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your
Pronoun
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Your things are things which belong to you.
Can I eat some of your ice-cream please?
phone
Noun
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A phone is a tool for speaking to people who are far away.
Can I borrow your phone? I need to call my friend.
The phones ringing. Can you answer it?
"Goodbye!" she said, and put the phone down.
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A phone is a smartphone.
This classroom does not allow students to use their phones during class.
phone
Verb
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If you contact somebody using a phone, you phone them.
Hey, I'll phone you tonight and we can decide what to do.
I phoned up my friend and asked her to come over at 8:00.
was
Verb
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A form of the verb be used to talk about yourself, or another person in the past.
I was singing in the shower.
Who was that girl you were talking to?
ringing
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noun
the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
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noun
(= ring, tintinnabulation)
the sound of a bell ringing
the distinctive ring of the church bell
the ringing of the telephone
the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells
— -E. A. Poe
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noun
(= plangency)
having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant