This document contains summaries of the basic principles of English Home Language.
It is mainly focussed on Grade 7, but applicable throughout Highschool.
Summaries include punctuation, parts of speech, figures of speech, idioms, sound devices, figurative language, and prefixes and suffixes.
IDIOMS
A WIDELY USED SAYING OR EXPRESSION CONTAINING A FIGURATIV
LITERAL MEANING
Bite the bullet Break the ice To butter someone up
To endure something To end conflict or initiate To praise or flatter
difficult or unpleasant. friendship. someone excessively.
To give the cold Bee’s knees Pull out all the stops
shoulder
Excellence or perfection. To make a great effort to
Disregarding someone. achieve something.
, prefix + su
change the meaning of a word by putting some
word
prefix
comes before the root word is known
as a prefix (fixed before)
create new words: immigrate /
preoccupied
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