 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy

More about noun clauses ====================== 👉🏻 A noun clause can be used in apposition to a noun or a pronoun. Study the following sentences. 🔹Your statement that you didn’t take the money can’t be believed. 🔹His belief that someday he would succeed cheered him through his failures. 🔹The news that he is alive made us happy. 🔹The belief that the soul is immortal is almost universal. 👉🏻 Noun clause as the complement of a verb of incomplete predication In each of the following sentences the noun clause is used as the complement of a verb of incomplete predication. 🔹My belief is that he will come. 🔹It seems that he will top the list of successful candidates. 👉🏻 How to construct a sentence having a noun clause? Making a sentence having a noun clause is very easy. One way is to begin a sentence like this: 🔹He said that… 👉🏻 Whatever clause you put after ‘that’ will automatically become a noun clause. 🔹He said that he would come. 🔹He said that he would wait. 🔹He said that he was not interested in the offer. 👉🏻 Instead of ‘said’ , you can use any of the following verbs: 🔷Know, believe, think, realize, feel, hope, understand, wish, see, notice, find, discover, note, hear, listen, tell, ask, request, explain, suggest, reply etc. 🔹She suggested that I should consult a doctor. 🔹I realized that I had made a mistake. 🔹I believe that the soul is immortal. 🔹I discovered that the boy was missing. 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #sirjimmy #teamjimmy

Normal VS Advanced But = However And In addition So = Therefore Because = Due to If = Provided that Then = Subsequently Also = Moreover After = Following Now = At present Soon = In the near future Like = Similar to Start = Commence End = Conclude Help = Assist Get = Obtain Ask = Inquire Show = Demonstrate Tell = ??? 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy

Preposition collocations with nouns and verbs ===================== *️⃣Prepositions cause a great deal of confusion. Most ESL students find it difficult to use them correctly. *️⃣One way of learning the correct use of prepositions is to look at several examples illustrating usage. In English, there are a large number of collocations. These are words which are often used together with other words. 🔎 Examples of collocation are given below. 🌸Comment 🔸The word comment takes the preposition ‘on’. 🔹He commented on her lovely hair. (NOT He commented about her lovely hair.) 🌸Reason 🔸The word reason collocates with the preposition for. 🔹What is the reason for her unhappiness? (NOT What is the reason of her unhappiness?) 🌸Discuss 🔸The verb discuss does not take a preposition. 🔹Let us discuss your problem. (NOT Let us discuss about your problem.) 🌸Consider 🔸The verb consider does not take any preposition. 🔹You should consider every aspect of the situation. (NOT You should consider about every aspect of the situation.) 🌸 Participate 🔸Incorrect: They were asked to participate the group discussion. 🔹Correct: They were asked to participate in the group discussion. ◾️The word participate collocates with the preposition ‘in’. 🌸Adapt 🔸Incorrect: One must be able to adapt changing circumstances. 🔹Correct: One must be able to adapt to changing circumstances. ◾️The verb adapt takes the preposition ‘to’. 🌸Dissatisfaction 🔸Incorrect: These protests show their dissatisfaction of the new rules. 🔹Correct: These protests show their dissatisfaction with the new rules. ◾️Dissatisfaction takes the preposition ‘over’. 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #sirjimmy #teamjimmy

Prepositions in collocations ==================== 🌼Invest with / invest in 🔸To invest someone with something is to give them a particular quality. 🔹These animals have been invested with an ability to survive in extreme climates. 🔸To invest someone with something is to give them power, authority or influence. 🔹The Black Cats are invested with the authority to protect the minister. 🌼Invest in 🔸To invest in something is to buy it or to spend money on something that will be profitable or useful in the long time. 🔹He plans to invest in real estate. 🔹I think I should invest in a new laptop. 🔹The government should invest in education. 🌼Authority on 🔸If you are considered an authority on something, you are an expert in that subject. 🔹He is an authority on classical music. 🔹This book is acknowledged to be the authority on idiomatic expressions. 🌼Authority over 🔹Parents have legal authority over their children. (= Parents have a legal right to make decisions that affect their children.) 🌼Proceed with / to 🔸To proceed with something is to continue something. 🔹The local council plans to proceed with its decision to demolish the old fort. 🔸To proceed to is to move in a particular direction. 🔹Passengers for flight 303 should proceed to Gate 32. 🔸To proceed to is to move to the next stage in a series of events. 🔹The Italian team will proceed to the semifinals. 🌼Impressed with / by 🔸Impress can be used with by and with. There is little or no difference of meaning. 🔹I was impressed with / by her knowledge. 🌼Genius for 🔸If you have a genius for something, you have a natural talent for doing it. 🔹She has a genius for choosing the right words. 🔹Napoleon had a genius for military tactics. 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 #tips #teamjimmy #sirjimmy