phrasal verb: run out (of)

Run out (of) means to have used up and have nothing left. In Spanish one might say ‘quedarse sin’ or ‘agotarse’. e.g. We have run out of coffee. We had better go to the supermarket and buy some. The car stopped because he had run out of petrol.

Good writing

This is a link to a lecture by Steven Pinker at the Royal Institution on the subject of good writing.

18 July is Nelson Mandela day

You can find out more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela I can also recommend an Oxford biography: http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/elt/general_content/global/readers/Nelson-Mandela-Factfile-Chapters-1-3.pdf?dm_i=1MVU,6WYLY,A189SL,RSK5M,1

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