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Take off, take over and take up share one short verb but describe very different actions. Grouping them by idea makes the expressions easier to retrieve than learning a random list.
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A manager says your work is moving in the right direction, then identifies one weakness. Is the overall message positive or negative?
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Not everything unwanted can go to a charity shop. Which clothes are donated, repaired or sent for textile recycling?
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A traveller likes the idea of living at sea for a year, but the headline price does not cover everything. Which practical questions remain unanswered?
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A colleague says the receipts add up, but the explanation does not. The same two words describe two very different judgements.
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The speaker has remembered one sentence for years, but no longer understands it in the same way. What changed?
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A manager changes a policy after staff challenge it. She does not move backwards, but people say she backed down.
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A colleague backs you up, research backs up a claim, and software backs up a file. What changes when the object changes?
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A performance blows the audience away while a gust blows the programmes away. Emotion and wind create different meanings with the same form.
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