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📖📖Every language has its own idioms and expressions and the English language has plenty of phrases that are useful to learn. Idioms are words or phrases that aren’t meant to be taken literally and usually have a cultural meaning behind them. Most of the English idioms you hear are offering advice but also contain some underlying principles and values. Learning English idioms and expressions can take some time but there are some of them that are more popular than others that will come in handy if you know them. When you learn English idioms and phrases you will sound more confident especially when you speak with native English speakers. If you can’t understand idioms you will not be able to understand the context. That is why we have gathered some of the most common English idioms and phrases so you will understand the true meaning.

👉🏿👉🏿Now let us learn what is the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions.
1. ‘The best of both worlds’ – means you can enjoy two different opportunities at the same time.
“By working part-time and looking after her kids two days a week she managed to get the best of both worlds.”

2. ‘Speak of the devil’ – this means that the person you’re just talking about actually appears at that moment.
“Hi Tom, speak of the devil, I was just telling Sara about your new car.”

3. ‘See eye to eye’ – this means agreeing with someone.
“They finally saw eye to eye on the business deal.”

4. ‘Once in a blue moon' – an event that happens infrequently.

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“I only go to the cinema once in a blue moon.”

Let us learn some of the basic types of Figure of Speech.😊
✍🏻There is a wide range of different types of figures of speech that are used in our daily communication. Let us take a look at some of the most popular ones that are used extensively:

✔️✔️Personification
👉🏼👉🏼Personification is a figure of speech that attributes human nature or human qualities to abstract or inanimate objects. For example, we often use the phrases like the howling wind, dancing leaves, time flies, etc. Some examples of personification in a sentence are:
T 👉🏼he opportunity knocked at his door
👉🏼The plants in her house silently begged to be watered

✔️✔️Metaphor
👉🏼👉🏼A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used for implying a comparison between two things that have something in common but are in general different from each other. Some examples of the usage of metaphors in a sentence is as follows:
👉🏼It is raining cats and dogs
👉🏼He is the star of our class

✔️✔️Simile
👉🏼👉🏼A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things that are different from each other but have similar qualities. These are generally formed through the usage of the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. Some examples of similes in a sentence include:
👉🏼He is as brave as a lion
👉🏼Her expression was as cold as ice

✔️✔️Alliteration
👉🏼👉🏼Alliteration is a type of figure of speech in which a sentence consists of a series of words that have the same consonant sound at the beginning. Some popular examples of alliteration in a sentence include:
👉🏼She sells seashells on the seashore
👉🏼A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies

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Gerunds and Infinitives
Gerunds and infinitives are sometimes referred to as verb complements. .
✔️What are Gerunds?
A gerund is a verb in its ing (present participle) form that functions as a noun that names an activity rather than a person or thing. Any action verb can be made into a gerund.

✔️Verbing (Present Participle)
Add -ing to most verbs.

For verbs that end in e, remove the e and add ing.

For verbs that end in ie, change the ie to y and add ing.

For a verb whose last syllable is written with a consonant-vowel-consonant and is stressed, double the last letter before adding ing.

Gerund Examples
Gerunds can appear at the beginning of a sentence when used as a subject:
Jogging is a hobby of mine.
Gerunds can act as an object following the verb:
Daniel quit smoking a year ago.
Gerunds can serve as an object after a preposition:
I look forward to helping you paint the house.

✔️What are Infinitives?
An infinitive is a verb form that acts as other parts of speech in a sentence. It is formed with to + base form of the verb. Ex: to buy, to work.

✔️Infinitive Examples
Infinitives can be used as:
an object following the verb:
Jim always forgets to eat
a subject at the beginning of a sentence:
To travel around the world requires a lot of time and money.
an adverb modifying a verb:
You promised to buy me a diamond ring.
an adjective modifying a noun:
Tara has the ability to succeed.


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Let's make fun learning with this Antonym Exercise.
GUESS my OPPOSITE!
1. Agree → _____________
2. ___________ → intolerant
3. Lead → _____________
4. boy → _____________
5. above → _____________

✔️Antonyms are words that have to contrast, or the opposite, meanings. Like so much of the English language, “antonym” is rooted in the Greek language. The Greek word anti means opposite, while onym means name. Opposite name – that makes sense!

✔️You may be interested to know that there are three different kinds of antonyms. Let’s take a look at each one:
👉Complementary: Complementary antonyms have no middle ground.
Example:
boy — girl
👉Relational: These are similar to complementary antonyms, except that both must exist for them to be antonyms of each other.
Check out this example:
above — below
✔️Add a Prefix to Create an Antonym
✔️Sometimes, you don’t need to search for another word entirely. It’s possible to create an antonym simply by adding a prefix to the word.
👉Example of antonyms created by adding the prefix dis- :
Check out this example:
Agree → disagree
👉Adding the prefix in- can make the following opposites:
Check out this example:
Tolerant → intolerant
👉Using the prefix mis- create antonyms like:
Check out this example:
Behave → misbehave

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Let us learn how to differentiate between the English homophones: He's or His.

✔️Lets start with He's:

👉🏿 'He's' is only a contraction of he is or he was...or he has.
👉🏿 So, if you are not sure if it's his or he is, just try to replace he's with he is/was or he has.

☑️Here are examples:
He's only a small boy. ...he is
He's left the stage. ...he has

👉🏿He's is used to define the state in which someone is.
He's in a really bad mood.
He's having a mood swing.

👉🏿Or it can be used when stating the present or past location of the person in question.
He's exited the store.
He's leaving the website. (He's can be used when stating the place the person was on. In this case, it was the Internet.)

✔️Let us continue with His.

👉🏿His is a possessive adjective used to define the belongings of a certain individual.
This is his lunch box.
That's his crayon.

👉🏿Fun fact:
His is used in titles

☑️For example:
His Majesty.

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