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📙 Part 2: Describe a book you read that you found useful

Rory reveals the one grammar book that completely changed how he teaches. Find out why he thinks even the general public should read it and why his friends are now so sick to death of hearing about it!

Maria & Rory

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Creep in

phrasal verb — If mistakes creep in or creep into a piece of text, they are included despite efforts not to include them: A few mistakes always creep in during the editing process; to gradually start to be noticeable: Doubts began to creep into my mind about the likely success of the project.

In-depth

adj. — done carefully and in great detail: an in-depth report/interview/analysis

Vital

adj. — necessary for the success or continued existence of something; extremely important.

Outline

verb — to give the main facts about something: At the interview she outlined what I would be doing.

Determine

verb — to control or influence something directly, or to decide what will happen: Your health is determined in part by what you eat.

Benefit from

verb — to be helped by something or to help someone:

Sick to death of

idiom — annoyed about or bored with (someone or something) and unwilling to put up with them any longer; totally disgusted with someone or something.

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