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Phrasal verbs

Stock up on: buy enough for later

Describe an advance supply purchase and keep the item after on.

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Grammar

Some advice, not an advice

Use advice and information naturally, without adding an or a plural s.

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Phrasal verbs

Lock up: make the building secure before you leave

Distinguish closing from locking, then use lock it up in a departure reminder.

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Grammar

Who called Mia? Or who did Mia call?

Find the missing person’s role before choosing the question form.

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Phrasal verbs

Marked down: understand the lower price

Describe a price reduction and distinguish the new price from the amount taken off.

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Grammar

By or until: finish by four, stay until five

Separate a completion deadline from a situation that continues.

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Phrasal verbs

Top up a card: add more credit

Explain adding prepaid funds, then use top it up for a card you have already named.

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Grammar

Didn’t go, not didn’t went: past negatives

Say what did not happen yesterday without putting the main verb into the past twice.

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Phrasal verbs

Log in: access an account you already have

Distinguish accessing an existing account from creating a new one.

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Grammar

Zero conditional: explain a regular result

Use if with present-simple clauses to describe a repeatable response.

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Phrasal verbs

Back up your files: make an extra copy

Learn the computer meaning of back up and the word order in back them up.

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Nina’s notebook: show who owns it

Put a person’s name first and add apostrophe + s to name the owner.

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