Những từ gây nhầm lần trong Tiếng Anh - Phần 7 - Thấm Tâm Vy

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1. You use before to connect a time in the past with a more recent time in the past If you ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS – 07 are talking about what you did last Wednesday and you say that you met someone two after all, at last, finally, in the end, lastly, last of all days before, You use after all when you are mentioning an additional pointwhich confirms or you mean that you met them last Monday. supports what you have just said, - She said that, about six months before, she had gone to see an aunt - Thẹy did not expect heavy losses in the air; after all, they had superb aircraft. who lived in Stoneyvale. - They didn’t bother to tie me up. After all, there werefour, five, six of them there, - a woman he had first met twenty minutes before. mostly with handguns. You use for to say how long a period lasts in the past, present, or future. If you say You also use after all to say that something is the case or may be the case in spite of that you have been doing something for two days, you mean that you have spent the last what had previously been thought. two days doing it all the time or part of the time. - Could it be true, after all, that money dùi not bring happiness? - She sat down and remained absolutely still for nearly half an hour. - Perhaps it isn’t such a bad village after all. - He had disappeared for three weeks after that. Yoa do not use ‘after all’ to talk about what happens at the end of a long period. You - I will ruin us for several years. use at last, finally, in the end, or last of all. You also use for to say how much time passes without something happening. If you You use at last or finally to say that something happens after you have been waiting are speaking on Friday and you say that you have not done something for two days, you for it or expecting it for a long time. You can use at last at the end of a sentence. mean that the last time you did it was on Wednesday. - The storm that had threatened for so long broke at last. - Ỉ hadn't seen him for four years. Finally usually comes either at the beginning of a sentence or in front of a verb. - He couldn't bring himself to eat their food, and he hadn’t eaten for days. - After another search on the map they finally located it. You use since to say when a period started. If you are speaking on Friday and you say You also use finally to talk about an act or result that is last in a series of things. that you have been doing something since Wednesday, you mean that you have spent - Gorky lived in turn in Turkey, France, Norway, and finally Mexico. the last two days doing it. - Let’s come finally to the question ofpensions. - She had been a manager of Fairacre School since the reign of King Edward the You use in the end when you are talking about a situation that comes about after a long Seventh. time or after a long process. - She has been working with the group since it began. - Perhaps the police got him in the end, ’ Sam said. - Brazil is to have itsfirst civilian president since the military regime was set up - The performance was quite a success in the end. 17years ago. - In the end, Peter seemed quite happy and so did I. You also use since to say either when the last time was that something happened, or You use lastly to talk about the last of a series of people or things. how much time passes without something happening. If you are speaking on Friday and - Then I went through the bathroom and lastly the bed-sitting room. you say that you have not done something since Wednesday, or that it is two days since - Lastly he jabbed the knife hard into the trunk ofthe tree. you did something, you mean that the last time you did that thing was on Wednesday. You use last of all to emphasize that there is nobody or nothing else after the person or - Probably she hadn't touchedfood since breakfast. thing you mention. - It was a shamefully long time since either she or Tusker had been to church. - In rapid succession hisfriends’ faces appear and disappear; last of all he sees Lewis alive, living, lively Seidel’s maddening smile. Someone who is alive has not died and their Hfe continues. You use alive after a link - Last of all came the cat. verb like ‘be’, or occasionally after a noun. ago, before, for, since You do not use ‘alive’ in front of a noun. You use ago to connect a time in the past with the moment of speaking. If you are - She didn’t say whether he was still alive. speaking on Friday and you say that something happened two days ago, you mean that - I am the happiest man alive. it happened on Wednesday. A living person, animal, or plant has life and is different from someone who is dead or - The land was acquired by the University two years ago. something that does not have life. - I discovered afew days ago that Weiss was Houdini's real name. - or see living artists at their work. - Baboons, even the smaller living species, are veryformidable creatures. Thẩm Tâm Vy, August 20th, 2020 ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS - 07
