Holidays collocations!

The end of December in the U.S. is known as "the Holidays".

The word "holiday" can mean any holiday, from religious holidays to national holidays like (in the U.S.) Independence Day and Memorial Day. However, "The Holidays" means the time around the end of the year. One reason that English speakers call this time of year "The Holidays" is to avoid simply calling it "Christmas".

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Words that have similar meanings are called "synonyms".

In the past, you may have tried learning lists of synonyms at the same time. For example, you might look at this list of words that are synonyms for "good":

I can't stand...

You're talking about men with a group of girlfriends. Everyone is talking about what kind of men they don't like. You tell them about a quality that you don't like in men.

I can't stand it when a man doesn't trim his nails.

Ways To Use 'OF'

This apple pie was made of the freshest ingredients

A lot of students say that the preposition of gives them a lot of trouble. I agree that of can be tricky to use and I’ve been thinking about how we use it. For this English lesson, I am going to show you how we use of in an English sentence. Are you ready?

What's the weather today?

Let's talk about the weather

1.“It's a little overcast.”

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Using 'in'

The word in has a number of different uses in English. You probably know that in is a preposition, but did you also know that in also used as an adverb, an adjective, and even a noun? Today, let’s have a look at the various uses of this interesting little word.

Using 'the' with Superlatives

If we use a superlative adjective ('the tallest student in the class') then there is obviously only one (or one group) of the things we are talking about. There is one student who is the tallest in the class, and because it's clear to the listener which one we mean, we usually use 'the':