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•Scale through❎
•Sail through✅

•Greatful❎
•Grateful✅

•Raining season❎
•Rainy season✅

•Without mixing words❎
•Without mincing words✅

•One faithful day❎
•One fateful day✅

•Enemity❎
•Enmity✅

Finally, please, don't CRACK❎ your brain. No matter what your brain does or does not contain, your mother still loves you; Jesus does too. Just RACK✅your brain, please.🥰

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•He is an European.❎
•He is a European.✅

"An" is used before words that start with vowel SOUNDS.

"A" is used before words that start with consonant SOUNDS.

Although, European (Europe) begins with the vowel LETTER "e", it does not start with a vowel sound or pronunciation. The "e" sounds like the consonant sound /j/.

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I can recite the poem offheart.❎❎

I can recite the poem offhead.❎❎

I can recite the poem by heart.✅✅

Offheart is not a word.

Offhead is also not a word.

Offhand: A remark or comment made without prior preparation. Also, rude or nonchalant in manner.

Synonyms: impromptu, spontaneous, on the spur of the moment, rude...etc.

"By heart" means from memory. It is used to refer to something a person has memorised or knows very well.

By heart synonyms: from memory, word-perfect, verbatim, word for word...etc.

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Do you know that the Queen's English will now be called the King's English?

Queen's English: A form of English language that is considered the standard and correct one. When the ruling monarch is male, it is typically called "the King's English".

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•He is godsent to me.✅
Godsent: sent by God or as if by God

•He is a godsend to me.✅
Godsend: very helpful or valuable event, person, or article.

•Make haste while the sun shines.❎
•Make hay while the sun shines.✅

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•She is looking for my trouble.❎
•She is troubling me.✅

•She has a running nose.❎
•She has a runny nose.✅

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•Deep your hand in the water to check how hot it is.❌❌

•Dip your hand in the water to check how hot it is.✅✅

Deep: having a great distance from the top or surface, usually extending downward.

Dip: to put something briefly into something (usually a liquid).

NOTE: There are many other meanings, and uses of "deep" and "dip".

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•He was at his grandfather's wake keep.❎❎

•He was at his grandfather's wake keeping.❎❎

• He was at his grandfather's wake.✅✅

A wake is a vigil or watch usually held before a funeral.

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•Mr Bako thought me History in school.❎
•Mr Bako taught me History in school.✅

Taught is the past tense of the verb "to teach". It means to impart knowledge.

Thought is the past tense of the verb "to think." It means to have an idea or an opinion in mind about something or somebody. It also means to call something or somebody to mind.

I thought you heard him when he said, "I taught her History in school".

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•Side comment❎❎

•Snide comment/remark✅✅

They made snide remarks about each other.

A snide comment/remark is one that criticises in an unkind and often indirect way.

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