2. Someone who is lively is active and enthusiastic. Behaviour and activities can also be - Altogether there must have been about twenty babies. described as lively. - Altogether I went back to her about seven times. - Before her marriage she had been lively and alert and carefree. - You will get £340 a week altogether. - The debate promises to be lively. You use all together to say that a group of people or things are together or do something together, and that none of them is missing. You can also talk about bringing alone, lonely, lone people all together if you bring everyone to a particular place. If someone is alone, there is nobody with them. If someone does something alone, - It had been so long since the days when we were all together – at tome, secure, nobody does it with them. They may be happy or sad to be alone. Note that you do not sheltered. use ‘alone’ in front of a noun. - Each organ depends on the other and all together make up the whole. - Again hefeels he is alone. - When we have enough, we pour it all together in a pot and heat it. - I quite like travelling alone, actually. - Students may be accommodated all together on a vast campus. If someone is lonely, they are sad that there is nobody with them or that they do not have any friends. anger, fury, rage - It will be so dull and lonely here without you. You feel anger when someone does something that is cruel or that frustrates you. You - We started it mainly with the aim of helping lonely people. can feel anger about things like insults or delays. If you talk about a lone person or thing, there is only one person or thing of that kind - Impatience is the first reaction against a setback and can soon turn to anger ifyou’re present, when you might expect there to be more. Note that lone is always used in front not careful. of a noun. - There was anger at the suffering inflicted by the bombing. - In an American suburban street a lone pedestrian is more conspicuous than a lone If you feel fury or rage, you have intense feelings of anger which are hard to control motorist. and can be violent You can also be ‘in a fury’ or ‘in a rage’. - Suddenly a lone figure came struggling out of the swamps. - I nearly smashed the phone in fury. - Thomas flew into a cold fury, which Fanny observed with terror. altogether, all together - So great was their rage that they began to destroy everything in sight. You use altogether as an adverb to emphasize that something has stopped or has been - In a rage I went to hỉs desk, took all his hooks and hurled them out of the window. done or finished completely. If you say that something stops altogether, you mean that it stops completely; if you say that you have given something up altogether, you mean annoyance, irritation that you no longer do it at all. You feel annoyance when someone does something that you do not like, or when you - Quite soon she stopped trembling altogether and began to look round at them. cannot do what you want to do. - This does not mean that people should go without breakfast altogether. - To his considerable annoyance, Francis did not accept the idea immediately. You can also use altogether to emphasize a quality in someone or something. If you - ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ Jimmie failed to keep the annoyance out of his voice. say that two things are altogether different, you mean that they are completely Irritation can be used with the same meaning as annoyance. However, it is more different. If you say that something is altogether more interesting, you mean that it is often used if something you do not like goes on for a long time. much more interesting, and if you say that something is altogether too slow, you mean - I still felt an increasing irritation as I watched her. that it is much too slow. - They remain a source of constant irritation to both mother and father. - Your sources of supply are altogether different from those ofa normal retail business. asleep, sleeping - What troubled me was altogether vaguer and deeper. You use asleep and sleeping to describe people when they sleep. You only use asleep You can also use altogether to sum up a situation you have been discussing and make after a link verb like ‘be’ or in the phrase ‘to fall asleep’. a final judgement. - Don’t make any noise. Guy’s asleep. - Altogether our playground is a good one. - It is good, too, for babies to get used to falling asleep in their own bed. - Altogether, caution and courage are necessary. When you use sleeping as an adjective, it comes in front of a noun. - Yes, it’s quite a pleasant place altogether. - The house wasfull of sleeping children. You also use altogether to show that an amount is a total. If you say that something - Ginny stood looking down at her sleeping mother. cost a hundred pounds altogether, you mean that the total cost was a hundred pounds; if you say that ten people were present altogether, you mean that there were a total of ten to be continued people present Thẩm Tâm Vy, August 20th, 2020 ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS - 07