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Lesson 648
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❇️ Vocabulary Building👍🏽🆕
💠 Collocate
If two words “collocate”, it means they are often used together in a way that sounds correct. For example, “pay attention”✅ “make a mistake”✅ but not “produce attention” ❌or “do a mistake” ❌.
The verb “pay” collocates with “attention”, but not the verb “produce”. We “make” a mistake, but we don’t “do” a mistake.
🍀 Check Lesson 613–615 for our full discussion of collocation.
❇ Useful Expressions/Idioms 🆔
💠 tip of the iceberg
This idiom describes “a small, noticeable part of a problem, the total size of which is really much greater” or “a small and known part of something much larger and unknown”.
“This idiom comes from the fact that only the tip of an iceberg can be seen and the rest of the iceberg, which is much larger, is underneath the water and cannot be seen. Early 20th-century uses of the idiom are believed to have been influenced by the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic on 15 April 1912 after it struck an iceberg.” The idiom is used to describe bad situations.
Example
1. The dismissal of a half of the workers is only a tip of the iceberg. ✅
❇ Confusing/Misused words or expressions/Misspelt words 🤔❌
💠 Change or balance*?
Look at the following sentences carefully and determine whether they mean the same.
1. You gave me GH₵50. It’s left with your balance of GH₵40.
2. You gave me GH₵50. It’s left with your change of GH₵40.
To be continued…
❇ Grammar & Mechanics📚
💠 Use of double verbs and a noun (phrase)
When we write or speak, we sometimes “express or create emphasis” by choosing two synonymous verbs (as shown here) followed by a single noun. Apart from emphasis, we also create contrast by using two opposite verbs at the same time. For example, “We either ‘make or break’ rules”. For conciseness and sentence effectiveness, the style of using two synonymous verbs at the same time is usually not encouraged in writing—choosing one verb is more preferred to avoid unnecessary repetition. So, you would rather write: “we express emphasis” or “we create emphasis”, instead of “we express or create emphasis” (both verbs are doing the same work here).
However, if you must use two verbs to precede a noun at all cost, you must make sure both verbs collocate (match with) with the noun phrase that follows.
Example
1. We can make or develop a plan. ✅
2. We can express or showcase our products. ❌
3. We can showcase our products. ✅
In the first sentence, both verbs “make” and “develop” collocate with the noun phrase “a plan”. However, in the second sentence, it is only the second verb “showcase” which collocates with the noun phrase “our products”. The first verb “express” does not match with “our products”. This makes the sentence faulty. Thus, it is advisable to use only the verb that matches with the noun as shown in the third sentence.
To be continued…
❇ Communication (speaking & writing) Tip ✅
💠 Phone Etiquettes (Continued)
⚠️ Disclaimer: These phone etiquettes are recommendations, not rules, and they may not be applicable in all situations and for all people. Thus, their usage should always be contextually defined.🌻
7. If you enter the office of someone (a superior or a person you are meeting the first time) and the person is talking on phone, you need to excuse yourself (walk out). Unless the person insists that you stay, it is discourteous to sit through the call in a situation like that.
⛔️ Note: Our disclaimer issued earlier applies here.
To be continued…
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