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- Jump on the bandwagon means to adopt a popular activity, idea, or trend because many others are doing it.
- Example: Many companies jumped on the electric vehicle bandwagon after seeing its success.
Explanation
- The correct sentence is "Look, the sun is rising over the hills."
- دیکھو، سورج پہاڑیوں کے اوپر اٹھ رہا ہے۔
- "Is rising" is the present continuous tense, indicating the action is happening right now.
Explanation
- The correct sentence is "Whom can I trust, if not him?"
- میں کس پر بھروسہ کرسکتا ہوں، اگر نہیں؟
- "Him" is the correct object form of the pronoun after "if not."
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- If the weather had been nice yesterday, we would have gone to the zoo.
- اگر کل موسم اچھا ہوتا تو ہم چڑیا گھر میں جاتے۔
- This is a third conditional sentence, which refers to an unreal past condition and its hypothetical result.
- The correct structure is "would have + past participle", so "would have gone" is grammatically correct.
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- A pun is a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect.
- Example: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
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- A simile directly compares two things using "like" or "as" (e.g., "She is as fast as a cheetah").
- A metaphor makes an implicit comparison without using "like" or "as" (e.g., "She is a cheetah on the track").
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- Genealogy is the study of family history and lineage.
- It involves tracing ancestors and understanding family connections over generations.
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- John Fletcher is considered the successor of Shakespeare, collaborating with him on plays like Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
- After Shakespeare’s death, Fletcher became the chief playwright for the King’s Men.
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- J.L. Austin introduced the concept of speech acts, dividing them into locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.
- His work, How to Do Things with Words (1962), is foundational in speech act theory.
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- A Pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between speakers of different native languages.
- It has no native speakers.
- It is used for trade or interaction in multilingual settings.