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  SAY vs TELL SAY ●      Focus on the thing . ●      Structure: say + something ●      Example: She said “hello”. TELL ●      Focus on the person who receives the information. ●      Structure: tell + someone + something ●      Example: She told me the truth. 👉 Key idea: tell almost always needs a person . LISTEN vs HEAR LISTEN ●      You do it actively . ●      Example: Listen to this song. I listen to music HEAR ●      It’s a physical perception. ●      Example: I can hear a noise. 👉 listen = active 👉 hear = automatic perception   Complete with listen or hear TRAVEL vs TRIP TRAVEL ●      The action of moving (transfer) from place to place. ●      Example: the travel was good (the transfer ...
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 the verb GET alone receive, buy, arrive, understand, become, bring. Get in idioms get rid (sbarazzarsi) - get on my nerves (infastidire), get ready (prepare); get used (abituarsi); get the hack (prendere su); get a move (darsi una mossa); get in touch (contact). Get in phrasal verbs Special use of get (far fare: far aggiustare, far controllare etc) far aggiustare (è la macchina che subisce quindi uso il particple- fixed) far controllare (il reparto della produzione deve attivamente controllare non è lui a subire il controllo quindi in inglese uso infinito) Ricorda: in italiano hai sempre l'infinito in inglese hai due possibilità participle or infinitive Get nel passive al posto di was/were

News Feb, 26

  "A growing number of people have figured out a trick to make AI tools tell you almost whatever they want. It's so easy a child could do it."                                                                                      .. taken from online news to figure out = to invent - able to find make ... tell = far sì che ti dica (in this case - tell )  - ever = qualsiasi: whatever qualsiasi cosa; whenever qualsiasi momento: wherever qualsiasi luogo etc... easy that a child could  = I can omit that because between that and could (verb) there is something in between

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Council officials and police were forced to step in   last year –   issuing   a closure order for the flat   banning  visitors. to step in : means to intervene - to act issuing : nice verb - to issue; a public office can issue a document, a school can issue a certificate banning : it in its -ing form, the verb is to ban to prohibit, here what's important is the structure it is equivalent to saying a flat closure order that bans visitors. "from the news in the Sun"