Search for a phrase or choose a level. The time filter describes the sample recording, not the whole lesson.
Use percent after a number: 40 percent, 40%, or a 40 percent discount. Use percentage for a proportion or rate: a small percentage of customers, the percentage of students who passed, or a percentage increase.
Use personal for something connected with one person. Use personnel for the employees or staff of an organization.
Useful phrasal verbs with call include call back (phone again), call off (cancel), call on (ask someone to speak), call for (need or ask for), call out (say loudly), and call in (ask someone to come and help).
Learn look phrases as complete units. Look after means take care of, look for means try to find, look forward to means wait happily for something, look into means investigate, and look up means find information.
Learn a phrasal verb as a complete phrase. Use the situation to choose its meaning, then check whether its object can move or must stay after the phrase.
A phrasal verb is a verb plus one or more short words that work together as one meaning. In look after, the phrase means take care of.
When a sentence gives both place and time, put the place expression before the time expression in the usual neutral order. Keep the main verb and any object together first: We left the keys on the desk after lunch.
Use plain for something simple, clear, undecorated, or for a broad area of flat land. Use plane for an aircraft or a flat surface in a technical context.
To poke means to make a small, quick touch or push, often with a finger or a pointed object. A poke is one such action.
For one owner, usually add apostrophe plus s: the student's notebook. For a regular plural owner ending in s, put the apostrophe after s: the students' notebooks. Use of when it sounds more natural or helps a reader follow a longer phrase: the door of the museum.
In British English, practice is usually the noun and practise is usually the verb. In American English, practice is used for both.
Use prefer for a general choice, as in I prefer tea to coffee. Use would prefer for a present or particular choice, as in I'd prefer to sit by the window. Prefer can be followed by a noun or an -ing form. Would prefer can be followed by a noun or to plus a base verb.