If doing something is described as a piece of cake, it means it is easy to do.
Examples:
Changing the wheel on the car was a piece of cake – I was happy to help!
I don’t know what all the fuss was about – the exam was a piece of cake! I had half an hour to spare.
To put your feet up means to relax, especially by sitting with your feet supported above the ground.
Examples:
I like nothing better than putting my feet up after a hard day at work!
You work so hard. Come on, sit here and put your feet up!
If you gamble on something it means you do something risky in the hope of getting a good result.
Examples:
Don’t gamble on the weather being good for your party. I know you want a barbeque, but it could rain. I’d book a venue with a covered area.
I took a gamble on employing John, but it’s turned out that he’s great for our team.
Countable nouns are the names of separate objects, people, ideas etc which can be counted. They have plurals.
Examples are: dog, tree, girl, book, occasion and link
We can use numbers and the article a/an with countable nouns.
The articles a/an (the indefinite article) and the (the definite article) belong to a group of words called determiners. They normally go at the beginning of noun phrases.
Reporting verb is the verb which reports the speech.
Words showing nearness in direct speech are normally changed into words showing distance in indirect speech. The most common changes are given below. (още…)
To report a promise, hope or intention we use an appropriate reporting verb followed by a that-clause or a to-infinitive. (още…)
To report orders, requests and suggestions, we normally use a reporting verb like tell with (object) + to infinitive. (още…)
In reported questions the subject normally comes before the verb. It is not necessary to use do or did. Question marks are not used in reported questions. (още…)
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