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  Learn ENNglish   Wishes and hypotheses   Wishes We use past tense forms to talk  about wishes: We use past tense modals would and could to talk about wishes for the future : I don’t like my work. I wish I could get a better job. That’s a dreadful noise. I wish it would stop. I always have to get home early. I wish my parents would let me stay out later.    We use past tense forms to talk about wishes for the present : I don’t like this place. I wish I lived in somewhere more interesting. These seats are very uncomfortable. I wish we were travelling first class. Everyone wishes they had more free time. John wishes he wasn’t so busy. I wish it wasn’t so cold.   We use the past perfect to talk about wishes for the past : I wish I had worked harder when I was at school. Mary wishes she had listened to what her mother told her. I wish I hadn’t spent so much money last month. ...

🐞 Covid-19: Indians told to mask up amid China coronavirus surge ENNglish |  Updates 🐞Indian government officials have asked people to follow Covid appropriate behaviour India's health minister has called for a return to Covid-appropriate behaviour, including wearing masks in public, as the country steps up surveillance of cases. Top health officials have also asked people to get vaccinated and take booster doses. India had relaxed its mask-wearing rules earlier this year after a drop in infection levels. But a surge in cases in neighbouring China has put the country on alert. Over the past few months, India reported four Covid-19 cases caused by BF.7, the Omicron subvariant linked to a spike in cases in China. The cases - three in Gujarat state and one in Odisha - were detected in July, September and November and the patients have recovered, health officials have said. According to government data, India currently has only around 3,400 active coronavirus cases, but r...

Exclamatory Words Emotion Exclamatory Words Joy Hurrah! Sorrow Oh! Alas! Ah! Oh dear! Amusement Ha! Ha! Reproof Fie! Fie! Surprise My goodness! Good gracious! Annoyance Bother! Bother it! Approval Bravo! Contempt of Ridicule Stuff! Bosh! Tut! Tut! Tush! To Call Someone Hi! Holloa! Doubt Hum! Hem! Humph! Anger Confound you! Disgust Ugh! Anger For goodness sake! Horror Good heavens! Praise or Applause Well done! Surprise My God! Contempt You mischief monger! Greet ...

It and There It and There English clauses always have a subject: Her father has just retired. Was a teacher → He was a teacher. I’m waiting for my friend. Is late → She is late. Look at the time! Is half past two → It’s half past two. Except for the imperative : Go to the market. Play it again, please. If we have no other subject, we use there or it . There We use there as a dummy subject with part of the verb be followed by a noun phrase : • To introduce a new topic : There is a meeting this evening. It will start at seven. There has been an accident. I hope no one is hurt. • With numbers or quantities : There was a lot of rain last night. There must have been more than fifty people in the room. • To say where something is: There used to be a playground near the temple. There are mango trees in the garden. I wonder if there will be anyone...

WHAT IS A BROAD-BASED EDUCATION? Some animals in a forest decided to start a school.  The students included a bird, a squirrel, a fish, a dog, a rabbit and a mentally retarded eel.  A board was formed to determine the curriculum and it was decided that flying, tree climbing, swimming, and burrowing would give a broad-based education.  All animals were required to take all subjects. The bird was excellent at flying and was getting A's but when it came to burrowing, it kept breaking its beak and wings and started failing. Pretty soon, it started making C's in flying and, of course, in tree climbing and swimming it was getting F's.  The squirrel was great at tree climbing but was failing in swimming. The fish was the best swimmer but couldn't get out of the water and thus got F's in everything else.  The dog didn't join the school, stopped paying taxes and kept fighting with the administration to include barking as part of the curriculum. (you can under...

Means of Transport By means of transport: ❎ By a land. ❎ By a sea. ❎ By a bus. ❎ By a taxi. ❎ By a plane. ❎ By the land. ❎ By the sea. ❎ By the bus. ❎ By the taxi. ✅ By land ✅ By sea ✅ By bus ✅ By taxi ✅ By plane He goes to Pune by air. But , when the means of transport is used as a countable noun: - A/an is used. He has to buy a car. 🧠 The + means of transport: ✅ Ride on the bicycle. ✅ Sit on the bicycle. ...

The number 40 is spelled  forty  despite the fact that  four  contains a  u .   Even though it is often misspelled  fourty , the only widely accepted spelling of the number is  f orty .   Hello, everyone. We have an announcement. We are pleased/sorry to report that there is never a  u  in  forty .   That's right: the word for the number 4 is  four , but ten times that is 40, which is spelled  forty . This is true in all of the vast English language, despite rumours that users of British English like the word to resemble  colour  (they don't), and despite the frequent appearances of the misspelling out and about.   In related facts, the number 14 keeps the  u : it's written as  Fourteen But  fortieth  correlates to  forty , so it too goes without a  u .   *Ref. Dictionary.*