Its or it's: a simple possession and contraction guide
Use its before a noun when something belongs to it. Use it's only when you can expand it to it is or it has.
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Job-search English: write clear searches and follow-up messages
Search with a job title, useful skill, location, and work condition when relevant. Read the vacancy for required and preferred skills, then write a short message that names the role and gives evidence from your experience.
John and I or John and me?
Choose John and I for a subject. Choose John and me for an object or after a preposition. Decide what the whole paired phrase does before you choose the pronoun.
Keep your eyes peeled: meaning and use in English
Keep your eyes peeled means watch carefully and stay alert for something you expect to see. It is usually followed by for and the thing or person to look for.
Kick the bucket: meaning, tone, and careful use
Kick the bucket means die. It has a casual, joking tone, so use it with care. In a condolence message, a news report, a medical setting, or a conversation with family members, say died or passed away if that is the wording the family uses.
Learn English online: choose a routine you can keep
Choose a small weekly plan with separate time for input, use, and review. For example, listen to a short recording on one day, write a reply on another day, and return to useful words at the end of the week.
Learn English pronunciation: a clear B1 practice method
To improve English pronunciation, practice one feature at a time. Listen to a short model, copy it aloud, record yourself, then use the feature in a new sentence.
Lie down or lay down: choose the correct verb
Use lie down when you rest in a horizontal position and no object receives the action. Use lay down when you put an object somewhere. The present forms are lie and lay, but the past forms are lay and laid.
Like and such as: give examples clearly
Use such as to introduce actual examples of a category. Use like to say that one thing is similar to another. In formal or careful writing, choose such as when you are listing examples.
Linking verbs: connect a subject to information
A linking verb connects the subject to a description or identity. In The room feels cold, feels links room with cold.
Linking words for addition and examples
Use also, too, or as well for an extra point in an ordinary sentence. Use in addition or furthermore to link a new sentence to the previous idea. Use for example before a complete example and such as before example nouns.
Linking words for cause, result, and purpose
Use because, since, or because of to give a cause. Use so, therefore, or as a result to give a result. Use to, in order to, or so that to show purpose. The grammar after the linker matters as much as its meaning.