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BILINGUAL

MINDS

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ENGLISH WORD?

WORDS ORDER

Some examples are: I (S) am cleaning (V) the house (O). He (S) loves (V) the cold breeze (O Now as we know about the basic word order used in simple sentences, we need to step our game up and learn about complex sentences. These sentences can contain, adverbs of place, time, two verbs, an indirect object etc.

In English grammar, the rule of thumb is that the subject comes before the verb which comes before the object. This means that most of the sentences conform to the SVO word order. Note that, this is for the sentences that only have a subject, verb and object. We’ll discuss more complex sentences and their order of words afterwards, but for now, we need to remember that for any type of sentence, we normally put the verb and object together.

LISTENING

Step up one's game

Out of one's league

Play hard to get

Throw in the towel

Rookie mistake

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Paraphrasing

Express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity. Let's try it!