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resign
Verb
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If someone resigns from a job, they quit it.
He resigned his job when his fellow workers were attacked.
from
Preposition
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When something is from someone, the person gave or sent it.
I got a gift from my grandmother today.
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When someone is from a place, that's where they started.
I am Chinese. I come from Hunan province.
Sorry I'm late. I just came from school.
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You use from to talk about distances between thing in space or time.
Saturn is far from earth.
School is 5km from my home.
The year 2515 is a long time from now.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
cabinet
Noun
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A country's cabinet is the main group of politicians who work closely with the leader of the government.
Nearly all the cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition government are immigrants or the sons of immigrants.
He was senior businessman before he joined President Clinton's Cabinet as Treasury secretary.
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A cabinet is a piece of furniture used to keep things in.
He walked over to the filing cabinet, took out the file and put it on his desk.