*DO YOU KNOW?*
That there is nothing like:
••My brother has a k-leg

✅ It should be My brother is knock-kneeled

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••• Wonders will never end?

✅You should say: Wonders will never cease

This expression is used when one experiences *a pleasant surprise or finds pleasure at something

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•••Please come again, I can't hear you clearly?

✅What you should say is:
Pardon! Or please say that again, I can't hear you clearly

You can only ask someone to come again after the first visit or to pay subsequent visit as in:

Thanks for your patronage, please do come again

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•••See, tell your people to stop flashing me?

✅It should be:
See, tell your people to stop beeping me

Please note
You can only flash a phone when it is broken or not functioning right

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•••My phone got spoilt in the rain last night?

•• Visible objects that are known as concrete nouns don't get spoilt, rather they are broken or out of order

✅ The correct version of the sentence is:
My phone got broken by the rain OR was out of order as a result of the rain
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•••I am busy presently?

- Here, the speaker's intention is to inform us that he is busy at the time this expression is made. What is acceptable is *at present* or *at the moment* and not *presently *

✅ The correct version of the sentence is:
I am busy at the moment/I am busy at present

Please note:
•••Presently means soon or in a moment. To use presently in a sentence you say:

I shall be with you presently/in a moment

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Please don't stop learning


Learn the language. A language is what its native speakers say not what someone thinks they ought to be

Do not say:
_My dad gave me a cheque of #15,000 this morning_

*Why?* - The preposition that collocates with cheque here is "for" and not "of". Hence, the correct thing to say is:

My dad gave me a cheque for #15,000 this morning

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Do not say:
Time is against us

*Why?* - Such sentence doesn't exist in English. It is quite un-English.
Hence, the above sentence should be:

We haven't got much time
Or:
Time is running out

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Do not say:
The man died of depression on the long run.

*Why?* - The expression is wrong because of the use of a wrong preposition *on* The right preposition to be used is *in*

You had rather say:
In the long run, the man died of depression


Do not say:
I do not like to own anybody

*Why?* - Both owe and owe are confused verbs.

OWN is used when talking about something that belongs to you and is used mainly after possessive pronouns like 'my', 'hid', 'our', etc.
While OWE is used to describe a situation in which you have an obligation to pay for something already received from someone.

Hence, the above sentence should read:
I do not like to owe anybody

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Do not say:
My sister and her friend are now in good terms with each other

*Why?* - The wrong preposition has been used here. Therefore, the above sentence should take this correct form:

My sister and her friends are on good terms with each other

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Do not say:
Our company has no affinity to any networking company

*Why?* - I will like to write out the two main meanings of Affinity here in order for us to have a better understanding of why it is said to be used wrongly in the above statement.

Affinity means:

�a close similarity between two things especially because of the characteristics they share OR

� a strong feeling that you like and understand someone because you share the same ideas or interest

When used to mean any of these two, affinity is never followed by to but by "for/between/with" as in:

✅ I feel strong affinity for the homeless children
✅ There is an obvious affinity between the two companies_
✅ Knowing who you are has no affinity with being educated

Therefore, for correctness, the above sentence should be reconstructed as:

Our company has no affinity with any networking company

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Do not say: Let me not lie you, I am hearing this for the first time

*Why?* - ​​there is an omission of the preposition to after lie and then hearing is wrongly used. It should be:
Let me not lie to you/To be candid with you, I just heard this for the first time; OR this is my first time of hearing this

••In this second expression, hearing has become a verbal noun (something) and not a verb (action)

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