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- do not moan and groan all the time. You are actually much luckier that most people
5. Collective noun phrases a. people
Examples: 1. a company of actor
2. a troupe of dancer 3. a party of friends
4. a gang of laborers 5. a band of musicians
6. a tribe of natives 7. a team of players
8. a posse of policeman 9. a class of pupils
10. a crew of sailor
b. things
Examples: 1. a flight of aero planes
2. a heap of sand 3. a library of book
4. a pack 0f cigarette 5. a suit of clothes
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6. a bale of cotton 7. a chest of drawers
8. a suit of furniture 9. a group of islands
10. a set of tools 11. etc
c. animals
Examples: 1. a brood of chicken
2. a flight of bird 3. a flock of sheepbird
4. a nest of antsmicerabbits 5. a swarm of beesinsects
6. a herd of buffaloescattle a shoal of fish a pack of wolves a team of oxen 7. a litter of kittenspuppies etc
In this section, explanation about idiom is enough here, it is still so many else types of idiom. The other explanations about types of idiom, you can get it in
the book’s robby lou by title ‘The Handbook of English Idioms’.
3.5 Revising Vocabulary
When you have done all the steps each ways of enriching vocabulary, close your book and notebook and remind yourself of what you have been
studying. How much can you remember?
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In this section, you can revise your vocabularies that have been studying. One of the great advantages of revising vocabulary is it help you make the step
from having something in your passive vocabulary to having it in your active vocabulary.
Here are some suggestions to revise your vocabulary; Highlight any word and expression that you forgot when you remind them
Look at the vocabulary and choose ten words and expressions or more that you particularly want or need to learn. Write down them.
Look up any word that you selected in an English-English dictionary. Perhaps the dictionary can help you find some other word based on the
root. Look up the noun, employment, will lead you to the verb “employ”, to the noun “employer and employee, and, perhaps, to the adjectives
“employable, unemployed” and “self-employed”. Write down the words and expression you wish to learn in phonetic script.
Use a dictionary to help you. Write down the word and phrase from the unit in your notebook in a
different way. The next day, ask yourself again, how much can I remember?
Test your self. Cover part of a word or phrase. Can you remember the complete word or phrase?
The great way to memorize our vocabulary is you must use them in your daily activity. You have time to present them in your life or make the new word
active. Here is some advice of doing it.
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Write the words and expressions, you are trying to use it in a sentence relating to your life and interests at the moment.
Make a point of using the new words and expressions in your homework Keep a learning diary in which you note down thing that particularly interest
you about the words you have learnt. Watch out for the words and expressions you are trying to learn in your
general reading of English. If you come across any of them in use, write them in their context in your diary or notebook
Write a paragraph or story linking the words and expressions you want to learn.
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CHAPTER IV WORD USE
4.1 Some Common Confusing Words
Some common confusing words have the same sound but different meaning and spelling. Such word are known as homonyms examples, all ready
and already, the same pronunciation and spelling example, specially and especially, a number of and the number of, one word have many functions
example, before as adverb, conjunction, and preposition. It should be learnt similarity and difference of function of those confusing words. Knowing
similarity and difference of function of the confusing words, can avoid snares of the questions in the TOEFL.
- All ready completely prepared
Already previously; before
We are all ready to start the play. I have already called the police.
- All together all people; all thing Altogether
very; really The teacher and student sang all together
My new house is not altogether finished - Brake
stop; the stopping device in a vehicle Break
rest; pause He braked suddenly
He breaks for coffee - Hear
perceive with the ear Here
in this place
