Start with short recordings, then work through longer phrases. Listen once for the situation and again for the words.
Use an adverb to add information about an action, description, or another adverb. Put many manner adverbs after the verb or its object, place frequency adverbs before the main verb but after be, and place degree adverbs before the word they strengthen.
Put very, quite, and too before an adjective or adverb: very useful, quite slowly, too late. Put enough after an adjective or adverb: useful enough, slowly enough. Use too when the amount creates a problem; use enough when the amount meets a need.
Advice is a noun for helpful suggestions; advise is the verb for giving them. In everyday English, ask for some advice or a piece of advice, never an advice.
Use all are present for a plural group, such as all the students. Use all is present when all means everything as one whole or an uncountable amount, such as all the information.
Use all ready when every person or thing is prepared. Use already when something has happened, is finished, or is true earlier than expected or earlier than a stated time.
Use all for a whole group or amount, both for two together, either for one of two possible choices, and neither when both choices are excluded.
Use all for a complete group or amount, every before a singular countable noun when you mean each member, and whole for one complete thing or period, usually with the, a, or a possessive.
Use already for an earlier-than-expected completed action, still for a continuing situation, yet for an expected action that has not happened, and no longer for a situation that has stopped.
Use however for a contrast across sentences, yet to join two equal clauses, and although or though before a contrast clause. Use on the other hand for two sides of a comparison and except for an exclusion.
Use among for a position or action within a group. Use between for a relationship involving distinct items, including more than two when you name or treat them separately.
Animal idioms are fixed expressions whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of the animal words. Use the surrounding situation to understand the intended idea.
Animal idioms usually describe a feeling, action, or situation through an animal image. Read the whole sentence before guessing. In "After moving abroad, I felt like a fish out of water," the new place tells you that the speaker felt uncomfortable and unfamiliar with the situation.