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Vocabulary

Vocabulary
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'Winnie-the-Pooh Welcome to EnglishClub Vocabulary! If you don't find what you want here, feel free to ask a question at our Vocabulary Help forum. What is Vocabulary? This page explains what vocabulary - or vocab - is and why it is important for learners of English. Word of the Day Learn something new every day! Parts of Speech | Topic Vocab | Reference | More Parts of speech and vocab rules Verbs Improve your vocab with MyEC! The MyEnglishClub English-only chat room is a fantastic place to pick up English vocabulary. Nouns Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Prepositions Short List (at, by, concerning) Prepositions List - full list with example sentences English Prepositions List - downloadable ebook (free) Interjections Interjections List (oh! Prefixes (non-, inter-, post-) Suffixes (-ation, -al, -ize) WH Question Words (WHo, WHat, HoW) Topic vocabulary Time The World Word Lists

Games for Learning English, Vocabulary, Grammar Games, Activities, ESL learnenglishlikeme I also want to share with you the complete list of phrasal verbs I worked with during the last 10 days. If you want to know more about the strategy I used, you can also read the next post … How you can learn phrasal verbs easily Remember that you can find an extensive summary of my Phrasal verbs learning process in the post … How to learn phrasal verbs easily – Part 2 The Complete List Of Phrasal Verbs… I chose these 50 phrasal verbs at random: As you can see I didn’t work with all the different meanings that every phrasal verb have. I think that the most important is: To internalize as many phrasal verbs as possible. That being said, you don’t have to stress if you don’t know a lot of phrasal verbs. What You Have To Do… It’s now your turn to use this strategy to learn phrasal verbs. You can use the same complete list of phrasal verbs I list in this post or you can choose others phrasal verbs. And Remember… – Are you going to work your phrasal verbs like me?

20 words that once meant something very different Words change meaning over time in ways that might surprise you. We sometimes notice words changing meaning under our noses (e.g., unique coming to mean “very unusual” rather than “one of a kind”) — and it can be disconcerting. How in the world are we all going to communicate effectively if we allow words to shift in meaning like that? The good news: History tells us that we’ll be fine. Words have been changing meaning — sometimes radically — as long as there have been words and speakers to speak them. Here is just a small sampling of words you may not have realized didn’t always mean what they mean today. Nice: This word used to mean “silly, foolish, simple.” We’re human. Watch Anne Curzan’s TED Talk to find out what makes a word “real”.

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