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The words especially and specially have just a hair’s breadth of difference between them. Both can be used to mean “particularly.” Especially tends to be more formal, while specially tends to be more informal: … But our words have finer points to them that are worthy of being understood. 1 especially and specially Especially and specially can often both be used with the […]
1- Meaning and Use Actual means ‘real’; actually means ‘really’ or ‘in fact’. They are used to make things clearer, more precise or more definite. It’s over 100 kilos. Let me look. Yes, the actual weight is 108 kilos. I’ve got a new job. Actually, they’ve made me the sales manager. They often introduce surprising […]
About + infinitive (with to) means ‘going to very soon’; ‘just going to’.Don’t go out now – we’re about to have lunch.I was about to go to bed when the telephone rang.Not about tocan mean ‘unwilling to’.I’m not about to pay 100 dollars for that dress.about to• see adverb position 5: emphasizing adverbs For more […]
meanings and use It is difficult to learn to use prepositions correctly in a foreign language. Most English prepositions have several different functions (for instance, one well- known dictionary lists eighteen main uses of at), and these may correspond to several different prepositions in another language. At the same time, different prepositions can have very […]