Małgorzata Kaszak

Hey there! I’m a true nature lover. I go to the forest whenever I can. That’s why, inspired by my Sunday walk, I’d like to pick the word nature to analyse today. However, I’d love to give some thoughts to the word nature, which is NOT related to: „all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. inCzytaj dalej „What’s in your nature?”

Yesterday I told you about the first conditional. Today it’s time for brushing up the knowledge of the second conditional and the third conditional. We need would in both conditionals. THE SECOND CONDITIONAL / SPECULATING ABOUT THE PRESENT We use would to talk about something in the present which is impossible, because it is notCzytaj dalej „Unreal present and unreal past with WOULD”

Devastating news about the death of an actress, who played Polly in the Peaky Blinders, has saddened all her fans… However, one of the lines by Polly can be a great opportunity to brush up your knowledge of the first conditional. We use the first conditional to talk about things which might happen in theCzytaj dalej „the first conditional with Polly from the Peaky Blinders”

-proof The suffix -proof, used to create adjectives and verbs, adds to a word meaning: resistant to or immune to. The title word pandemic-proof can be used as a verb and as an adjective. The use of pandemic-proof as a verb is illustrated by the question: What will it take to pandemic-proof America? To useCzytaj dalej „(to) pandemic-proof / uodpornić na pandemię”

As a British national morning paper reports, the Queen’s sense of duty is undiminished (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/queen-resume-duties-prince-philip-death-undiminished-duty-funeral-956479). The verb diminish /dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/means ‚to reduce or be reduced in size or importance’. An example of a sentence illustrating the use of the word diminish is the follwing: I don’t want to diminish her achievements, but she did have aCzytaj dalej „Undiminished sense of duty / niesłabnące poczucie obowiązku”

To brave the cold In English, one word can function as two or more parts of speech. Let’s take ‘brave’ as an example of a word, which apparently, is used as an adjective and as a verb. As an adjective, it has been present in the English language since the late 15th century. However, asCzytaj dalej „Let’s bravely grab the occasion and focus on the word brave!”