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200+ Common Proverbs in English [with Meaning and Example]

Proverbs and sayings are popular nuggets of wisdom, often in circulation for centuries and even millenniums. This post covers more than 200 common proverbs, each of which is followed by meaning and use in an example sentence. If you’re looking…

200+ Common Idioms [With Meaning and Example]

An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning can’t be deduced directly from individual words in that phrase or expression. In other words, idiom is figurative language. Without further ado, here are 200+ popular idioms, each followed by its…

16 Subject-Verb Agreement Rules with Examples

This post contains a comprehensive list of rules that govern subject-verb agreement. (Note that my comments are enclosed in square brackets ([]) throughout this post.) Here are the 16 rules: Rule 1 Singular subject takes singular verb and plural subject…

What is Figurative Language? [8 Types]

The limited space in the post can’t do justice to eight tools of figurative language. If you want to learn them in detail, I would urge you to go through comprehensive posts on each, which have been linked to under…