CEFR C2; focus: aspect shifts used for pragmatic effect, such as vividness, tact, irritation, provisionality, distancing, and reassurance.
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Verb Patterns with Reporting Verbs Exercise
CEFR B2; focus: verb patterns with reporting verbs.
Farther vs. further: How to choose the right word
Learn when farther points to measurable physical distance, when further means additional, and why further can also describe distance.
What “hold your tongue” means, and where it comes from
“Hold your tongue” means stay quiet or stop speaking. Its older image of physically restraining the tongue helps explain the idiom.
Anaphora in Rhetoric Exercise
CEFR C2; focus: rhetorical anaphora, especially repetition at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences, contrasted with related but distinct forms of repetition and reference.