Mr. Adnan Subih

Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d :

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*He is a ___ boy.*

A) clever
B) cleverly
C) cleverest
D) cleverness

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📝 Too vs Also vs As well

💡 What’s the difference?

✅ Too → usually used at the end of a sentence
✅ Also → usually used before the main verb
✅ As well → usually used at the end (more formal than “too”)

📌 Examples (Too):
➡️ I like pizza too. 🍕
➡️ She is coming too. 🚶‍♀️

📌 Examples (Also):
➡️ I also like pizza. 🍕
➡️ She also speaks French. 🇫🇷

📌 Examples (As well):
➡️ He plays cricket as well. 🏏
➡️ I want to join as well. 🙋‍♂️

🎯 Quick Trick:
🔚 End of sentence → Too / As well
📍 Before main verb → Also

❓ Confusing Question:
👉 She ___ sings beautifully, and her sister sings well ___.

A) too, also
B) also, too
C) as well, also
D) too, as well

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💬 1️⃣ I’m running late.
➡ I will arrive late.

💬 2️⃣ Never mind.
➡ Forget about it.

💬 3️⃣ That’s enough.
➡ No more is needed.

💬 4️⃣ I’m starving.
➡ I am very hungry.

💬 5️⃣ Don’t give up.
➡ Keep trying.

💬 6️⃣ It’s up to you.
➡ You can decide.

💬 7️⃣ I’m proud of you.
➡ You did very well.

💬 8️⃣ Stay in touch.
➡ Keep contacting me.

💬 9️⃣ I’m used to it.
➡ It feels normal to me now.

💬 🔟 I hope so.
➡ I wish it happens.

🌟 Practice
Daily Use English Phrases – At the Restaurant 🍕🍔

💬 1️⃣ Can I see the menu?
➡ Please show me the food list.

💬 2️⃣ I’d like to order.
➡ I want to order food.

💬 3️⃣ What do you recommend?
➡ Which dish is good here?

💬 4️⃣ Make it spicy.
➡ Add more spice to it.

💬 5️⃣ Can I get some water?
➡ Please bring water.

💬 6️⃣ The food is delicious.
➡ The food tastes very good.

💬 7️⃣ I’m full.
➡ I have eaten enough.

💬 8️⃣ Pack this, please.
➡ Please make it a takeaway.

💬 9️⃣ Can we have the bill?
➡ Please bring the payment bill.

💬 🔟 Keep the change.
➡ You can keep the extra money.

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✅ Why not “have completed” or “had completed”?

👉 “Yesterday, last year, ago” etc. show a finished past time, so we use Past Simple (V2).

✔️ I completed my work yesterday.
✔️ She moved to Delhi last year.
✔️ He called me two days ago.

❌ have completed → not used with:
👉 yesterday / last year / ago

❌ had completed → used only when there are two past actions

✔️ I had completed my work before he arrived.

🎯 Quick Trick:
👉 Yesterday / Last year / Ago → Past Simple
👉 Two past actions → Past Perfect

📝 Quick Quiz 👇

👉 Two months ago, they ______ a new business.

A. have started
B. started
C.was starting

The Pearl by John Steinbeck: A Small Story with a Terrifying Truth

Published in 1947, The Pearl by John Steinbeck may look like a simple, short novel, but beneath its quiet surface lies one of the most powerful warnings in modern literature. Inspired by an old Mexican folktale, Steinbeck transforms a humble story into something haunting, philosophical, and painfully human — a story about hope, greed, love, and the dangerous price of dreams.

At the center of the novel is Kino, a poor pearl diver living with his wife Juana and their infant son Coyotito in a small coastal village. Their lives are difficult but peaceful, shaped by poverty yet held together by love and dignity. Everything changes when Kino discovers an enormous pearl — “the Pearl of the World” — after his son is stung by a scorpion and denied proper medical treatment because the family is too poor. Suddenly, the pearl seems like salvation. Kino dreams of education for his son, marriage in a church, new clothes, and freedom from suffering. For the first time, hope enters his life like sunlight.

But Steinbeck slowly turns hope into something darker. Instead of bringing happiness, the pearl awakens greed, violence, jealousy, and cruelty in everyone around Kino. Traders cheat him, strangers watch him with hidden intentions, and even his own heart begins to harden. The pearl, once beautiful, becomes almost cursed — not because it changes the world, but because it reveals what people truly are when money enters their lives. Steinbeck asks a painful question: Do we own wealth, or does wealth eventually own us?

What makes The Pearl unforgettable is its simplicity. Steinbeck writes with the clarity of a fable, yet every sentence feels heavy with meaning. The sea, the songs Kino hears in his mind, the pearl itself — all become symbols of fear, hope, temptation, and fate. Though the novel is short, its emotional impact lingers long after the final page. It reminds us that sometimes the things we desire most carry hidden dangers, and that innocence can be lost not only through evil, but through ambition itself.

In the end, The Pearl is not simply about a pearl. It is about human longing — that fragile belief that one miracle can fix an entire life. But Steinbeck leaves us wondering: Was Kino destroyed by the pearl, or by the dream he placed inside it?