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and Conjunction

— You use and to talk about two things at once. I like singing and reading. Mary and Jane went on a holiday together. — You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list. I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer. I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring. — And is used when you are putting two sentences together. She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left. — Used to show what happened after something else. The alarm went off and I woke up. — And is used to join certain numbers together. Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.

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now Preposition

— You use now when you want to say that something is true at this time. It is also used for things a short time in the future or a short time in the past. I had many problems before, but I'm OK now. What did you say just now? The English teacher is at the library now. — You use now at the beginning of a sentence to get people's attention. Now, I'd like to hear from other people too.

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for Preposition

— shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function This cake is for you. This is a net for catching fish. — For is used to show the reason for something He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.

for Subordinator

— For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive It's not good for you to be too relaxed.

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something Compound Determinative

— an unspecified (un- + specified) object. I'm going to wear something today. — an event. Isn't something going to happen? — a special object. You're really something!

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completely Adverb

— When something is completely some quality, it is absolutely that quality, in every way. The man was completely honest in his business. This is completely different from what people might believe. The discovery has given us a completely new way of looking at thing.

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different Adjective

— If two or more things are different, they are not like each other, not the same. The two things have two sizes, not both the same size; or they have two shapes, they don't both have one shape; or they each have a color, not just one color for both things; or they are not the like each other in some other way. The day and night are quite different. My brother's bike is different from mine.

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