1- Explain the meaning of this idiom: "Leave Someone High and Dry". Then, put it in a sentence.
2- Explain this proverb: "All things are difficult before they are easy". Then, give another proverb that has the same meaning (or close to it).
3- Can we use the simple present tesnse to talk about the future? How?
4- Explain the difference between "either" and "niether"/ "everyday" and "every day".
5- Answer this riddle: What clothing is always sad?
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1-LEAVE SOMEONE HIGH AND DRY MEANS LEAVING SOMENE HOPLESS WITHOUT GIVING HIM OR HER ANY KIND OF HELP
SENTENCE:WHEN YOU LET ME STUDY ALONE MATHEMATIQUE EVEN YOU KNOW ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT (THE NIGHT befor EXAM) YOU'RE LIVING ME HIGH AND DRY
2-all things are difficult befor they're easy means the biginning of every project (big or small) is not easy so we can loss some rissources as money power but with time we get familiar and use to it then it will be less difficult to achieve it
"to eat fish you have to clean it's shit"
3-yes because one of the area where we can use simple present is the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future
example: it's my task to study chimestry , i do it every single day .past ,present and future.
4-either for positive sense neither for negative
exple: i don't drive neither a taxi nor a bus
my dog is happy,..either mine
5-black one..lol
1- to leave someone helpless, unsupported.
this man was bothering me while I wan busy with my project, but he has just left me and high and dry.
2-this quote is for Thomas Fuller and it means that: we already have to be patient with learning or doing a business, firstly it is difficult but after it would be easy
"all things in moderation and moderation all things" it means in our life we should go step per step and choose the middle of things.
3- The Present tense shows a habitual or repeated action. so it is true, we can use the present.
4- either for choice, it is used to refer to each of two situations (I can go either by bus or plane)
neither is to preceding two alternatives that both did not happen or are not true (he knows neither English nor French).
5-clothing that is sad; dark one, like black
Hey there,
Good job, guys! Here are the answers:
1. Leave someone high and dry is to Abandon them without help.
2. It means that we should be patient with learning; with practice things become easier.
3. Yes, we use the simple present tense when talking about fixed facts that will happen in the future. http://dzspeakenglish.blogspot.com/2010/04/tip-simple-present-for-future-events.html
4. http://dzspeakenglish.blogspot.com/2010/05/using-either-and-neither.html
5. The answer is: blue jeans. ;-p
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