English Lessons
“Mom, the faucet's dripping.”
Your son notices that there's water dripping into the sink in the kitchen. He tells you this.
“Did you turn it all the way off?”
Your son told you that the faucet is dripping. You want to know whether it's a problem with the faucet, or just that your son didn't completely turn it off. You ask this.
“Try to narrow down your choices through process of elimination.”
You're tutoring a child in math. You're giving him advice on how to answer multiple choice questions on a test, so you say this.
“I've been glued to the TV all week.”
There's been a huge news story going on this week. You've been really interested in that story, so you haven't been able to stop watching the news. Now you're talking to a friend about this news story, you use this phrase to explain how much you'v...
“There's been non-stop coverage of it on all the news networks.”
There's a huge news story that's been going on. TV channels keep discussing it again and again. You're talking to a friend in another country about this news story, and you say this to describe how often it's being shown.
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