![]() ![]() The pale, fumy drift of the Milky Way drooped down and seemed so near, straight in front, that it seemed the obvious road to take. Glow N | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectiblesīut so far Guangzhou remained ordinary in its fumy haze of motorbike and truck exhaust, its shrill clamor of traffic horns and keening brakes. Especially now during the pandemic, its natural for your little one to feel anxious. Ready to take your English to the next level? Visit our website and find more about or Specialised Online English Courses and Private lessons.We blinked hard, and with little puffs blew from our lips the glowing spray, fumy and sour.īoth are strong and fumy you will need to have plenty of fresh air moving through or you might cause harm to yourself. Weve got funny four letter words your kids might enjoy learning. Why not go out and learn some of these phrases and in dribs and drabs try and introduce them into your language? Before you know it you will be sounding like a native. Rhymes and repetition are a good way for children to learn a language so perhaps it is not surprising that there are so many phrases that feature repetition. ‘Here and there’ is a common adverbial phrase using word pairs and ‘short and sweet’ is an example of an adjectival phrase. These English phrases do not work the other way round, so it is always ‘peace and quiet’, not ‘quiet and peace’. The phrase “I do not want to be the life and soul of the party, but I will just grin and bear it till the party is finished” uses two common noun phrases and a common verb phrase. You may also come across short phrases with two words linked by an article or a conjunction: For example “I want some peace and quiet”. You may also come across word pairs where both words have meaning when they stand alone, but when they come together it gives greater meaning for instance: “They were a dream team the year they won the double.” Another assonating compound, one more familiar to EF English Live students, is the word ‘ ping pong’ which is another word for table tennis.’ Zig zag’,’ wishy washy’, ‘ see saw’, and ‘ mish mash’ are more fun sounding common assonating compounds. It is an example of an assonating compound: two words with the same consonant sound. ‘ Dilly dally’ is another fun sounding verb made famous by the musical hall artist Marie Lloyd: it means to delay or move slowly. With most of these words the first word gives a clue to the meaning which the second word reinforces: for instance ‘lovey’ from ‘love’, and ‘dovey’ from ‘dove’ (a bird that symbolises love) combine to mean an extravagant show of affection.Įxamples of more serious rhyming word pairs are ‘ nitty gritty‘ ( as in “let’s get down to the nitty gritty” or ‘the fundamentals’) and ‘ wheeler dealer’ (as in “he’s a bit of a wheeler dealer”, meaning someone who likes buying and selling for his own advantage). Other fun sounding examples of rhyming compounds are: ‘ hurly burly’, ‘ super duper’, ‘ itty bitty’, ‘ razzle-dazzle’, ‘ bees knees’, and ‘ lovey dovey’. ![]() For example: “My house is all topsy turvy, everything is all over the place”, or, ”Sorry everything is so higgledy piggledy, I will tidy up later”. The mix of same and difference may give a slight clue as to their meaning, for all of them mean the same thing – untidy, upside down, confused, all over the place. ![]()
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