Indianisms are certain grammatical errors in English language that are very common in India .
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Descripción: phrasal verbs and collocations
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Descripción: A COMPLETE LIST OF IDIOMS FOR FCE, VERY USEFUL FOR SPEAKING AND WRITING
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It is harder to understand spoken English than written English. There are two reasons for this:
Speech is continuous. There are no pauses between words, so when you don’t understand something, you don’t know if it’s one word, two words, or maybe par
Descripción: Idioms
Idioms
A simple note as a reference for students learning these English Expressions.Descripción completa
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Very often while communicating with people who has English as a second language background we noticed that people are making grammatical mistakes unknowingly. Some time it's the use of past tense where as they mean to say something about present tens
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Daisy took her face in her hands as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk . (bahasa sumber)
Daisy menangkup mukanya denga jari-jarinya seolah-olah hendak merasakan bentuknya yang lawa manakala pandangannya beransur-ansur menyoroti kegelapan senja. (bahasa sasaran)
While idioms are more common in spoken language, they frequently show up in books and writing. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby says that Daisy’s “voice is full of money.” He doesn’t mean that she has money inside her mouth. Instead, he means it’s
obvious to anyone who hears her speak that she’s rich. The use of this idiom adds a playful element to the conversation. It’s much more interesting and uncommon to hear that someone’s voice is made of money than to hear that someone is wealthy. By using a figure of speech, the dialogue in the book can also sound more like everyday conversation.
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Nick Carraway uses the common idiom “I’ve got my hands full” in this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This is a simple way of saying that he’s too busy. He’s trying to cut Gatsby off, who is offering him a shady business deal. Though Carraway needs the extra money, he bluffs by saying he has no time so that he doesn’t get mixed up in a bad business deal. In the book The great Gatsby Fitzgerald uses idioms to display an idea or reasoning in a different way. Nick says to Gatsby "I've got my hands full" (Fitzgerald, 83). Nick had nothing actually in his hands when he said this, he was just explaining to Gatsby that he was unable to take on anymore work. Instead of just saying that he was unable to do what Gatsby offered, which was work, he used an idiom to display his situation. Another idiom used in The great Gatsby is "You can hold your tongue..." (Fitzgerald, 77). This is speaking about Daisy and how she does not drink so she is more capable of not talking out of context or saying something wrong. Also, using this shows that she would be more sensible during the events. The use of idioms throughout The great Gatsby improve the story by putting more more descriptions and quality into the story.
1. Fill a gas tank with fuel, as in As soon as we tank up the car we can leave. [First half of 1900s] 2. Drink to the point of intoxication. F. Scott Fitzgerald used this expression in The Great Gatsby (1926): "I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon." This expression often is put in the passive, meaning "be or become intoxicated," as in My roommate really got tanked up last night. [Slang; c. 1900]
