When flipping through a magazine or delving into your favorite book, you pay most attention to the language items you don’t know or understand. It’s especially true for some long and intimidating words like “discombobulated” or “circumlocution” 🤯. Though there’s nothing inherently wrong with consulting a dictionary every now and then, this can be potentially harmful if practiced too much. “But why?”, you might ask. The answer is simple: focusing on the unknown items draws your attention away from how to use the words and structures you already know. Some minor details can just totally fly under your radar 🛸. Take some seemingly easy verbs like “take”, “get” or “take” which are used more than twice as frequently as the “hard words”. They can take different meanings depending on which words they follow. Pay attention to the details like that and you will progress faster 🚀
