English dictation exercises

For example: planning a shared kitchen

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Foreign Words in English: How Loanwords Work

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Forming Adverbs from Adjectives: Rules and Word Position

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Furthermore or Moreover: Adding Connected Points

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Future perfect or continuous: Choose the right form

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Future plans

You have decided to travel, bought the ticket, and agreed to meet a friend. Does English describe all three parts of that plan in the same way?

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Future predictions

Use be going to when present evidence shows what will happen next, and use will when you share a personal belief or guess about the future.

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Gerunds and infinitives with stop, try, remember and need

If you stop working and stop to work, have you ended the job or paused another activity so you can begin it?

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Gerunds: When to Use -ing

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Get away with

A person may break a rule without punishment, or use one coat of paint when two would be better. In both cases, they may get away with it.

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Get back to

If you cannot answer now, you can get back to a person later. When the interruption ends, you can get back to the task.

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Get by

When you have less money, equipment or language than you would like but still manage, you get by.

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Get out of something

An excuse may help someone get out of a meeting, while a changed routine may help them get out of a bad habit.

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Get over

After an illness, disappointment or shock, feeling like yourself again can take time. That process is getting over it.

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Get round to

The task has stayed on your list for weeks. When you finally do it, you get round to it.

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Get together

Friends get together for lunch, while two people who get together may also be starting a relationship. Context prevents awkward misunderstandings.

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Getting the Repair Café Ready: Group Words

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Give away

A shop can give away samples, while your smile can give away a secret. The same phrasal verb changes meaning with its object and situation.

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Go down

Prices can go down, a website can go down, and the sun goes down every evening. The subject tells you what kind of change happened.

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Go off

An alarm goes off when it starts making noise, but a light goes off when it stops working. The subject reverses what the same words seem to mean.

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Group discussion skills: speak clearly in meetings

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Grow apart

Two people can still care about each other yet slowly share less of their lives. Grow apart names that gradual distance without blaming either person.

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Hand in

Finishing an assignment is not the final step. You still have to hand it in so the responsible person officially receives it.

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Has or have: choose the right verb

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