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Grammar Stop
Patterns, meanings of to get
get + direct object: obtain, receive, buy
I got my passport last week.
get + place expression: reach, arrive at a place
How are you getting home tonight?
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Around the World - Signs Translated Into English
Doctor's surgery, India:
Specialist in women and other diseases.
Restaurant, India:
Open seven days a week, and weekends too.
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Short Stories
A School Story, by M. R. James
The Idiots, by Joseph Conrad
The Music on the Hill, by Saki
Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker
Resumed Identity, by Ambrose Bierce
A Haunted House, by Virginia Woolf

Some Commonly Confused Words in English Language:
Perspicuous: expressing things clearly, with perspicacious: having ready understanding of things.
Complacent: smug and self-satisfied, with complaisant: willing to please.
Appraise: assess, with apprise: inform.
Discreet: careful not to attract attention or give offence, with discrete: separate, distinct.
Loose: unfasten or set free, with lose: cease to have, become unable to find.
Principal: first in order of importance, with principle: a basis of a system of thought or belief.
Affect: make a difference to, with effect: a result, bring about a result.
Loath: reluctant; unwilling, with loathe: dislike greatly.
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SHORT STORIES
The Dancing Partner, by Jerome K. Jerome
Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, by Stephen Crane
The Field Bazaar (Sherlock Holmes), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



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