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Board, Bored...

Posted by BeritaSeo - At 08.02 - Have 0 komentar
Are you bored or a board?




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Funny English

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eggplant, pineapple, hamburger, guinea pig

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Appstracted

Posted by BeritaSeo - At 11.18 - Have 0 komentar
Apps make our lives easier...or, do they?


To be appstracted is to be distracted by an app.


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Girls wanna...

Posted by BeritaSeo - At 00.32 - Have 0 komentar

What do women/girls want?



  • Women make up 80% of all refugees and displaced people. 
  • Women are seldom included in formal peace processes.
  • More than 16.4 million women in the world have HIV/AIDS.
  • 603 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not yet considered a crime.
  • Over 60 million girls worldwide are child brides, married before the age of 18.
  • Women account for 70% of the population living in absolute poverty (on less than $1.00 a day).
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Friend or Foe

Posted by BeritaSeo - At 04.26 - Have 0 komentar

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!

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#proverbs
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Island

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No man is an island!

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#proverbs
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Convenient Conventions

Posted by BeritaSeo - At 05.25 - Have 0 komentar
On 22 August 1864, several European states congregated in Geneva, Switzerland and signed the Geneva Convention.

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In 1991 following a decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last Swiss canton to grant women the vote on local issues.
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LOL

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LOL or lol, an acronym for laugh(ing) out loud, or lots of laughs, is a popular element of Internet slang.



It was first used almost exclusively on Usenet, but has since become widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication and even face-to-face communication.

However, the pre-Internet version of the acronym meant “lots of love” or “lots of luck."

[source: Wikipedia]

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Healthy vs Healthful

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Both healthy and healthful are used to describe food that is believed to be good for your health, but healthy is by far the more common choice in the phrase healthy food. 


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Since the late 1800s, usage commentators have been telling English speakers that only healthful can be used to mean "beneficial to health of body or mind" or "good for your health," but this is simply not true; healthy has been used in this way since the middle of the 16th century. In short, then, both "healthful food" and "healthy food" are correct, but "healthy food" is by far the more common collocation, even in published, edited text. 

As for health food, this term actually functions as a compound noun with a somewhat more specific meaning than "healthy/healthful food." It's much more common than either healthy food or healthful food in English.

Health food is defined in Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary, as follows:
: a food that is believed to be good for your health : a food that has no artificial ingredients 
  • He eats only health food. 
  • She shops at the health-food store. 
  • The restaurant offers a variety of health foods.
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Plural -o

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Nouns ending in -o can add either -s or -es in the plural, and some can be spelled either way.


potato - potatoes
tomato - tomatoes
buffalo - buffaloes
domino - dominoes
mosquito - mosquitoes
but
studio - studios
solo - solos
zoo - zoos
embryo - embryos
and
flamingo - flamingos - flamingoes
tornado - tornados - tornadoes
mango - mangos - mangoes
fresco - frescos - frescoes
volcano - volcanos - volcanoes
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Teacher: definition

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Impersonal pronouns: We can use impersonal pronouns to talk about people in general or for unspecified objects.




  • They don't speak Italian in this part of the country.
  • You really can't find anything in this shop.
  • One can never be too careful (note that in everyday English, people usually use 'you' instead of 'one' - You can never be too careful)

they / them / their

We use they / them / their in singular when we talk about someone who is either male or female, to avoid saying 'he or she'

  • If anyone doesn't like it, they can leave.
  • Someone has left their umbrella behind.
  • When a friend upsets you, do yo tell them?
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Can you find the panda?

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Older vs Elder

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Elder and eldest can be used instead of older and oldest to talk about the order of birth of the members of a family.



They are only used attributively (before nouns).
Compare:

  • My elder/older brother has just got married.
He's three years older than me. (NOT ... elder than me.)

  • His eldest/oldest daughter is a medical student.
She's the oldest student in her year.

Elder brother/sister are used when a person has only one brother/sister who is older; eldest is used when there are more.

  • elder son/daughter is the older of two; 
  • eldest son/daughter is the oldest of two or more.
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Dude

Posted by BeritaSeo - At 07.00 - Have 0 komentar

The word was first used in the late 1800s as a term of mockery for young men who were overly concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions.



It later came to stand for clueless city folk (who go to dude ranches) before it morphed into our all-purpose laid-back label for a guy.

[source: mentalfloss]
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