Good morning KIB students.
I have to constantly remind you all on Facebook that I have a blog where 50% of the classes I have conducted here on Facebook are documented. You will benefit a lot from it.
Without further ado, let us get down to brass tacks.
There are two expressions that we usually don't say properly.
Live and lets live❌
Live and let live✔
I ran for my dear life❌
I ran for my life✔
or
I ran for dear life✔
Regina swam for her dear life when the shark closed in on her.❌
Regina swam for dear life when the sharks closed in on her.✔
Regina swam for her life when the sharks closed in on her✔
These are very little mistakes we usually make when writing on Facebook or speaking to people.
Honestly speaking, no one is above mistakes but we all strive to be perfect.
I have two mistakes I have been battling to correct for 4 months now.
I know the right thing to say, but I tend to use the wrong one first then I woulf immediately realise what I did and feel embarrassed😃.
These two errors are.
The both of them❌
Both of them✔.
'The' and 'both' don't go together. Somebody should hammer it into my skull. I don't want to keep defaulting.
The next one is
Be rest assured❌
Rest assured✔.
Let me give you examples here.
You can be rest assured, we'd do the job well❌
You can rest assured we'd do the job well.✔
I need to be rest assured of your allegiance❌
I need to rest assured of your allegiance.✔
Actually, English is complicated😃.
Finally,
A new idiomatic expression😃.
I picked up from an Anime cartoon my cousin introduced to me.
'Archer'.
In one of the episodes Archer's mother was trying to negotiate for a ransom she'd have to pay for her son to be released.
She said
'Oh please, sharpen your pencil'
Well, the guy is Russian😃. He replied " Ma'am, I have no pencil to sharpen"
Archer's mum angrily interjected
" It's idiom, idiot!"
The truth, if you travel to the. UK or the US, you'd always feel lost when these idioms are used.
Sharpen your pencils is used to tell a seller that you know the price and he should lop something off to lower the price so you can buy.
When you use it, you are simply saying
“find a way to lower your price or I won't buy—arrive at a more acceptable (that is to say, lower) price.
Alright guys, the class is done and dusted.
*Walks out of the class, peeps through the window*
Close in is a phrasal verb which means tp move closer to someone or something, especially in order to attack. (+ on/around/upon/for etc)
The armed robbers closed in on her as she made to run for dear life.
See you some other time. I love to see you prosper.
KIA is still open, join in noe and enjoy a systematic teaching of the English language.
Toodles
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