Learn And Teach English in Gujarat

 

*Collocations with HAVE*  Have a bath Have a drink Have a good time Have a haircut Have a holiday Have a problem Have a relationship Have a rest Have lunch Have sympathy …  *Collocations with TAKE*  Take a break Take a chance Take a look Take a rest Take a seat Take a taxi Take an exam Take notes Take someone’s place …  *Collocations with PAY*  Pay a fine Pay attention Pay by credit card Pay cash Pay interest Pay someone a compliment Pay someone a visit Pay the bill Pay the price Pay your respects …  *Collocations with COME*  Come close Come complete with Come early Come first Come into view Come last Come late Come on time Come prepared Come right back Come second Come to a compromise Come to a decision Come to an agreement Come to an end Come to a standstill Come to terms with Come to a total of Come under attack …  *Collocations with DO*  Do business Do nothing Do someone a favor Do the cooking Do the washing up Do your best Do your hair D...

The differences between the Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous Tenses...👇👇👇 (1) I have been playing tennis for five years. The tense is the Present Perfect Continuous Tense. The time phrase indicates the duration (five years). The combination of the tense and the time phrase forces us to read it as: "I have been playing tennis for five years now." This gives us the reading that the activity has been going on for five years up until now. It also implies that the activity is likely to keep continuing, at least in the immediate future. (2) I have played tennis for five years. The tense is the Present Perfect Simple. The time phrase is, again, "for five years". However, the sentence is different from (1). It doesn't force us to read the time part as "for five years up to now".  It's unclear exactly when exactly in the past  the speaker has played tennis. All we know is that it happened before now, at least five years but before no...

*Mind blowing facts about English language* The English language is the only language in the world that capitalises the word ‘I’. Importance of self is very prominent in the English language. The longest word in the English language is “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” and the second longest is “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”. “I am/go” is the shortest complete sentence in the English Language. The word “Uncopyrightable” is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once. Only 3 words in the English language end in ‘ceed’: proceed, succeed and exceed. The dot on the top of the letter ‘i’ is called a “tittle”. There are more English words beginning with the letter ‘S’ than with any other letter. The word “Bookkeeper” and “Bookkeeping” are the only 2 words in the English language with 3 consecutive sets of double letters. ‘Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’ is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. Of all...

One word in the English language that could be a noun, verb, adj, adv, prep is *UP*.Read until the end... you'll laugh. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is *'UP'*. It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. It's easy to understand *UP*, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake *UP*? At a meeting, why does a topic come *UP*? Why do we speak *UP*, and why are the officers *UP* for election (if there is a tie, it is a toss *UP*) and why is it *UP* to the secretary to write *UP* a report? We call *UP*our friends, brighten *UP* a room, polish *UP* the silver, warm *UP* the leftovers and clean *UP* the kitchen. We lock *UP* the house and fix *UP* the old car. At other times, this little word has real special meaning. People stir *UP* trouble, line UP for tickets, work *UP* an appetite, and think *UP* excuses. To be dre...

🔴 A plum job = a very good job 🅾 John got a plum job at an insurance company. 🔵 Go pear-shaped = to fail or to be unsuccessful 🅾 Our movie plans went pear-shaped. 🔴 Peach = a person who is beautiful, helpful： a very nice person. 🅾 Mario is such a peach; he always helps us with work. 🔵 Lemon = a product that does not work properly 🅾 That car dealer, he sold me a lemon. 🔴 Apples and oranges = to be different from each other 🅾 Though they are twins, they are like apples and oranges. 🔵 Not give a fig = to not feel interested in something 🅾 I don’t give a fig about politics, it is so boring. 🔴 A bite at the cherry = an opportunity to achieve something 🅾 That promotion was your last bite at the cherry. 🔴 Go bananas = to become very angry, crazy or annoyed 🅾 I go bananas when I lose any game. 🔵 The apple of your eye = the person you are very fond of  🅾 My baby sister is the apple of my eye.