Accurate English With Faizan

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➡️ She is gifted with an ardent imagination.

Wish

❌ I wish I am
✅ I wish I were

❌ I wish I can
✅ I wish I could

❌ I wish I have
✅ I wish I had

❌ I wish I know
✅ I wish I knew

❌ I wish it is
✅ I wish it were

❌ I wish you are
✅ I wish you were

❌ I wish you will
✅ I wish you would

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➡️...and she screamed so piercingly that it set everyone's ears tingling

Canonical novels like 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 should be free of typos!

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Source: Reader's Digest

Source: Reader's digest

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➡️...she chattered incessantly all day

Writing tip from the legend

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➡️debilitating features

[debilitating = causing serious impairment of strength or ability to function]

//debilitating pain
//a debilitating fear of public speaking
//a debilitating illness

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➡️ The vacation provided a much-needed respite to the exhausted lawyer with no clients to vex him with their conundrums.

[ conundrum = an intricate and difficult problem]

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➡️ These words strike a faint, elusive chord in my memory.

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➡️ endless and intricate technicalities
➡️ fallen into the convenient oblivion of the waste-basket
➡️ extraordinarily subtle and penetrating analysis

Please review your write-ups thoroughly before you hit Publish.

To make sure that your work is error-free, proofread it at least one day after you have written it. Also, reading aloud will help you figure out anything that is amiss.

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➡️ ...your logic seems to walk on crutches

When you work as an editor, no typo can go unnoticed...

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➡️ I have an altogether different take on the matter.

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➡️ ...bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life

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➡️ My heart was heavy with indecision as I weighed the pros and cons of this undertaking.

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➡️ I felt an irresistible desire to express my views on the subject.

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➡️ ...filled with an exaggerated sense of personal righteousness

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➡️ political manoeuvre
➡️ uncompromising adherence
➡️ resolute allegiance

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➡️ ...and this double loss left a never-healed scar on his life.

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➡️ easy-going to the point of lethargy
➡️ treated the idea with lofty scorn
➡️ versed in the arts of exciting tumult and sedition
➡️ endowed with undreamed-of powers

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➡️ pinpoint precision

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➡️ I am an amature at what you are pro at.

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➡️ debauch; debouch. These words are liable to confusion.

Debauch /di-bawch/, the more prevalent word, means “to defile; to seduce away from virtue; to corrupt.” E.g.: “More pervert than poet, this character debauches the cycle boy’s sister, forcing her into sadomasochistic acts with paying clients, some merely disgusting, others so arcane I couldn’t tell what was behind them.”

The corresponding noun is debauchery.

Debouch /di-boosh/ = to emerge or cause to emerge; to come out into open ground—e.g.:
• “A group of humpback whales began routinely to feed near the bay’s mouth in 1991—as many as 19 in a winter—in the food-rich plume of water debouching from the bay, fed by runoff from the bay watershed.”

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➡️ Well, now everyone is selling muffins. Should we jump on the bandwagon and do it, too?

[If you jump on the bandwagon, you go along with whatever the latest trend is, whether that’s fashion, a popular item, a certain hobby or something else.]