commonly used idiomatic expressions

... wears __________ TEST 9:Direction: Supply a correct preposition into the given space. 3 IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS TEST 1: Complete the following sentences with one appropriate word. Example: He ... Here comes a bus. Before you _______________, ask the driver if he stops near the library. 20. Tom used to he a professional football player, hut he had to _______________ (it) because of a knee ... __________ her mother’s lap. 9. Shall I make the cheque (19) __________ (20) __________ you? 10. She accused her husband of setting the children ____________ her. TEST 8:Direction: Fill in the blank with...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2013, 01:26

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 15:20

... one to do something. This expression is used to communicate someone’s typical or characteristic behavior. Notice that this expression is most commonly used in the negative. 3. To throw in the ... since they were kids and I’m still green. But LE SS ON 28 EASY AMERI C AN IDIOMS Hundreds of idiomatic expressions to give you an edge in English! by Rachel Varra Edited by Christopher Warnasch ... greatly resemble one of their parents in personality or behavior. 5. You don’t say. An expression used to show mild surprise, like saying “really?”This can also be a sarcastic expression, to show that...

Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2014, 08:20

... becoming on my girlfriend. (no) bed of roses - a situation that is happy and comfortable (usually used in the negative) The new job was very difficult and certainly no bed of roses. (have a) ... feels bad to feel worse, to make a bad situation worse Our boss added insult to injury when she refused to let us use the telephone and computers during lunch. add up - to total up to a certain ... was the black sheep of the family and nobody liked him. blast off - to shoot into the sky (used for a rocket) The rocket blasted off at noon. blaze a trail (in something) - to create...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2014, 20:36

... observation that literally used expres- sions typically exhibit cohesive ties with the sur- rounding discourse, while idiomatic expressions do not. Hence idiomatic expressions can be de- tected ... form expressions as this is pre- cisely the set of expressions that would be classi- fied as idiomatic by the unsupervised CForm clas- sifier (Cook et al. (2007), Fazly et al. (To appear)). While expressions ... 2007; Katz and Giesbrecht, 2006), we focused mainly on expressions of the form V+NP or V+PP as this is a fairly large group and many of these expressions can be used literally as well, making them...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... I developed this dictionary of commonly used Spanish expressions that are often difficult to find in standard dictionaries. My sources have been as diverse as the expressions themselves: Nobel Prize–winning ... understanding of Spanish. The dic- tionary contains a broad collection of over 4,000 commonly used idiomatic and colloquial expressions in Spanish and almost 8,000 English translations. Particular care ... del toro y caer en el ~) arriba 9 Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction vii Spanish-English Idiomatic Dictionary 1 English-Spanish Dictionary and Index 209 v For more information about this...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 13:37

... 140° 10° 20° 0500 Kilometres 32 31 30 29 28 27 25 26 1 6 1 9 22 15 24 23 21 17 18 14 13 1-12 20 WA NT QLD Clone These trees were propagated by cuttings. Terms Commonly Used in Tree Improvement Khongsak Pinyopusarerk CSIRO/Ensis-Genetics Canberra, Australia Genotype ã ... of interbreeding individuals. No degree of relationship is assumed. ã The term Stand is often used synonymously. ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... gic logical (adj) /'lɔdʤikəl/ hợp lý, hợp logic 3000 English Commonly Used words 29 TVN Center 5 th Floor 292 Tay Son, Đong Đa, Ha Noi Tel: (84 4) ... confuse (v) làm lộn xộn, xáo trộn confusing (adj) /kən'fju:ziη/ khó hiểu, gây bối rối confused (adj) /kən'fju:zd/ bối rối, lúng túng, ngượng confusion (n) /kən'fju:ʒn/ sự lộn...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2014, 09:50