Today’s English
June 1st, 2017
History repeats itself! But you should not. What happened happens now. What happens now will happen again. Don’t you repeat drinking, eating the same food, going to the same place by the same vehicle on the same road? Who doesn't repeat the same mistake they already committed and vowed not to repeat? Do you speak the same word to the same person in the same situation after battling for the new and feel ashamed of the impotent vocabulary? Go for avant-garde English expressions to express the same ideas. For, creativity is born out of burning the carbon copy.
1. Normal: Have you completed the work?
Alternatives:
A. Be done with it? (Informal)
B. Haven’t you finished it off yet?
C. Is that all over?
D. When will you end up with this?
E. Don’t you wind up the work yet?
F. When will your work come to an end?
G. Is your work still on the go?
H. Have you got a lot to get through?
2. Normal: He died recently.
Alternatives:
A. He passed away not long ago.
B. He expired lately.
C. He kicked the bucket recently.
D. He breathed his last few days ago.
E. He is no more now.
F. He met his death recently.
G. He lost his life a couple of days before.
H. He went to his resting place a short while ago.
I. He bit the dust the other day. (Bit -past form of bite)
J. He is in the heaven now / he reached the heaven now.
K. He soul rests in peace now.
L. He went the other world a short time ago.
3. Normal : Do you like music?
Alternatives:
A. Are you interested in music?
B. Are you fond of music?
C. Do you love music?
D. Would you be keen on listening to songs?
E. I think, you adore music very much.
F. Do you look on music with favour?
G. Do you enjoy music?
H. Do you have a taste for jazz?
I. Would you like to take pleasure in album?
J. Do you have a passion for music?
K. Have you relished classical tunes?
"One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.
-“Sherlock Holmes “Arthur Conan Doyle
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